The Giants made it two straight from the Marlins behind a superb start from lefty Alex Wood. He went seven full innings facing only 23 batters and allowing just one hit and one walk. The hit was a leadoff homer by Jazz Chisolm, Jr., but after that Wood dominated. I like that he works fast. He had seven strikeouts and nine groundouts. The Giants got a two-run homer from Mike Yastrzemski in the 3rd and held on to the 2-1 lead until a 3-run outburst in the 7th made it 5-1. Those insurance runs made the difference. Tyler Rogers pitched a clean 8th and Jake McGee struck out the first two in the 9th. Then Wilmer Flores, playing third base, made a poor throw on a grounder that Brandon Belt couldn't handle and the Marlins had a pulse. Jesus Aguilar hit a two-run homer to make it 5-3 but McGee struck out Garrett Cooper to end it.
It was a little weird there in the final moments but it was otherwise another good game by the orange-and-black. I should point out that Flores had two hits, an RBI, and a run scored, and has generally looked much better at third base this season. And I think it is interesting that Kapler stuck with both Rogers and McGee even with the four-run lead. Hey, when you have the chance to nail down a win, you take it. Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. I can't really fault that mentality.
Buster Posey caught his 1000th game. That's a franchise record, apparently. Wes Westrum is the closest with 902 games. Wow, that's a hell of a milestone. Congratulations to Buster!
Kevin Gausman goes tomorrow, at little earlier in the evening at 6:05 PDT.
Go Giants!
--M.C.
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This is Wood in his own words. Pitchers talk differently in today's game.(from the mlb story by Maria Guardado)
Wood said he thought his slider played well against the Marlins’ lineup and noted that he made some adjustments during Spring Training to tweak the overall profile of the pitch.
“At least based off the metrics of my first outing, it’s playing a little bit more like a mini-curveball,” Wood said. “It’s a unique pitch, and it’s been really good so far. It’s not so much the swing-and-misses or the strikeouts with my slider. It’s the ones I’ll throw in-zone that I’m getting ground balls on. That’s a really good sign for me moving forward, that it’s a sustainable pitch, and a pitch that’s going to be a real weapon for me over the course of the season.”
Posey going to try to catch a shutout had that blown by the first batter of the game. And then total shutdown. In Florida Chisolm turned on a high inside 100 mph fastball from a Braves reliever and pulled it for an over 420 foot dinger into right field. The kid has a quick bat. Flores has now missed to dingers, both of which looked as if they were gone at the crack of the bat but fell just short. Maybe it is a slightly less live ball this year. The Flores error cause our closer a bunch more pitches, not sure if it was enough pitches to keep him out of tonight's game. Our rightly line-up is definitely weakened without Longo and Solano. Gausman is 1-0 but should be 3-0 or maybe 3-1, but he has been a bad luck pitcher after he leaves the game. I hope the giants can solve the change up of tonight's Marlin's pitcher. Only one game behind the bums. Who would have thought. Still seeing very little of the giants on the MLB TV station except for the 5 shutouts. Hopefully more winning will force the issue.
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