After a promising start with Friday's crisp 6-3 win, whatever momentum the Giants had (three wins in a row!) quickly evaporated. They got whupped on the weekend, 6-2 on Saturday and 6-2 again today. Landen Roupp did great to open things but Logan Webb was not himself (3 walks, homer) the next day. Still, four runs allowed in six frames kept the Giants within striking distance. Unfortunately this team has no pop. They can't get a big extra-base hit with men on base and so they couldn't really threaten a comeback. Today Adrian Houser couldn't finish the 5th and the 'pen gave up two more runs after that. At least Casey Schmitt is swinging a hot bat.
A 6-10 record is a .375 win percentage (a .625 loss percentage!). Two more games and we'll be 1/9 of the way through the season, the first "inning" of baseball. I can say with near-certainty that the Giants will have a stretch of baseball where they will go 10-6 or better. It will happen. It could happen next week. Or next month. Or in September when they are already eliminated. But that will only get them back to a .500 record. That's what we've been getting for the last few years. I was hoping for something better.
I think there's a good chance that this is just a bad team. They have some good players, but it's a bad team. I'm not sure why. Tell me I'm wrong.
Off-day tomorrow before a trip to Cincinnati.
--M.C.
2 comments:
The combination of taking no walks, and having almost no power does not bode well for the season. Unless they can turn that around, this team doomed for a subpar season. They are also not that good at using their challenges, and they so have had a modicum of bad luck, and more than their fair share of bad calls. When an entire offense has poor strike zone management at a time when walks are up, speaks to management and offensive approach. Maybe at so.e point we will appreciate just how good Kapler was. How much rope are we going to give Bader. So far his defense is good but not elite, but on offense he is an automatic out.
I thought this club was lacking youthful energy but Susac and Schmitt are doing their best. It just looks too much like last year. At least so far.
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