Tonight the Giants were playing for pride, nothing else. Here is how bad the season has been: If the Giants were to win every fucking game for the rest of the season, the doggers would only have to play a little better than .400 to finish ahead of the Giants. 23 of the 51 games remaining, assuming they lost all remaining SF - LA games. It's not even August yet.
Here's how the game went:
Madison Bumgarner was a stud, held the doggers scoreless for 7 innings.
Conor Gillaspie hit a solo home run in the 8th after the Giants failed to score Panik from 2nd with 0 outs in the top of the 7th.
Stickland was shaky in the 8th, but held on.
Dyson (who, admittedly, has been pretty good lately) blew the save in the 9th.
Giants got a run in the 11th on a Kelby Tominson single, steal, productive out and rbi.
Giants' relief pitcher (Albert Suarez this time) blows save, gets loss.
It's like poetry, isn't it? It follows a certain cadence, but you know where it's going. Giants lose in 11, 3 - 2. Sigh.
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Oh, yeah. An honorable mention (dishonorable mention) to Shawon Dunston, for not challenging what was, on tv, clearly an out. A blown replay challenge opportunity late in the game (like, what is there to lose?).
The Giants enjoyed some success against the Dodgers earlier in the season but now LA is on fire and can't be bothered by a pesky last-place team. No matter what the Giants threw at them they had an answer for. It's going to be a long August.
This is the worst Giants team in my lifetime.
The Chronicle today reports that the Giants lead the major leagues in innings pitched by starting pitchers. Isn't that interesting? You might think that would add up to a few more wins. But with the fewest number of runs scored per game (3.8) and the third worst ranking among all major league teams in both inherited runners scoring and percentage of inherited runners scoring (59 and 38%, respectively), that kind of negates any of the positive stats, like quality starts. In fact, "tough losses" counts the number of games lost when the starter delivers a quality start. Guess who leads that category? The Giants (tied with Boston with 14).
Yup, worst team of my lifetime.
There have been lots of times this season where Boch normally would have yanked the starter but since there's no one in the 'pen he stuck with his guy for another inning. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
yes, that play needed to be challenged. The fact that they didn't automatically cost Bumgarner more pitches, and rotated the lineup and extra man. Indirectly could have cost us the game.
The dodger relievers have thrown a lot more innings than the giants relievers, but for some reason their relievers are a lot more resilient. One would think they might be affected by the Billy Martin effect, go to the relievers too often, and in the last month or two of the season they implode. Not happening. The giants attempted to get a starting rotation that would go more innings and allow the relievers to be better. It did not work. Anyone watch the game on ESPN and look at the balls called strikes against our hitter, and the strikes our pitchers threw call balls, and vice verse, the (net) number of home plate call against the giants had to be in double digits.
FanGraphs has their own version of box scores and it includes a graphic of balls and strikes. You can run your mouse over each dot and it will tell you the situation of the pitch.
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