Six pitchers allowed ten hits (eight singles and two doubles), one walk, and nary a run to beat the Rockies yesterday afternoon in Colorado. It was the eighth team shutout and their twelfth win in the month. I note that because they won only eleven games in July and ten in August.
The Giants also had ten hits with half coming from Joc Pederson (three singles) and Mike Yastrzemski (homer, double). The key stat is the four double plays turned, all of which ended innings. FNG RH Jharel Cotton (a recent waiver claim) pitched 2-2/3 to claim the lion's share of outs. John Brebbia opened, he was followed by Tyler Rogers, Jarlín García, Cotton, Scott Alexander, and Camilo Doval.
It's on to Arizona for three before an off-day on Monday. Carlos Rodón gets the start tonight, 6:40 PT.
Go Giants!
--M.C.
3 comments:
considering a bunch of games where the ball did not bounce our way, or had some really bad luck and bad calls, the shutout game vs. the Rockies was much the opposite. The bounces for the most part went our way, except for Crawford's hard hit line drive into a double play. Finally, a game where the giants got most of the bounces. Crawford made one of his best plays of the year.
Luck has definitely changed for the better! Everything went one way in the early season, it seemed. Now things seem a lot more balanced and we are actually catching some breaks!!
BCraw has had a bad year (.648 OPS) but he still pulls off those impossible plays.
Giants are going to chase a FA SS, I think, but they also have BCraw under contract for 2023 ($16M). Should be interesting.
Jharel Cotton came up through the Dodgers system (drafted 2012) so he was likely a familiar face to FZ and Kap. He was a starter in Oakland (2017) but is strictly a reliever these days.
Cole Waites was sent back down and (former Braves/DBacks starter) Shelby Miller was called up.
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