Bochy Swept?
So of COURSE we are going for a sweep against the defending World Series champs in their yard. That makes perfect sense.
What a moment this must have been for Jayson Werth. I bet he cared more in that moment about winning that race than he did when he won his World Series. If you love horse racing as I do (and Loo does) you just KNOW.
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Yeah it was cool they talked him post race. Luis Saez is awesome. Prat and Baffert won Met Mile, right?
Gausman pitched first 9 inning complete game shutout of his career vs. A’s, gave up 5 hits 109 pitches. Said. “…if I get through 7 let me go. I’ll go to 120 if you need me to.”
Wondered if in different era Webb could have done that Friday, but maybe better he didn’t.
no doubt about Werth. Surprising how Rangers have taken their sophomore year with Boch off. State of the Giants this season is that we can beat up in the bad teams stay near .500 and generally look like like a minor league team against the superior MLB teams. Just who we are and I’m ready to turn the page on Farhan after this season.
Didn’t get a chance to log on yesterday. I know the Doctors memorial service must have been a great time to remember for all.
As far as baseball goes I am totally disgusted with the product we are putting on the field. I don’t care that most other teams are below the .500 mark. I only care about the Giants. We do have a couple of bright spots for our future but overall we suck.
my horse Seize the Grey spring a leak. Knew it was not good staying in front for the first 3/4 of the race…
sprung lol
@Flav/Loo: you guys like Paul LoDuca? Always thought he was just another annoying Dodger as player but seems very knowledgeable about horse racing. the FS1 or 2 coverage of Saratoga is fun to watch for most part.
he’s fine, he doesn’t bother me. I don’t watch the commentators for their comments, they rarely tell me something I don’t know. As you know I am partial to Andie and Britney but that’s for other reasons. 🙂
Britney is so not my type. I’m sure it’s mutual…
Over Flaca Acacia for sure. I just like to hear opinions of why they like certain horse and how they base betting strategy though I don’t gamble. Simon Bray probably my favorite.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/12/sports/baseball/12shea.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Used to see him at Belmont when he was a Met. Never said a word to him. He’s just another horse racing degenerate. He knows his stuff but Flavor is 20x the better handicapper. LoDuca did make the best catch of a foul pop I ever saw by a catcher. He caused a little stir here in his playing days for complaining about Latin ballplayers using the language barrier as a phony excuse to dodge the post game media iirc…
I remember that catch, pretty sure he was with Dodgers vs. Giants.
I had a feeling you might!
20X! That’s high praise my man, thank you. Yeah I don’t listen to the commentators *picks except to draw a line through them
https://www.nydailynews.com/2007/06/30/lo-duca-nothing-i-said-was-racial/
Lo Duca was the guy who thanked his HGH dealer on Dodger stationary. Maybe not the sharpest tool in the tool box.
😂He looks so narrow on TV since his playing days ended…
More talk of bringing in the fences (again) at Snoracle from Scott O. Greggie brings it up as the reason we don;t attract hitters.
SanDog would do that job himself if they let him…
Yes he would. Better idea than Manfred juicing ball again imo.
After the Yankees series, I wanted the fences pushed back.
“Break Even” crack was the defining moment for Stud players coming here along with Posey ripping SF crime, homelessness,crack dealer’s, restaurants,retail all closing up other then that a fine place to visit for a day if your car doesn’t get broken into ..
Posey didn’t rip SF. He was saying that could be the perception of some players. Especially if all they watch for news is Fox News. Ripping SF is a favorite activity of conservative media.
So a smart TV is needed for today’s game. Well, my TV is ignorant and refuses to learn anything, and thinks the moon landings were faked.
Colin Cowherd isn’t having it.
“Christian Laettner made the Dream Team. Caitlin Clark can’t make the women’s Olympic basketball team? What mostly pays for the Olympics — oh wait — revenue generated from broadcasting partners. As in TV. As in Caitlin is TV GOLD. Opportunity wasted.”
I’ll bet you dollars to dunking donuts NBC goes Tanya Harding on someone’s kneecap.
Not at today’s prices…
Nope opportunity saved for more deserving player. there are over 100 players in WNBA. Caitlyn Clark is NOT one of the best 12 in the game lol. As for Laettner he never played meaningful minutes and was well recognized token college pick who clearly didn’t belong with that group of HOFers. Not good analogy.
Did they paint the canoe maroon and white after Dornoch won the “Belmont”?
This one gets a bigger asterisk than the Dodgers last championship.
Steal of home off double steal, that just shouldn’t happen.
Delayed steal of home. Rangers get 3 in. Winn gets 3 Ks but gives up 2 singles, 1 walk and a HBP (Simien in the head), hell of a first inning.
2nd not much better.
Not sure if he’ll go 3 innings today.
Semien payback, 2 run jack.
Pavs: “If you have not been able to locate this game on your TV, you’re not missing out.” yikes 5-0 Texas.
