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The Giants battled the Rockies for 8.5 scoreless in I gs tonight. Madison Bumgarner for the Giants, coming off of an excellent 8 inning scoreless start. Madison threw 7 innings, struck out 8, and gave up 2 hits. Kyle Freeland for the Rox, 25 year-old 2nd year pitcher. He threw 7 scoreless, gave up 4 hits. Will Smith made quick work of the Rox in the 8th, as did Reyes Moronta in the top of the 9th. A 0 - 0 game at that point.
Something had to give and Brandon Crawford was in a giving mood. A soaring shot to the right field arcade with 1 out gave the Giants the win.
I like that the Giants have gotten wins without dropping the first game of a series. Brandon Crawford is a stud. 1 - 0 Giants.
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.883 OPS is a career high (by a LOT!), good for a 142 OPS+. He's is really raking these days.
Nice to see Bumgarner looking more like his old self.
We are 1/2-way through the season, 81 games. 42-39 puts us on a pace for 84 wins so I think they are going to have to improve a bit in the 2nd half. Three more games in June, right now they are 16-9 for the month. They allowed 155 runs in May (27 games), they have allowed only 74 so for in June. We've certainly seen an improvement in the pitching.
This is the first year in a long time that Tom Sieber and I haven't gone down to AT&T to catch the Giants/Phillies series. Hoping things go better and we can catch a series next year. Glad to see the Bum is back in good form. His work in the 2014 WS should have won him an Oscar.
Best Supported Actor!
Actually this year, Bumgarner has been given pretty bum support, making him the best Worst Supported Actor. Sam Dyson, after his fourth blown save, might be a nominee for the Most Insupportable Actor. And I must admit that I, a faithful supporter of Bochy’s actions almost always, was a nay-saying member of the Pitcher’s Motion Academy today, before and after the LeMahieu fiasco. I wish that Gearrin could be dealt to some other team, any other team, and that ours could bring up someone capable of late-inning, high-leverage work so as to ease the burden on Watson and Moronta as our fully healthy arms, and on Smith and Melancon as our arms still needing to be treated with caution. The obvious candidate is Ray Black, but I believe there are others too—Tyler Rogers?
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