A Win Is A Win But….
Can’t rely on your pitching staff to shut teams out to win games. On the cusp of June 1, who are the obvious culprits? Wade is #1. Bailey and Adames are right behind him. This Adames thing is irritating. He’s never going to hit for average but 5 bombs? In 220 at bats? What the fuck man?
Anyway, that’s 3 of your 9 hitters and it’s not like the other 6 are threatening to win a triple crown. They just look like they are compared to Wade, Bailey and Adames…..
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Why bring in now a guy who doesn’t strike people out, with the bags loaded? And, the wacky pop grounder…
Rogers K rate per 9 of 8.8 per B/R is actually higher than Walker Miller and Doval. Seriously.
Was surprised Walker was in there early though. guess no Rodriguez today.
Wow, sweating heavily there. Rogers playing with fire, got it done with minimal damage.
Head scratcher, but Rogers did get it done. Giants doing some weird things, but destined to win this game (it seems).
I think Melvin felt he had to use Walker early to put out the fire when Birdie ran out of gas. That move set up the Hicks appearance later. If Hicks had handed out those walks then with two on, it would have been brutal, so probably a good decision by Melvin. I’m guessing he had to bring in Hicks because Rodriguez isn’t available or at least won’t be called upon unless dire situation arises.
Rodgers gets out of Hicks mess pretty good overall..
From what I’ve heard in Buster and Minasian interviews, they said the equivalent that Hicks was not thrilled being busted down to a Pen member. Sounded much like winking that he’s very pissed off. He just pitched like his head is not in a good place…
The Taylor Made DP by Chapman kills another inning!
When’s the last time Miller had a 1-2-3 ?
Shouldn’t Lee be in for defense?
That bullpen mound must really be screwed up.
Whew.
Caramba, more torture.
Geez nothing easy but Momma Rosa helped his son get out of it!Gawd let’s get another run are 2 please!!
What’s the number 4 patch suppose to mean? Giants 4 run total?
Not sure, Gehrig day maybe?
Yes, it’s for ALS awareness. When I saw the Mets wearing it earlier today, my first thought was that Ron Swoboda had died…
Wish we had Lou Gehrig at 1st base..
I’d settle for Lou Klimchock…
Or Wally Pipp
Take away Matos HR and the Giants hitting/scoring today is the usual crap. Although Adames actually managed a bloop hit…
Yeah the GIDP off cutter!
One of the best DPs I have seen from Adames and Fitz all season.
Adames did fire a cannon to first on that DP. He was determined.
He does have an arm. Could see him in the OF in a few years.
Gad there’s torture and then there’s Pit and Pendulum.
Series win!
It’ll be a nice flight home.
Momma Mia Rosa her son saved 2 games!Get her on the plane to Oracle
Ugly as usual but Matos had a nice day and they fly home happy with a W!!
Lol Loo looks like the plane in Major League!!
Gmen 4-5 road trip – very good road trip by all measures, but could have been better if hitting had come alive. Pitching was lights out most, if not all of this 9 game trip.
Doval only threw 9 strikes out of 21 pitches. idk what Giants were so scared of. Guys not named Xavier Edwards were 4-30.
Maybe Ramos likes leadoff–he leads team in OB (.360) after getting on 3 times today.
Next highest Chapman .358
Yaz .338 (3-38 slump)
Fitz .328.
Last time I looked on B/R Giants bottom 3-4 NL for OB.
Stats tell the whole story of the Giants Offensive woes of all 30 teams and of course the Dogpile is number 1 are 2 in every category!
Giants
OPS 24th .684
Average 25th .233
HR’s 21th 57
RBI’s 17th .237
Runs 16th .248
Hits 24th .454
Without outstanding overall pitching this team would of been cooked already..
Encarnacion in RF today in Sac: 1-3 scored 1 drove in 1. 1 BB 1 K. small sample size but BA .348 OPS 1.160
Luciano in LF 0-4 struck out twice . BA .212 OPS .729
McCray CF 0-5 struck out 3 times BA .240 OPS .666
?: what would happen if he (Encarnacion) were to play OF for Giants?
That was Don Mincher not Rich Rollins, book it…
Hicks should’ve been traded in the offseason, they don’t need him and he just clogs things up. You don’t go ahead and make a reliever a starter just because he wants to be a starter, that was never gonna work. Somebody still might trade for him, fireballers are always marketable to some extent.
I’m still eagerly awaiting the next Luciano appearance…. haha.
yeah Hicks is still throwing 100 mph and Luciano has mashed some 450+ ft HRs this year — however, ….
Encarnacion can play 1st right?
some of his rehab games he’s been at 1B.
My guess is that will activate Encarnacion today and ship Koss to Sac to make room on the roster..
fwiw Padres having season like the Giants: they score same amount of runs and have really good pitching. this despite highly paid guys like Tatis Jr. (who does hit leadoff) Machado Cronenworth Bogaerts, plus batting champ Arraez and top rookie Jackson Merrill. should be fun series.