Yeah glad I can’t see it.These managers are all the same on getaway games when they start the white flag Lu.Guess the Giants feel good enough taking 2of 3 instead of keeping a possible 4 game winning streak alive..
Well, looks like the Boch Sweep may not happen, but you never know, maybe there’s a comeback still possible.
Giants are a poor defensive team, again. Despite the FO’s promises to really improve the D. The team ranks near the MLB bottom in most defensive stat categories. It’s not just the physical errors, it’s things like being terrible at keeping runners checked at first. All the other mental mistakes that really don’t show in the states, the frequent inability, apparently, to anticipate plays required in given situations…
That’s the ‘funny’ thing about the sea change Melvin and the new coaching staff was supposed to provide. A return to fundamentals. A baseball guy instead of an analytics guy.
Hard to say this team is worse than last year’s (it isn’t) but it isn’t playing well at all with pretty much the same problems. Shoddy defense, inept baserunning, throwing to the wrong base, no speed, no power, spotting hitting.
Greggie had his fall guy all prepped and ready to be dropped on his sword by the end of last season, and all they have proven is that it really wasn’t Kapler’s fault that the team is mired in mediocrity. He’s no Leo Durocher, but he got more out of a bad lineup than BoMel is getting out of this one.
This of course leads to the front office and their inability to go after big name guys. If they haven’t figured it out by now, they need to overpay. Shit, look at Chick Correa. Sure glad we dodged that bullet. Not. Just the errors he wouldn’t have made would give the Giants 4 games. Plus he can hit.
Yaz makes it 5-2.
I love Keaton Winn. Anyone who can strike out 7 dudes in 4 innings, especially a line up that’s stacked like the Rangers, has a place in my pitching rotation. Hopefully he can take another step with help from his coaches.
Agreed. He has great stuff.
Aesthetics aside, the shift ban looking largely irrelevant again.
Exactly. When camera shows IF defense vs. RHs, what is different beside all of them with feet on dirt? The 2b is a step from behind right behind bag, if that. Funny how many “balls hit up the middle that aren’t a hit anymore” still aren’t.
Baseball Prospectus piece found more LH hits in total 23 season. And the return to old timey balance did tend to soothe cranks rankled by the free runner, the clock, the big bases, and loss of the art of the interminable pickoff battle. (But for the runner, of course, good changes all.)
It has done wonders for the Giants.
I’m not so sure about the new baseline and base blocking rules.
I bet the ban on the rover has helped LaMonte a bit.
Undoubtedly, it’s had some impact. I read the BP piece. Like Chuck’s portentous 67%, 750 extra hits is a big number, but translates to one extra hit, a single, for every 3 games across all of baseball. On top of that, 250 of those were to right handed batters, who weren’t as affected by the shift to begin with, especially given the finding that line drives were the biggest net for lefties (RHers obviously were not subject to the rover.) I just looked at BABIP for this year, which is back down to .287 after returning to “historical norms” in 23.
But, yes, it made fans happy.
Before he went down Lamonte’s BABIP was .436. Another isolated big number, of course, but LEGIT BIG. If I check his spray charts I’m sure I’ll see a ton of his hits landing right where the rover would’ve been. Well, not real sure. But that would be aesthetically pleasing, too.
I did look. Lamonte is less of a pull hitter than I thought. Really too bad he’s not at the top of the line up with Ramos right now.
A sublime level of aesthetic potential there, just out of reach.
That’s patently stupid. You are rewarding players for possibly getting drilled in the back of the head. A Doval fastball to the neck would be a bit painful.
The base thing is just weird. Makes no sense.
Pence doing the Ranger broadcast. Forgot Pence played for Boch in 2019.
No. Pence was an AS for Texas in 19.
oh yeah. Farhan was here in 2019 with Bochy.
Just like 2010, Giants win 2 of 3 in Arlington.
Anything on Chapman? That fall he took trying to snag bloop in foul territory in 9th yesterday had K n K worried iirc.
Baggs said Chapman was resting with hamstring soreness.
Guess I’m the only one not seeing it about Keaton Winn?
So what if strikes out 7 Rangers while giving up 7 earned runs in 4 1/3 innings ,6 hits,2walks .Now 3-7 with an ERA sitting at 7.00.Last 4 starts since May4th 24 runs allowed that’s a fast track to Sac soon imo ..
Didn’t see today, wonder if SP isn’t role he’s best suited for, at least at present. Coming in he’d only thrown 42 innings this year for Giants, about same as last year. BBs are up/Ks down.
I could see him in the pen. Pence said the Giants were trying to keep him around 60 pitches right now, I think he had 20 in the 1st inning.
When you hit their leadoff guy in the head on your 1st pitch, ya kinda know it isn’t going to be smooth sailing.
Ah thanks. I think he only went 3 innings or so in 1 rehab start.
He was pitching well his first 6 starts before the arm problems cropped up. I recall the fastball velocity dropping when he was torched prior to the IL.
Shit Holmes, he just got off the IL. Striking out 7 in 4 innings shows you have great stuff. I think he just needs a tweak or two and he’ll be one of our best starting pitchers.
