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The Harvest Moon of Friday the 13th brought good luck to the win-starved Giants. Tyler Beede pitched well (6-1/3, 3 H, 1 W, 5 K), and that certainly had a lot to do with it. Superb relief work from Tyler Rogers (5 batters, three whiffs) and new closer Shaun Anderson helped a hell of a lot, too. If you like old-school get-'em-on, get-'em-over, get-'em-in baseball you were in luck. The Giants did that once. The Marlins did it zero times, and one is bigger than zero. Brandon Belt had three hits including two doubles but did not figure in the scoring. It was that kind of game. The fielders helped, turning two big double plays, and Buster Posey threw out a wannabe base-stealer. He also drove in the game-winner with a bouncer through a drawn-in infield. I'm a big fan of wins, no matter how weird they are, and this game was weird. Tyler Beede pitched well and that's something we want to see more of, and Shaun Anderson is "serving notice" that he's a genuine closer candidate. That's the team's eighth shutout.
Madison Bumgarner goes tomorrow night at 6:05 and Johnny Cueto goes Sunday afternoon at 1:05. That's Pacific Daylight Time. I like this Bum-JC two-step. I hope they sign Bum and we get to see it for a couple more years.
GO GIANTS!
--M.C.
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In other sports news... The 49ers and Golden Bears are both undefeated. Enjoy that for a moment.
Sam Dyson to hit the IL again. That's Moronta, Watson, Smith, and now Dyson. Those four guys all hit the IL in the second half.
It is really hard to pitch out of the 'pen all season long at the high level we saw for a few months. There are going to be ups and downs, and that great random-izer, injuries, will strike as well.
I think the Giants best solution going forward is to have good depth at AAA so if someone goes down or otherwise needs to sit, they have a pitcher or two they can call up and expect a reasonable chance of ML-level performance.
Right now they have a lot of uncertainty, but I like that Anderson just may be a closer or at least a high-leverage guy next season. Moronta will miss most of 2020 so they have to plug that gap. Tyler Rogers has to be moving up on the list. I hope a few others emerge (Gott, Suarez, Coonrod, Gustave, Jerez, Selman, etc.) to fill out the relief corps. It feels more and more like they need to sign Bum.
This weekend series featuring our two star pitchers could be a preview for next year. I hope they both pitch well and the lineup gets some god damn run-scoring hits! (We all know Matt Cain had rotten luck, who can deny the same for Brandon Belt? Another booming deep liner that fails to both go out and/or drive in a run! How does that happen?)
Corban Joseph DFA'd and Mike Gerber returns. Corban was there for his lefty bat but Gerber is a lefty, too, and Christhian Adames was also called up, he'll take Joseph's utility infielder role. Adames is a righty and has about a season's worth of MLB time over four seasons with the Rockies.
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