Trevor Bauer is one of the hardest pitchers in baseball to get a hit against and the Giants found that out tonight, managing a total of two. They made Bauer work hard and forced him to throw 126 pitches in his 6-1/3 innings but could only get the one run. Two walks in the 7th and an a throwing error from Bauer himself let the run in and got him out of the game, but that was it. Alex Wood pitched well despite giving up eight hits in his six frames. A two-run homer from Chris Taylor in the 3rd was his undoing. Wood struck out seven and walked two. Zack Littell, Caleb Baragar, and Jarlin Garcia finished up. Bauer had 11 strikeouts and four walks, with Nate Jones and Blake Treinen getting the final eight outs on 25 pitches. Interesting note: no starter has completed seven innings against the Giants this year.
As I suspected, the Giants sent Camilo Doval down to make room for a call-up. They chose Nick Tropeano who I thought would make the team after Spring Training. He has ML experience as a starter.
Tomorrow's game is on Fox at 4:15 Pacific.
Go Giants!
--M.C.
3 comments:
I was surprised that we did not score 2 runs on that error. Looked as if our runner could have scored. Maybe it is hard to tell on TV, but there seemed to be more than enough time. The day after the giants managed to score 19 runs, the Braves scored 20, and the Pads scored 16. Seems as if we started a trend. I hope the day after the Pads also struggle. We are now tied with the Pads with identical records. The giants have played more road games, and after coming home for just 3 games they are going back on the road for 7. There has to be a nice stretch somewhere when the giants have a whole bunch of home games.
15 home games in June, 18 in September. The other months are "normal." May is the outlier for the Giants this year--only 9 home games.
Scott Kazmir promoted, Sam Selman sent down. I knew they had other starters (like Yamaguchi) stashed at AAA, but I wasn't sure who would get the call-up.
Kazmir is listed as today's starter. I suspect Tropeano will be the first guy out of the 'pen.
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