The Giants jumped on the Angels young lefty starter (Jose Suarez) for two runs in the 1st and then piled on four more in the 2nd off him and reliever Matt Andriese. The Giants added two more in the 3rd, one in the 4th, and another in the 6th off Julio Teheran. Wilmer Flores had three of the lineup's 12 hits and drove in four runs. Austin Slater had two hits and two runs scored as did Brandon Crawford who is looking better every day. Joey Bart was 1-for-4 with a double in his debut. Gabe Kapler pinch-hit Alex Dickerson for Darin Ruf in the 2nd inning (he was 0-for-1) to get a platoon advantage with the bases loaded and it worked as Dick walked to drive in a run. He drove in another with a sac fly in the 6th.
Kevin Gausman was charged with four runs in his 5-1/3 but struck out eight with only one walk. Sam Selman finished the 6th. Shaun Anderson made a bunch of new friends by throwing high heat to Mike Trout to open the 7th. Angels manager Joe Maddon flipped out after Anderson's pitch and you could hear him drop the f-bomb on the radio. The umpires issued the warnings and Trout promptly tripled, just missing a homer. He wound up scoring after Anderson loaded the bases with two outs and Wandy Peralta walked him in. That was the tensest the game got. Peralta got the strikeout to end the frame and then pitched a clean 8th. Jarlin Garcia threw 11 pitches (9 strikes) to close it out.
Just another routine Giants victory! 11-16 (.407) may not look like much but its better than the Royals, the Tigers, the Red Sox, the Angels, the Mariners, and the Pirates. The Arizona Diamondbacks come to San Francisco for three games, tomorrow night is at 6:45 Pacific.
GO GIANTS!
--M.C.
p.s. Logan Webb, Tyler Anderson, and Trevor Cahill this weekend.
5 comments:
The Joey Bart Era is under way. He looks very strong, almost like Trout.
Did you see the story about the Padres hitting a grand slam four games in a row? That had never happened before in baseball history!
For the Padres, if you keep getting runners on, grand slams will come. Our starters ERA's are inflated for two reasons as I see it. Poor fielding allowing runners to get on, but no error charged, and any runner left on base when they leave, almost always scores with our relief staff. Cueto for instance could leave the game with a man or two on and one or two outs, and we can be sure that those runs will score and while he is on the bench his era will rise. Of course they got on base while he was in the game, but they scored later. This hold for almost all our starters. Must be quite frustrating. Even though we are taking more walks, we still have batters striking out despite the oppositions pitcher not having to throw one pitch in the strike zone. Some of our hitters hack worse than Pablo. Our home run rate with two strikes this year is impressive. Journeymen like Flores and Solano have really come through for the giants. Even most of their outs are loud.
Giants are in the middle of the pack, taking 82 walks, but Yaz has 20 of those. They are in the middle of the pack with 216 strikeouts. They are in the top third with a .255 batting average. It's way better than last year as they are now averaging 4.89 rpg, just above the league mean of 4.71 rpg.
What is killing them is the 107 walks issued by pitchers (4th worst) and 234 hits allowed (3rd worst). Add the fielding woes to that and it gets ugly.
With Belt and BCraw back and hitting well enough to stay in the lineup the infield defense is getting much better. Plus now with Bart we should see better work at that crucial position. I'm shocked that both Flores and Solano seem to be bad fielders, or at least not plus-fielders. But both are raking so I can live with it.
Of the 234 hits allowed I should have mentioned 43 homers. That's tied for second-most.
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