Blake Snell had four starts in July and ran out a nice looking line: 24 IP, 8 H. 2 R, 5 W, 30 K. The Giants won three of those games. Tonight against the Reds he surpassed all of that with a no-hitter. That's right, a complete game shutout without allowing a hit. It's the third no-no in MLB this season and the 18th in Giants history. Even better: it's the first complete game of Snell's career! Obviously it's also his first no-hitter and his first shutout. In fact he had never gone eight full frames--7-2/3 IP was his career high.
Snell threw 103 pitches in his last start where he struck out 15 in six innings. Tonight he reached 114 with 11 whiffs. He got nine fly ball outs and two on the ground. All this after the game's start was delayed by an hour due to rain.
The lineup struck out 14 times but the rookies saved the day. Homers by Tyler Fitzgerald (who also had an RBI double) and Casey Schmitt backed up Snell.
Back-to-back shutouts by the team's aces are a good way to "serve notice" to the rest of the league. Congratulations to Blake Snell for an historic accomplishment. And a pat on the back to the ball club for pulling out the win. Let's get some more! 4:15 PT tomorrow.
Go Giants!
--M.C.
7 comments:
This was, according to the announcers, the first time Snell ha pitched in the 9th inning.
Back to back shutout complete games. Like old times!
Burkett and Swift and pray for rain. The pitching mix the last 2 days was more like, Maddox and Koufax. I could not find the game score for Snell. I suspect it was in the 90's.
B-R says 95 for Snell's Game Score.
Also, Cincinnati's uniforms are fucking awful. They are the new Nike designed uniforms that were complained about earlier in the season, I guess. They've totally done away with the classic C and replaced it with some new C, replaced Cincinnati with "Cincy" and, somehow, made black look bad. This game tries my patience sometimes. Like Cleveland's and the All Star uniforms, they must have been done by someone with no knowledge whatsoever of baseball, history or design. I honestly think if the Giants wear this crap with "Frisco" on the front I'd root for them to lose.
The All-Star game unis were really bad. Close to unwatchable. They should just go back to the old style of wearing your team uni with an AS cap. And indeed the Cincy black scheme is hideous.
Fashion designers always put crazy outre shit on the runway, then sell more normal stuff to the regular people. MLB went out and got some Tik Tok teenage influencer who, as you say, has no knowledge of baseball, and whatever they slapped together got chosen. There was no intermediate step of "toning it down for retail" like they do in the real clothing industry.
It's almost like "what can we get away with?" is the new MLB media mantra. If the baseball public will swallow this garbage then imagine what's coming!
Many decades ago, when I played in little league ball, and I mean over 60 years ago, we had the major leagues and the minor leagues. In the major leagues, we had classical baseball uniforms, and it felt right. We could always tell a minor league game, as their uniforms looked a heck of a lot like these crazy new uniforms. Some kids used to make fun of the minor league players, because of their pajama like uniforms. If the above is correct and Snell's game score was 95, I think it is the top score so far this year.
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