I still think the Giants FO should find a way to pilfer Clevelands scouting dept.
retweet from Slusser: interesting take on Caitlinmania. https://x.com/marisa_ingemi/status/1799925902312378387?s=46&t=k0FDC_rVBvlG86Y-OHTiNQ
Oy, Dodgers fan with broom on her phone.
They can do annoying from 3000 miles away.
Howinell do Dodgers get rebirth of Jason Heyward last year and Teoscar Hernandez this year?
Is it much better when the yanks take the lead?
That was pretty cool. Glasnow had K’d Stanton w beauty of slider then got blasted by Trent Grisham.
Not much, but yes it is.
Teoscar Hernandez OPS had declined for 3 straight seasons from high of .919 (50 games 2020) to .741 with Seattle last season. This year OPS has risen over 100 points and slugging % has gone from .435 to over .500. Walks are up Ks down ISO and HR % all up as well.
Christine Brennan of USA Today disagrees with the decision to leave Clark off the Olympic team.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/brennan/2024/06/08/caitlin-clark-olympic-decision-usa-basketball/74028245007/
lol. That hack called for Bonds to be stripped of his records after his conviction for grand jury confusion. She didn’t bother to wait for his vindication on appeal. She’s always at best suspect.
I see that after that gaffe she turned to campaigning against Bonds’s slim HOF chances. Vile predatory sensationalism is her profession. She’s not a journalist.
I couldn’t get through the cliched thicket of false dichotomies in her first paragraph. She’s terrible.
It’s a good column. She makes her point well. People can disagree with it, which is fine; but she presents her side of the argument well.
It’s mindless. Her “argument” is nothing but hyperbolic supposition. If Clark goes to Paris this great change will occur, and this great change will occur, and this–ad nauseam. It’s the flip side of her vicious hyperbolic attacks on Bonds and just as irresponsible. She’s a hack.
I’m not really interested in the Olympic decision. I don’t think Clark’s supporters are necessarily wrong. But Caitlinmania is stupid mob frenzy and opportunists like Brennan feasting off it are frauds.
There is also a column in USA rag that supports decision to leave her off team, says she shouldn’t be a “show pony” and needs the rest. Xoot is right the cult of Clarkmania that thought she would just walk into the WNBA directly from college and do well is naive and misinformed at best and mostly ignorant of the wealth of talented players already in the league competing. Geno Auriemma called them “delusional.”
Even if most of rest of country hasn’t watched, the league has a 20 year history of championship dynamic players and there are at least 2 Olympic teams worth of them playing right now, vets that have played and won at Olympic level. Women’s team hasn’t lost a game in Olympics since 1992 and the pool of talent is quite excellent. I watch Clark play often but on merit alone she does not deserve to be there and I think it’s a slap in face to those that do to think otherwise. If people don’t want to watch cuz she isn’t there, their loss.
Judge is doin’ his thing.
Fuck Boston.
Still and all, they are playing pretty good on the defensive side.
What an awful turnover doan 8, and just like that it’s down 14.
The beautiful Celtic block that turned the ending was really a double foul. Dallas deserved better.
Yankee Evil Empire defeats the Dodger Evil Empire.
Watching LA isn’t gonna bear fruit. We need to watch the 8 middling teams in the mix. The Doigs, Brewers, Braves and Phillies are pretty much out of our reach. The Marlins and Rox are DOA.
It’s the Nats, Mets (barely), Reds, Cubs, Cards, Pirates, Pads, and D-Bags that are our competition for those last 2 spots.
Given the amount of teams and the schedule, it doesn’t look like any of these teams will be running away. So the front office will get another opportunity to do . . . .
What?
I’m sure they’ll pull out the “we will get all our hurt guys on the team, so that’s just like making a deal!”
Whoopie.
Bill Plaschke isn’t having it either.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2024-06-08/caitlin-clark-left-off-the-team-usa-roster-paris-olympics
“Clark, the greatest scorer in college basketball history and a decent WNBA rookie, has been cut.”
A decent rookie stealing the spotlight or a team of 12 vets who’ve worked through tough years to get their due–which you want? I’ll probably watch some of the Paris games just to see the players more worthy, at this point, than Clark.
Yeah, 7 teams in the NL with records of 1, 2, 3, or 4 games under .500, and G’s right there holding one of the WC spots. I’m fine with the 1st half of the season being “finding their way” and setting up for a more solid, consistent 2nd half. Likely that one or two of those teams break out of mediocrity, but no reason Giants can’t and won’t be right there too.
Nice take. Snell and Ray are good bets to determine if we’re all content by October.
Yeah, Hard to know what to expect from Ray, so might as well hope big. I also still think Snell will put it together, his stuff is just too good when he’s harnessing it….
I just hope we’re all continent by October…
Not super caught up in it, but the Clark Olympics imbroglio reminds me of one of those classic “Do you want to be right or do you want to succeed?” decision points. Success not meaning a gold medal.