Harrison will get another start this week in place of Verlander.
saw a tweet that Auerbach the speedy catcher utility guy who had an entertaining ST couple years back was released by Sac. Room for Eldridge? Also after missing some games Luciano was back last night as Willie D noted but he wasn’t playing 1B. Thank the lard.
Giants release 1B Jake Lamb from Sac 🐑 plenty of space to move up Eldridge now Xoot..
yeah saw that too. Room for koss and Eldridge. I particularly liked Auerbach.
Jerar mlb rehab move wouldn’t open a spot.
iirc.
Padres DH and part time LF Gavin sheets collided with wall and left game with injuries to hip and possible concussion. 11 HRs for them so far, while their other LFs have struggled–another team looking for OF help!
Sheets also leads their team in rbis with 34 and has OPS of .817.
Xoot are anyone else what do you think of bringing up Catcher Andrew Kinzer from Sac over Huff? He’s hitting .383 OPS1.032 knocked in 5 runs in his Rivercats debut and has close to 900 AB’s in Majors mostly with Cardinals, has more power then Huff and experience.Just a thought?
good idea although I think Ray likes to pitch to Huff. And he’s out of options.
Yeah I forgot about that Ray/Huff connection,reminds me of Braves P Greg Maddux only wanted Eddie Perez catching over Starting Catcher Javy Lopez..
Reading column by Dennis Lin in TA, SD sound so much like SF. Started season 14-3, since then 19-21. They put 21 spot on god awful Rockies in 1 game and “since then ranked last in Majors for OPS and third to last in runs per game.” Sheets btw had 6 HRs/12 rbis in that stretch.
I can’t wait for Baggarly to get back. I think he said as he left that it’d be mid summer. He’d be all over these peculiar circumstances.
“no move at least not yet” Pavs. Wade at 1B tonight.
https://x.com/pavlovicnbcs/status/1929664620794728738?s=46&t=k0FDC_rVBvlG86Y-OHTiNQ
now shea says matos down Jerar up.
Brutal! not even 3 run bomb and a nice grab in deep CF saved him. Any way Ramos could handle RF at Oracle with Encarnacion in LF with Lee in CF?
yeah or Yaz in CF to spell Lee.
Yep Jerar called up 3Run Homer Matos sent down..Not sure I get this move keeping Koss over Matos whatever And freaking Melvin still batting Fitzgerald 9th is mind boggling to me….
And yet the confirmed LU has no Encarncion with Wade at 1st still And Fitz batting 9th with Bailey 8th and Wade 7th, gawd I swear Melvin just doesn’t get it..
Might be different vs. LHP.
Padres have their own Wade, tyler playing LF. Career .220 hitter. this year slash line .246/.350/.290. Takes lot of walks, 0 HRs 1 2b 1 3b in 69 ABs so far…minus WAR guy.
That guy is Babe Ruth compared to Wade’s season to-date line of shame:
.167/.271/.271
The same last two numbers is not a typo.
Except the Padres don’t have a starting LHP Willied so Wade’s leash stays on for now..
I think its OK to send Matos down. He wasn’t getting enough play, just dying on the vine after a good offseason in Winter Ball and a good Spring Training. Giants are jacking him around too much, but he’s gotta play somewhere. Meanwhile, Giants playing a “Waiting for [Wade] Hits” game, keeping the guy around. Because he’s a lefty? Is it better to have a shitty LH bat in the lineup just to have a LH bat to face RHPs, or better to have a fair to decent RH bat instead?
Speaking of jacking guys around — the Giants putting Luciano at first in Sac is IMO kinda the last straw in his mismanagement. What is this, 6 years+ into his stint in the Giants farm system? And, NOW they’re trying him at 1b? After years at SS, after an OF effort, now 1B? He can hit — maybe they won’t re-sign Wilmer and give him a shot at the next DH. He’s got no more positions to try…
Both Pads and SF pretty much leaking oil, not hitting much, coming into this series. Sets up like a split 2-2 …
The reality is that Matos, Wisely, McCray, Meckler, Luciano, Basabe, etc. (all on the Giants 40 man roster), will never stick in the majors . . . Consequently, the River Cats fill ONE role, to provide a “Hail Mary” player for Giants players injured or doing worse than they are, e.g., Wade.
To date, none of these guys have shown they can play consistently in the show. We will really be in trouble (like last year) if we have to replace a catcher. We have none in reserve, besides Huff and Bailey, i.e., we’ll do what we did last year, where we picked up Murphy off of some other team’s minor league roster (forgot which team he played for).
Bowker Gang redux?
