The Giants win their 100th game of the season. 100! The Giants have been in San Francisco since 1958. That's 64 seasons. If you exclude shortened seasons--1981, 1994, 1995, 2020--it comes to 60. The Giants won 103 games in 1962, 103 games in 1993, and 100 games in 2003. That's four times in sixty seasons. This only happens once in fifteen years. Or, it happens once every decade or two.
What's crazy, of course, is that this historic, incredible season might not be good enough. The 100-win Giants have the just-barely-behind Dodgers nipping at their heels. Hell, it's not nipping. It's a pack of full-throated, banshee-wailing werewolves in pursuit! The NL West race will come down to the last man standing.
The Giants hit four homers tonight but my shout-out goes to 22-year old Kervin Castro who delivered two scoreless innings--the 5th and 6th--with two strikeouts in relief of Alex Wood. Check out Castro's minor league line: 58 G, 133-2/3 IP, 100 H, 52 R, 48 BB, 148 SO. This guy has only faced 548 batters before being called up! He pitched in the Dominican Summer League in 2016 and 2018, then at Salem-Keizer in 2019, nothing of course in 2020, and then 44 IP at Sacramento before the promotion. Wow!
Anthony DeSclafani gets the start tomorrow, it's listed as a 5:10 (PT) start time. There are eight games left to play.
GO GIANTS!
--M.C.
5 comments:
It would be nice if Arizona can come from behind and beat the bums. The bums loaded the bases for the 200th ti.e this season In the top of the 8th. The most in the majors. They did not score.
Camilo Doval is getting better fast. If he doesn't backslide, he could be a major factor in what happens in the next few weeks. He appears to be seriously talented.
The San Jose Giants (low-A) won their league championship last night. Marco Luciano homered.
The Eugene Emeralds (high-A) won their league championship last night. Luis Matos homered.
I hope that means "the future's so bright we gotta wear shades."
Nice article about LaMonte Wade, Jr. over at FanGraphs.
I think he should be "Late Inning" LaMonte.
Hoping Giants not to obsessed with the home run record Saturday. Would be nice to set the table before going deep.
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