Saturday, June 15, 2019

Trippin'

Stephen Vogt be trippin'.  2 triples in a game for a Giants' catcher hasn't been accomplished since 1984 by Steve Nicosia.

The Brewers be trippin'.  A 5 - 1 Brewer lead in the 5th.  At that point, the Giants had produced 2 base hits to start the game, then made consecutive outs until the bottom of the 4th when Pillar drove in Vogt after the first of his triples.  Then, Jimmy Nelson (apparently no relation to Ozzie) loaded the bases on 13 pitches.  Adrian Houser replaced him, walked Belt on 5 pitches to make it 5 - 2 and then allowed 2 more runs to score on sacrifices by Vogt and Panik.

Kevin Pillar be trippin'.  In the 4th, with 1 out, and runners at 2nd and 3rd due to a walk and a double, Pillar dropped a catchable sacrifice fly, allowing the batter, Hernan Perez to be safe at second.  2 more runs would score in the inning to put Brewers up 4 - 0.

Will Smith be trippin'.  17 saves in 17 chances breaks Rob Nen's record of 15 for a left-hander at the start of the season (actually, he did that yesterday).  He still has a ways to go to catch Rod Beck's record. 

Madison Bumgarner started, went 6 innings, gave up 5 runs, 3 of which were "earned" on 5 hits and 3 walks.  He struck out 6.  That makes him the # 1 left-handed strikeout leader in all time Giants history, surpassing Carl Hubbell.  He be trippin'.  Giants win their 4 in a row, a feat they haven't accomplished since some time last year, by a score of 8 - 7.   Wacky!

3 comments:

M.C. O'Connor said...

Great game today. Like you said--wacky. Lots of trippy happenings!

Four in a row, let's hope they can keep it going.

nomisnala said...

Pablo not starting. I hope we can win with Pablo not starting. Pence just hit his 15th home run vs. Cincy. and the game is in its early stages.

M.C. O'Connor said...

Got home today just in time to hear the final out. Bummer--there goes the streak. It was a good day to go to the mountains so we drove up Parks Creek Road and hiked up to Lower Caldwell Lake. Trinity Divide country--very nice. Hot, though. Even though it was only 2 miles to the lake it was 800 feet and I got tired pretty fast and sweated a bucketload! Looks like I have to get in shape for the hiking season.