Wait, let me guess. Relief pitching? Of course. So with two wins in the books and our two best pitchers (Ty Blach and Madison Bumgarner) on the mound we lose both games? Against the team with the worst record in the major leagues? And lack of offense to boot (today, anyway)? How positively 2017.
Ty Blach on the mound Saturday against the Phillies. Ty was not his sharp self. He gave up 1 in the 2nd, allowing Philly to tie the game at 1 each, and 3 in the 3rd, allowing Philly to take a 4 - 3 lead after Span's rbi single scored Jones and Tomlinson for a 3 - 1 lead. The Giants tied the game at 4 all in the 5th, then gave it up in the 6th. Blach got the first out, allowed a double and a single for a run and was replaced by Osich. Gearrin relieved Osich later that inning and by the time it was the bottom of the 6th, the Giants were behind 11 - 4. They staged a rally in the 9th, but fell by a final score of 12 - 9. That wasted a Denard Span first inning lead off inside-the-park home run, the first by the Giants since 1945. That was exciting. The final score, not so much. Suarez threw the final 3, allowing 1 and looking pretty good.
Madison Bumgarner on the hill Sunday. Madison threw 6, struck out 7, gave up 1 run on 4 hits and 1 walk. A Buster Posey single scored Tomlinson in the 4th, and Madison Bumgarner scorched a single in the 5th to score Ryder Jones and stake the Giants to a 2 - 1 lead. Mark Melancon took the 7th, gave up 2 hits and struck out 2 but allowed no runs. Hunter Strickland was a different story. He made it through the 8th, but gave up 6 hits and 3 runs. Kyle Crick gave up 1 more in the 9th. The final score was 5 - 2. We are 3 - 4 against the Philadelphia Phillies this year. We have games left against St. Louis and Milwaukee, both of whom are fighting for a playoff berth, the White Sox, and the NL West. We're back under .400, where, apparently, we belong.
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Sunday was Game 126 (end of the 7th seasonal inning). Sunday was Eclipse Eve for me. We had an epic adventure, by the way, and got an excellent view of the eclipse. We had no trouble with crowds or traffic. I'll be writing stuff about it soon.
Meanwhile, I've obviously been out-of-touch. But I'll be back in the swing of things soon.
In the meantime, the Giants took two out of three from the contending Brewers, and got three well-pitched games from Stratton, Samardzija, and Moore, as well as encouragingly event-free pitching from Melancon.
Not only that everyone else in our division lost. Was there another astronomical event today? Bums pitcher tossed a no hitter through 9 innings, and then lost in the tenth. Rockies lost on a walk of homer as KC came from behind, and Melky Cabrera had kept the rally going with two outs, If only picking up a game on everyone else in the division meant something.
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