Our Pitching Is Awesome
It would be easy to continue to be negative about this team but we really should stop to appreciate how awesome this pitching has been.
Doval is a little like our fucking kicker, Jake Moody. Like, even if he gets it going again, as soon as he begins one of his predictable meltdowns it’s very easy to want him out of his role. There’s just no margin for error for either of those dudes.
And that’s why neither of them should have the jobs they have. Cut Moody and put Doval back in his set up role. He seems to be ok at that.
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So Rodriguez is next man up?
Walker isn’t really doing well either.
Moody still has some rope left. After they ‘rushed him back too early.’
They did get another kicker for competition.
Sure. But my point is that even if Moody starts off hot as soon as he falls into one of his miss-streaks everyone will freak out. It will get in his head. Both he and Doval have set this up so they have to be perfect or it’s like “Fuck this guy, here we go again!”
Well, they all get paid a king’s ransom to do their jobs. If he can’t cut it then he gets cut. True for all of them. They either play through their issues or they fall off their teams.
And yeah, it’s great to celebrate the pitching, but there is no margin of error for ANYONE on this pitching staff. Our last 2 games saw the starters give up 0 runs in 15 innings and they lost both games. Our last 12 games, the team era is like 1.60 or something. And we aren’t winning.
https://x.com/BontaHill/status/1930119073884713112
Why would anyone name their kid Bonta?
Didn’t like this guy on warriors pregame/halftime et al…why would Giants hire him? btw, last weekend iirc Laura Britt did a show with her hair straight and looked fabulous.
If the hitting was just a little bit better, the pitching staff, maybe even Doval, would be able to “exhale” – where they don’t have to be freakin’ near perfect.
I never heard of Chris Van Cuyk, but he definitely coasted through this one…
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BRO/BRO195205210.shtml
No kidding; and, he still almost shut the Reds out.
Amazing how quickly things change…
40 yard FGS are chip shots
Probably half of ML pitchers routinely throw upper 90s
Almost every one shoots 3s and from way beyond the line
Hockey hasn’t changed a whole lot lately…
I think Zumie was saying it the other day about what a joke the corner 3 has become (22 feet)?
Rules too have changed significantly. All sports emphasize offense. Don’t follow hockey, so I suspect they are the “lone ranger” not following the crowd.
They stopped calling the 2-line pass.
Good one Chuck!
Hah! Dont know shit about hockey but I remember that for some unknown reason.
Impressed by Roupp last night who mixed up stuff using more and different off speed.
Like the guy or not, Machado can still play. Hurt SF last night at plate and in field.
Agree. I was surprised the night before that they had him at DH, so didn’t know whether this was a regular thing due to diminished fielding skills or what. Machado may not be liked by a lot of people (including me), but he is still good in the field and moreover, works his ass off trying to prove he is the best in the game, e.g., I think that goes way back to when his brother and him use to hit grounders to each other all day, every day, along with practicing other baseball type skills. Reminds me of the kids I grew up with in the ’60s (we played sports from dusk to dawn).
That being said, he sure has gained a lot of weight.
Missed 9th and 10th so wondering what type of pitches Doval couldn’t command. Like to follow along cbs site which gives pitch and velo in each AB–postgame does not. Last night looks like he couldn’t find zone at all with anything–was this both hard stuff and slider? What pitch did he get beat with on base hits?
machado’s hit wouldn’t’ve scored two without the walk and wild (very wild) FB that followed the IF single. Tatis also stole second easily after not advancing on the wild one. Even Doval’s lob to 1B on the early comebacker was wild.
Wade DFA’d …
Roster shakeup — 3 new guys in …
good. bout time.
Dom Smith late of the Yankees in at 1B…
From Trade Rumors:
Huff DFA’d.
“San Francisco also selected the contracts of outfielder Daniel Johnson and catcher Andrew Knizner from Triple-A and optioned infielder Christian Koss.”
All this surely was on the “grease board” as Kruk says, but the prior two Padre games, both offensive debacles, must have been the last straw. Who knows if any of this works, but it will at least shake up the comfort zone in that clubhouse. SOMETHING had to be done, and it has been…
Wade DFAed.
huff dfa to make room for knizner makes sense though Ray loses his preferred (why I have no idea) receiver. Probably no big deal. Add a bat.
Hey I called for Catcher Kinzer callup the last thread for Koss.So now Kinzer can be Ray’s personal catcher now Xoot.He’s much more experienced with a batter bat ( close to 900AB’s) I like this move.
Wade had to go unfortunately his bat speed caught up with him and you can’t have a non productive 1B , which actually they have plenty of but it was time for Wade and I wish him well .Lots of Late Night Wade in the past was fun to watch.
So I see it’s now Mets ex #1 pick Dominic
Good call Kat!
Giants sign Dom DiMaggi . . . uh, Dom Smith from the Yanks. 1st baseman OFer.
Damm WordPress freezes up my post!
Anyway Domenic Smith gets the crack now at 1B, he hasn’t been very good since 2020-2021 but since Wade’s few years of production are 1st base hasn’t been gray since Belt..
Hopefully Smith can hit some they need a Lefty over there as a stopgap before Eldridge anyway, RH bats at 1st are covered with,Schmitt,Flores some better at DH,and OF/1B Encarncaion..
Dom Smith is another ex-Met I was pushing for over the winter.
Would’ve been perfect for us at a lousy $2M/yr.
Excellent defensive 1B, decent lefty bat and reportedly a good dude…
Finally!
Only 2 years too late!
