Thursday, May 3, 2012

The good, the bad, and the ugly (plus some weird)

The good: Giants go 4-11 with RISP.

The bad: they score only two runs. (That's what happens when you get only one extra-base hit, and that was leading off an inning. I swear the Giants must practice infield hits.)

The ugly: Barry Zito and his SEVEN walks. And more fielding lapses.

Giants survived Da Beezy's nonsense with some good relief work by the rooks and The Ancient One, but an inability to mount a threat or get a big hit ultimately doomed them. Ten hits, nine singles (three of the infield type), two measly fucking runs. Giants have allowed 11 hits and five runs in 19 innings and have two losses to show for it. That's great team pitching going to waste once again because of nostalgia for a 2011 offense-like product (you can't call 570 runs a real offense). What happened to the new and improved 2012 lineup? All these guys have to do is BE AVERAGE. The NL slash line is .249/.315/.386 and the Giants are .259/.310/.405 which is damn average, thank you very much. But they only have 93 RS (NL ave 100) and 89 RBI (NL ave 95). That ain't gonna work. And don't waste my time with dink-ball, the Giants are 13-21 in SB. Spare us the extra outs, please. This team has to do two things: (1) catch the fucking ball and make the fucking plays, and (2) get extra-base hits with men on base. The arms are there, it's arma virumque cano here at RMC, all day every day, with Matt Cain as Aeneas and me as goddamn Vergil.

Here's the weird: the Giants have the fewest batter strikeouts in the NL (138) and the fourth-fewest batter walks (62). The Giants make a lot of contact and put a lot of balls in play. They don't call Sir Meulens "Bam-Bam" for nothing, eh?

Oh, did I forget the injury to Pablo Sandoval? That helps.

--M.C.

9 comments:

SIR said...

I checked the glossary - who is The Ancient One? Since we missed the last half of the game I'm sorry but I'm not sure - Mota?

Zo said...

Zito pitched alright. He had one earned run, although didn't last long. The releif was rested and able after Matt threw 7+ the day before and a day off. The Giants out-hit the Marls again, and have nothing to show for it, and.................
We're back at .500.

As for the weird, your link yesterday explains that. The Giants swing at balls out of the strike zone, leading to many balls in play that result in outs. Ironically after yesterday's exchange, little ball got us into the tenth inning. Jon is correct, though, we just don't hit the ball enough

Brother Bob said...

Theriot's weak grounder with the bases loaded ended the 9th inning rally. Theriot is a shell of his former self. Has he done anything noteworthy for us yet?

M.C. O'Connor said...

Mota is The Great Old One or The Ancient One. I will update the glossary.

M.C. O'Connor said...

CMG at 3B today, Pablo to DL I assume.

Shankbone said...

Alright now, lets get rooting for the RMC's CMG. I know there are a lot of skeptics, but I've liked his ABs I saw in spring training and he goes the no batting glove route which gets mad respect from me. Gonna get tough for the next few weeks, gotta keep the faith.

JC Parsons said...

Since we are all in denial about what a disaster it would be to lose Pablo (any news yet?), I too will chime in about being excited about Connor (are there 2 n's?). He did look great this spring. Didn't notice the gloves though. Didn't Nate used to go bare handed but now he wears gloves?

JC Parsons said...

I guess it is official now: broken hamate in the other hand this time. Out for at least six weeks. ugggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

Zo said...

So now Pablo has broken the hamate in his other hand???? That's bizarre, I had never heard of this before and now he has had it twice? Most unfortunate. Well, we hung in there last year with stellar pitching and an arguably even worse offense went Pablo went down, although after the last two evenings, it seems especially grim. Hopefully some of the slumpers, Belt, Cabrera, Schierholtz, can pick it up.