AZ 2 SF 1
Derek Holland gave up two hits in his start tonight: it was two hits too many. A single, a triple, and a sacrifice fly in the 1st staked the Diamondbacks to a 2-0 lead and that was enough. Holland whiffed eight in his six innings against only one walk. Arizona starter Zack Godley whiffed nine in his seven and walked none while scattering four hits (two by Buster Posey). Godley was god-like as far as Giants hitters were concerned as he generated 16 called strikes and 20 swinging strikes (mostly via the curveball) and ten groundball outs. Brandon Belt and Evan Longoria were particularly over-matched. The Giants managed a run against reliever Yoshihisa Hirano in the 8th but were closed out in the 9th by Archie Bradley. Roberto Gomez (2) and Sam Dyson (1) put up a clean sheet for the last three innings. Eight scoreless frames from both clubs tonight with only ten hits allowed (five from each team) and 23 strikeouts.
Arizona is the hot team so far in the NL West winning eight of their first ten. The Giants can be happy about a strong start from FNG Holland but they really ought to think about scoring some runs as their total of 25 over nine games puts them at the bottom of the heap. It was a tough matchup tonight but it will be another tough matchup tomorrow with Patrick Corbin who has 20 K in 13 IP and has allowed only two runs in his two starts. The Giants counter with Johnny Cueto who has allowed only one run in his two starts (also 13 IP).
They still have not named a starter for Wednesday.
GO GIANTS!
--M.C.
6 comments:
Looks like it will probably be Beede (ML debut).
Confirmed - schpilkas alert!:
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/
Gomez goes back to AAA.
Cueto on the DL. Apparently he sprained his ankle in a workout.
Jesus Fucking Christ.
Seems not so much that Holland was outpitched, but that our hitters just plain suck. I think they took cuts at strike 3's at least 7 times, at pitches out of the strike zone. They are striking giants out left and right, and still keeping low pitch counts. Plate discipline this year, has been almost non existent, except when they take an obvious ball, and the ump calls it a strike anyway. Bummy, cueto, Samardj, and Melancon, on DL, that is a lot of money just sitting there unable to play.
Instead of Osich, I think he should have gone to Watson in a 3-2 game, when the giants just had a safe call at home overturned. I don't know how. Perhaps someone else can see that McCutchen was out, he sure looked safe to me. I thought to overturn a call like that, there had to be clear evidence of a mistake.
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