The 2021 San Francisco Giants won their 104th game and that's the most ever by a San Francisco Giants team. It was also the team's 17th shutout and their 20th win in the month of September. Alex Wood got the start and he dominated for six frames, allowing only three hits with six strikeouts and no walks. Superb relief from Dominic Leone and Jarlin Garcia in the 7th and 8th set things up for young Camilo Doval in the 9th. He answered with a ten-pitch, two-whiff save. It was an awesome team pitching performance. What's even better is that the slugging Giants created a run in the 7th with a single by a pinch-hitter (Tommy La Stella), a steal by a pinch-runner (Steven Duggar), a sacrifice bunt (LaMonte Wade, Jr.), and a sacrifice fly (Kris Bryant). Little ball! It just goes to show that a good team has a lot of arrows in the quiver. A good team can win in lots of ways.
The Giants are a good team. Their magic number is now three regardless of what happens in LA. The Padres are leading as I type this, but I'm not counting on them. The Giants understand what they have to do to win the West and I am confident they will get it done.
Scott Kazmir gets the start tomorrow night (6:45 PT). Madison Bumgarner takes the hill for Arizona. That's going to be weird!
GO GIANTS!
--M.C.
4 comments:
We need to beat Bumgarner. The freaking dodger did come back with a barrage of homers. The Pads have now lost 8 straight to the bums. Except for the game the Pads finished from earlier in the season vs. The Braves, the only 3 games they have won in their last 17 were against the Giants. Giants need to win tomorrow and take the first 2 from the Pads.
Giants aren't getting any help. They have to win three more games. That's OK, they can do it.
We have to put the kabash on the possibility of reciprocal shutouts. Has happened way too often. Time to beat Bumgarner and make him pay for leaving the giants. Show him why he made the wrong decision and is dancing in the wrong rodeo.
Not only were we not shut out we scored after 2 batters and racked up our win total to 105 on a walk off hit by Lamont Wade.
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