And Daniel Johnson who? Had a cup of coffee mostly in Cleveland.A lifetime.200 hitter in 90 Big League AB’s last in 2021? The .200 average fits in atleast with this team..O/F Lefty , the Giants are really scraping the bottom of the barrel for a washed up player..
Smith turns 30 this month…
https://tinyurl.com/37s2nn24
yeah, cool. Is he OK with glove/scoops?
He’ll do his best…
Does that Search feature really work DJ?
Or did you dig through hundreds of posts?
The search feature only takes you to main threads.
I found it through Google…
Well I read a stat that shows Dom has played 420 games at 1st ,over3,000 innings total and his fielding pct is .992 looks good to me that he can field& scoop.He’s in the LU right away tonight batting 7th, hey any change right now should be a plus! Loo have you seen him play much in NY? Tv/are at a game?
Johnson was hitting for power in Sac, 6 HRs and OPS over .800.
Oliver Nelson born this day 1932 passed age 43 1975.
Amazingly, yesterday was also the 50th anniversary of the passing of Ozzie Nelson…
I knew one of Ozzie’s granddaughters or nieces in college. Seemed to spend a lot of time brushing her horse down by the parking lot. Hello cowgirl in the sand. Didn’t impress. Rich LA people.
Baggs is back!
Even a hastily typed up summary from Baggs is better than anything else anyone else has written about these moves. Great timing. I’d forgotten that Johnson arrived from the Caliente de Durango ball club. He and Jerar may know each other.
Pavlovic isn’t worthless though. He reminded guys on the radio that Eldridge was a pitcher and power hitting DH in HS. After getting drafted as a two way player, he first tried the OF. Patience.
Subject to change but Smith 1b and Johnson RF starting
and Eldridge is at 1B for Sac.
Laying in the Sheets on Harrison’s curve ball and Gavin pounced on that triple off the wall.
Shit quick 2-0 lead for a team that can’t score, let us Pray 🙏 needing 3 minimum hopefully the new guys can produce some..
Lee’s such an exciting player. Love how he plays the game.
Sliding catch . . . encore.
Nice grab by Lee. Tatis stung that
Really Great execution by Harrison on that pickoff spin move at 2nd by a greedy runner who was trying to stea on 2 consecutive plays.As Kruk would say Grab some pine meat!
Lee great catch to end inning.Worred about Harry getting hit hard though..
New guys already fitting right in.
nice play Dominic.
Wow! Can of corn grounder and Adames muffed it.
That was a great catch by Dom, don’t think Wade makes that catch, so bonus defense a gf thing!
That pesky fuck Aarrez is killing Harrison’ pitch count..
Dang, that went south in a hurry.
Well the Padres just blew it open 5-0 9 hits Gmen 1 hit
Good news the guys back East can go to bed now zzzzz
That’s about 21 innings without the Giants scoring a run. Per something I read, their 16 innings prior to this game – ya had to go back to 1965 to find an equal stretch of futility. No idea how far you go back in history to find out the last time Giants didn’t score in 21 innings???
Well, there we go. We Score! We Win!
The undead have risen!
We created an outfielder!
Ramos just lit a fire under this crowd and team. Man, is he fired up!
Giants take the lead!
OMG they are ALIVE Ramos huge double to tie it up and now the lead with Lee Sac fly 6-5 Giants a week with of runs!!
Johnny Winter says “Still Alive and Well”
How does Daniel Johnson look in the field and at the plate?
Looks really good and comfortable in the field and at bat. A big contradiction to his stats . . .
https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/stats/_/id/40351/daniel-johnson
Late bloomer, maybe?
Not saying this is the case, but here’s an example of what type of hard luck, Johnson has had (see link below). I would imagine there are hundreds of players that “fall through the cracks” because a manager didn’t promote/advance him to the “show.” Johnson, may have been one of those players. Didn’t that happen to Yaz before he came here? Regardless, Johnson is getting a chance now.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31094117/cleveland-indians-option-daniel-johnson-minors-strong-camp
He’s been getting some ink in writeups about the minors. Maybe he figured something out. And yeah, getting a chance.
Johnson just made an outstanding play in the outfield. He probably saved a run with that play.
Johnson catch saved the game — for now.
well here we go. Good walker or bad walker?
good bad and ugly in 3 batters
Yeah looks great P/A , Johnson 2-4 2 runs scored and a SB and wow just made a sensational catch in CF..
wild ass ninth. Pull the closer after his third batter. Man. Johnson’s play in triples alley was brilliant. Ramos and Willy converging uselessly just now in LF — that was not a good play.
What a finish!
And there’s your closer
Yeahhhh! What a comeback!
hey now! My son got them a win!
down 5 no less
Yes! And the two new guys look like they intend to stick.
Great win!
Wow only the Giants keep torturing till the end! Daniel Johnson a game saving catch imo in the 9th ..Man a must win game and atleast gives them a chance for a split now..
A fun late sports night: Giants great win, Oilers win Game 1 in OT, and Mets lead Dodgers 3-0 in the 7th.
They always say that’s the kind of dramatic win that gets a team rolling. Yeah, getting the split tomorrow would possibly be indicative of that….
Johnson’s catch.
https://x.com/NBCSGiants/status/1930476235970490635
HUGE WIN!!!!!
Go Oilers!!
Snakes have torture too. Closer loaded bases with 2 walks and a hit batter. Walked in a run. Then got a K for the save in 2-1 win.
Alonso crushes 2nd HR tonight, a 3-run bomb, and it’s 6-0 Mets.
Thanks, John