The Giants attacked early and put up a four-spot in the 1st against Andrew Heaney and added another in the 2nd. That was all the scoring. Anthony DeScalfani allowed only three hits and two walks in seven frames while striking out nine. Dominic Leone and Jimmie Sherfy finished up. The top of the 1st featured an RBI bunt single from Brandon Belt followed by a homer from Wilmer Flores! DH Darin Ruf had two hits on his return from the IL--he scored on Belt's bunt.
Angels DH Shohei Ohtani walked and whiffed twice against Disco, and whiffed for the third time against Leone. He starts tomorrow afternoon against Kevin Gausman. Game time 1:07 Pacific.
Go Giants!
--M.C.
3 comments:
A couple of potential giants rallies taken out of their hands when, with men base and two outs, Ruf on a full count was called out on strikes on a pitch in a different area code. Later on a full count and two outs with men on, Slater removed from his AB by a similar call. It is just hard to watch. Yaz was called out on a good pitch, and he thought not, but if he reviews the tape he needs to re-evaluate his eye for the K zone. Considering the zone being called, I thought the game was over on the pen-ultimate pitch, but it was called a ball, only for Sherfy to come in with one more beautiful pitch to end the game. 10 shutouts is awesome. Now we have to hope that the team does not get caught up in the law of reciprocal shutouts, as it did against Washington with Gausman on the mound. Yesterday, Melancon tried to blow the save, but a nice catch by Myers ended the game and gave Melancon his 22nd save. Again the giants homered earyly and their long ball bats mostly retired after the first two innings. Seems as if the big talk around baseball after yesterday's games was the Scherzer incident.
It felt like the Giants could have scored another five runs. Flemm was complaining about the zone all day and he's usually pretty fair to the umps.
I think the MLBPA should have taken the lead on the sticky substance issue but they failed. Manfred then decided to do it by executive fiat and now the players are cranky. Boo-hoo! Scherzer should have kept his cool--obviously Girardi was trying to get in his head. Romo pulled his pants down when he was checked. I love Romo but that was bush league. The umps were ordered to start checking, it's not their fault they have to disrupt the game, the players should show some class and comply without the histrionics. Like I said if the union had been pro-active earlier this would not be happening.
They should make a list of allowed grip enhancers. Have every club and every pitcher use the same legal substances. Rosin is obviously on the list. Find one or two others that all the players can live with and push that. The players could have led the way on that. Guys like Gerritt Cole and Trevor Bauer could come out and say "this is what we use and we want this or something like it" and I'll bet they could come to some kind of consensus. The batters want pitchers who can spot the ball, who have command of the zone. They don't want to dodge 100-mph heaves that slip out of the pitcher's hand. There's a balance point here somewhere, it shouldn't be hard to find.
The last thing Manfred wants is consensus. They could have been less disruptive by merely taking balls out of play and checking them later. This is a show, it's about Manfred swinging his dick around to show everyone how big it is. Just the latest MLB policy implemented before it was thought through.
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