Friday, April 13, 2018

Stumbling Along

Ty Blach on the mound for his 4th start in this season of 13 games thus far.  Ty has been good, poor, good again, and less than good tonight.

Ty gave us 5 IP, he pitched in the 6th, but was done for and removed for Pierce Johnson.  Through 4, Ty did not allow a man to reach base.   In the 5th, a hit, a fielder's choice, and another single put men at first and second.  A possible double play ball was erred upon by Brandon Belt, leaving bases loaded.  Then came a single, a fielders choice at home to prevent a 2nd run, and another single to score a 2nd run before the inning ended.  None of those balls were hit particularly hard, but after a fairly quick top of the 6th, that changed.  Two doubles and a single put the Padres up 4 - 0 before the Giants transferred mound duties to Johnson who retired the next three batters. 

The Giants scored (Panik rbi, Blanco scoring) in the 7th.  To get that, Padre shortstop Freddy Galvis had to blow a double play ball from Sandoval to put Gregor on second.  The Pads tacked on a solo shot off of Dyson to make the final a loss for the Giants 5 - 1

So in 4 starts, Ty has given up 10 earned runs in 20.1 innings.  He has given up 24 hits and walked 9.  That suggests that the 10 earned runs (11 total) could have been worse.  That masks 2 excellent games, though, both against Kershaw.

The Giants actually had 10 hits tonight, more than the Padres.  Every one of those hits was by a left handed batter.  Who the fuck is Tyson Ross?  I had to look it up - he was an A, a Pad previously, and a Texas Ranger last year.  But really, making mid-level pitchers look like Cy Young is getting old.

Here's the thing.  The Giants have played 13 games.  In 7 of those games, they have scored 1 or 0 runs.  I would say that they are lucky to be 1 game under .500.   We have faced some tough pitchers, but you know what?  The NL West is full of tough pitchers and we are going to face them all season long.  Figure out how to get some runs on the board.  Now.

2 comments:

M.C. O'Connor said...

Yeah, they need to score some damn runs! Disappointing game. The error by Belt should not have resulted in a meltdown. I thought Blach showed his youth a bit. Can't blame him for that, I guess. He'll be better in that kind of situation next time.

nomisnala said...

Blach has been problematic at times after the first time through the lineup, sometimes he is good for two times through the lineup. You could see that the pads changed their approach and they all started going to right field. Giants often fold up after a bad defensive play. That choke nozzle seems to have been opened since after the allstar break in 2016.