Coors Field is a tough place to pitch but Kyle Harrison made it look easy. He mowed down the Rockies over seven scoreless frames. It took him 86 pitches to get the 21 outs, giving up only four hits and two walks. He whiffed just two but eleven ground outs made up the difference. All the hits were singles. That's three nice starts in a row from Harrison: 18 IP, 12 H, 1 R, 7 W, 16 K. That was his fifteenth career start and he turns 23 in August. I think he's coming along just fine.
Ryan Walker struck out all three of the batters he faced in the 8th. Camilo Doval, who did not appear in the four losses in Philadelphia, walked two but also whiffed two in his inning and the Giants had a shutout. He benefited from a nice play from Thairo Estrada to get the first out in the 9th. Harrison got backing early when the Giants put up a four-spot in the 4th with a slew of singles. They had ten hits total, nine singles and a double (Yaz).
Jordan Hicks tomorrow, 5:40 PT.
Go Giants!
--M.C.
3 comments:
Giants for once were the team with all the infield hits.
Maybe their luck is turning!
Perhaps the giants found a team that was more snakebit than they are. The giants had opportunities to make it a huge blowout, but were able to score 5 runs. Yaz looked to be back in his slump, his double was one of those luck turned the giants way doubles. He is still undercutting the pitches high in the strike zone. His propensity to uppercut pitches has left him once again to struggle vs pitches in the upper part of the strike zone and just above. Flores gets a lot of high pitches called strikes against him. I guess it is because he has a very upright stance.
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