Mac, not certain they are that good. lqtm
Yeah, now and then a team has a player who hits well but not great anywhere in the field, and they try and try to find a position for him just to get his bat into the lineup. Someone in the FO sees something in Unlucky Luci; maybe this last shot will be the one. Probably not. And yes, Steve, I’ve seen some articles recently saying that actually the Giants bench is a huge weakness, stocked with mediocre “just guys”…
I seriously think that’s why they retain Wade . . . Sans a trade for a 1b player, NO ONE on the River Cats can do better. It’s embarrassing.
Context matters. The Padres just sent up Tatis Jr., certified AS, Arraez 3 time BA champ, and Machado with 349 career bombs/.827 OPS over 14 years. All 3 head and shoulders above just about everyone in Giants uniform.
And yet they are unable to score more runs than the Giants this season. Because just like SF, most of the roster isn’t hitting.
Which is exactly why the Giants need to bolster their lineup now, while they’re within a game of the Pads and they’re not hitting either…. That probably won’t remain the case all season…
Giants would take any of those guys in heartbeat to play RF 1b and DH in Machado’s case.
They win with their pitching, just like Giants do, and have exact same number of Ws.
More appropriately, they are now winning with pitching, just like the Giants do, with the expectation that their entire squad will be hitting much, much better by August and September. I can’t confidently say that about our squad. Equally important, that GM has a history of making significant moves at the trade deadline to improve his squad.
Here’s another example, the Dodgers have the best pitching staff money can buy, but they are doing poorly, with many starters and relievers injured . . . Yet, do you think this team is going to remain that way the entire season? Me? I don’t think so. In the meantime, the Bums have additional “levers” to pull, such as their outstanding hitting. That’s why they are in 1st.
Hey, I hope the Giants can counter these guys moves with moves of their own. We’ll see.
Still think catcher Sac Andrew Kinzer would be better at catcher then Sam Huff( yeah Ray’s personal catcher who cares) he has plenty of big league experience with Cardinals mostly but I guess if Xoot is right that he has no options to Sac he sticks..
Biggest Blunder by Farhan is signing Catcher Tom Murphy (34 now)who’s cooked more then Christmas Vacation’s Turkey and their paying this chump and he’s thrilled to get 4M doing absolutely nothing and can’t buy him out till next year at 250K..
I don’t even remember the last time they had a decent backup catcher. Shoulda kept Bart, then they’d have 2 co-catchers, which with Bailey, is what they need….
Agree. Snarkk has been saying this for the last 12 months. A big blunder by the Gmen.
Agree AK . . . See Paul’s post below regarding Bart – That was a Zaidi fuck up too.
Bailey !! Nice throw.
Yeah way to get out of it.
And that’s why Bailey will always be the catcher, hitting are not he’s the best in the game throwing out runners! Without that Stella play the Padres have a run..
oh Willy.
are we lucky.
Yep . . . and the Pads are potentially cooked.
Not that I want an injury but that’s one way to get out of the LU for awhile if Wade’s fractured a finger..
Can’t believe Adames was called safe on that challenge..
Baseloaded no outs , oh joy do they score???
Wow, even Adames thought he was out.
oh man.
Fitz and Ramos can’t get ball out of the IF.
Aaargh.
No outs. Bases loaded. Pffftt
And of course they don’t score!! Unbelievable but Believable it’s Giants baseball!!
Man this team is a hard team root for at times. kat I’m with you:)
NEVER wish an injury on someone but if Wade was a little more hurt without a fracture??,,,,
Hey Kruk the Giants opening up a can of offense lol
Their can is SPAM (Scoring Players A Mystery)
Webb getting Cained again:( Go Giants! Encarnacion with a walkoff!
well, something to be said for consistency, but in this case, nothing good. 7 innings, 3 hits. 1-6 RISP — guess we moved someone over from 2nd to 3rd, once upon a time. And another able caining of Webb: the predictability of unpredictability.
Pfffttt redux.
Well I do have to say neither team is giving in, both sides showing how well a good pitching staff can perform.Webb’s been fantastic and just praying they can get a run so he doesn’t get Cained!Just a great no scoring game so far that we’re used too unfortunately..
GLad I]m not watching. Reading the comments is nearly as painful tho!
Webb .. amazing, what a stud.
Webb and Ray, pretty darned good R/L combo at the top of the rotation.
Well, now i am watching. Is Webb still on the line for the win?
Not anymore he got Cained again after an outstanding performance, but when your team doesn’t score you can’t win..
Just wow. Games like this is when Bummie would hit a home run to get the win.
I didn’t realize G’s haven’t beaten SD yet this season. This game is sure set up for a great walk off….
Soo Encarnacion looked like he should go back to minors. Schmidt gets 3 balls a mile out of the strike zone and swings and misses the 4th in a row by a foot. Giving away a strike for free not the best. I literally laughed out loud when he swung and missed!! No way we score in this game. Our best hope was another wild pitch. Hope i am wrong but man it’s hard to see us getting 2 hits in a row…
LULZ!
Randy Rod! (so to speak) he ain’t shooting blanks!