PHI 9 SF 6
You don't expect Tony Watson to give it up when he enters the game, but by golly even that happens. "That's why they play the game." There's a bromide for ya.
Tyler Beede was confoundingly rookie-esque. He whiffed seven guys in five frames, but also gave up five runs. The Giants battled back most epically, but Bryce Harper splash-hitted, and it was done. All-Name Team candidate Jandel Gustave delivered some fine relief work.
*Smardj tomorrow afternoon. The Giants need a winning streak!
--M.C.
*if Samardzija was something like "Virgil Creed" or "Horatio Storm" instead of "Jeffrey Alan" he'd be right up there with Brock Stassi, Johneshwy Fargas, Hamlet Marte, and Caleb Baragar.
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FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS, 2019
AN HONEST TO GOODNESS SONNET
At the stroke of August, a team of Cinderelli
Have shrunk to a pack of pumpkin-dragging mice.
Their bats becoming boiled vermicelli,
Their hot streak’s on the rocks, perhaps dry ice.
The team that pranced to court with Cindy’s chariot,
And gloried in her slipper’s royal glitter,
Now mope in the foreign courtyard of a Marriott
Or stalled at home, grow bored, is it? or bitter?
Hasta, oh Giants of July, la vista!
In August vets need rest; rooks, restoration:
A well-stocked bar or a limber, deft barista,
Plus draughts of Farhan’s ratiocination.
The gilded carriage has dwindled to a cart.
And distant still are Ramos, Bishop, Bart.
A couple of takes out of that game. Buckner should no longer be an umpire calling balls and strikes. You cannot twice in a game throw an 86 MPH pitch in the upper middle half of the strike zone to Harper, and expect it not to go over 420 feet. For Harper those are batting practice pitches. Beede started the game with good stuff, yet the giants battery could not seem to harness the right pitches, in the right place at the right time for him. Watson looked off right from the start. I watched the Mets comeback, and there would have been no comeback if pitches were called strikes against them like the one on the 3-2 count to our Hall of famers grandson who was in the box leading off the ninth. He nicely worked out a walk and that last pitch was probably not only unhittable, but very likely not foul-off-able. Yes there were a lot of bad calls by Buckner in the game, and some of them favored the giants as well. But there were a few strikes to the giants that were not even in the same zip-code that were called strike 3's. This is just one more of at least 10 giants games this season that pushes me on the side of an automated strike zone. There have been some other games involving other teams which further supports this view. The fact that professional baseball is considering it and even implementing it on some levels means that I do not stand alone on this issue.
That K to Yaz was egregious.
Well I certainly appreciate a literary contribution! Thanks, campanari.
The problem with robo-umps is they are pretty far away. That is if you want solid, 99%-type precision. Perhaps they can get computer/replay assist info fed to the plate ump so he can avoid "egregious" calls and get help on borderline ones.
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