The Giants finally got some good pitching from Tyler Mahle but it looked to be all for naught as the lineup (no surprise) couldn't get anything going. In the 9th however, down 1-0, Rafael Devers tied the game with a solo shot. That gave rookie Victor Bericoto a chance to play the hero. With two outs he hit a booming no-doubter for a walk-off winner. The youngster from Venezuela had already made a nice play to throw out a runner at home earlier in the game. Speaking of nice plays, Jung Hoo Lee made a great grab to end the 8th and preserve the tie. He also had two more hits!
The Giants have not delivered a lot of exciting finishes this season but this game was a nice exception. Day game today—12:45 PT. Landen Roupp gets the start.
Go Giants!
--M.C.
2 comments:
Even though Lee dropped a fly ball in the opener against the A's allowing the one unearned run. He seems to me to continue to dazzle in right field. I don't know what the metric services are measuring as they have him as a negative WAR fielder. The eye test, all season has said otherwise. Nice walk off, as the A's made the mistake of throwing the ball over the plate, instead of bouncing one 2 feet off the plate and striking out the young hitter. Even though the giants got one or two strike challenges correct, they did not challenge on a bunch of obvious bad calls. I thought as far as the giants were concerned it was one of the worst called games of this year, when most games have been umpired very accurately. Mahle was getting strikes called balls, the the A's pitcher, on at least 6 to 8 pitches had definite balls called strikes. Not talking about the really close ones, but obvious pitches that the giants could have invoked the challenge. It seems that teams that are really good at the challenge do much better.
Lee's blown a few "easy" plays and that usually is enough to give a guy negative fielding marks. You get graded on "catch probability" so you have to make all the "gimmes" and then add in the more impressive plays. He gets dinged for his sprint speed (not that great) as well.
I think he's getting better and more confident, for sure. Like you, I see a valuable defender and I think he's only going to improve.
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