MIN 4 SF 0
Ervin Santana came to town with some interesting numbers behind his season: only 23 runs allowed, third-best among starters; 0.89 WHIP, also third-best; .520 OPS against, second best; 81 IP, tied for first; and two shutouts, the league leader. So he proceeded to throw another shutout and his bases-clearing double in the 4th broke the game open. That was his first hit, he had DH'd in his 12 previous starts. He had never faced the Giants in his 13-year big league career. I think he made an impression. The Giants were helpless: they only saw 91 pitches total and managed four hits and a walk. With a 1-0 lead in the 3rd Santana yielded a leadoff triple to Aaron Hill. Two pitches later it was two outs and two pitches after that the inning was over. That summed up the Giants night.
--M.C.
Friday, June 9, 2017
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Late Runs and a Lying President
Win, 9-5(10) @ MIL
On my desk , while I was giving my Biology students their final exam, I had my phone playing today's game as my desktop streamed the Congressional Hearings with the former FBI director. Talk about multi-tasking. The exam taking was very boring but the other two events were smokin' hot. So, while James Comey detailed how the POTUS lied and obstructed justice, our beloved boys pulled off a highlight packed thriller. By the end of the crazy ass game, I was at a retirement party for a couple dear friends! Needless to say, it was an odd and fun day.
Some game notes:
* JohnnyC can't seem to lose against the Brewers; the last time was in 2012. He sure didn't seem comfortable at any point today though. 5 innings, 2 er, 6 hits, 4 walks, 4 k's game score 39
* Austin Slater crushed his first homer, a 461 ft. shot that is the longest rookie dinger this year
* Melancon blew it for the third time. He regrouped but yuck. Are we suppose to forgive him due to lack of work? Hmmm.
* Five hits in a row in the tenth inning!!! Sweet! Four runs before we made an out. Even Pence contributed!
* Aaron Hill is quietly making a difference. I think that is three or four big pinch hits this week.
Sorry if I missed a few tidbits, but I was a bit distracted. In fact, time for me to get back to my MSNBC feed. Go Giants!!! Resist!!!
On my desk , while I was giving my Biology students their final exam, I had my phone playing today's game as my desktop streamed the Congressional Hearings with the former FBI director. Talk about multi-tasking. The exam taking was very boring but the other two events were smokin' hot. So, while James Comey detailed how the POTUS lied and obstructed justice, our beloved boys pulled off a highlight packed thriller. By the end of the crazy ass game, I was at a retirement party for a couple dear friends! Needless to say, it was an odd and fun day.
Some game notes:
* JohnnyC can't seem to lose against the Brewers; the last time was in 2012. He sure didn't seem comfortable at any point today though. 5 innings, 2 er, 6 hits, 4 walks, 4 k's game score 39
* Austin Slater crushed his first homer, a 461 ft. shot that is the longest rookie dinger this year
* Melancon blew it for the third time. He regrouped but yuck. Are we suppose to forgive him due to lack of work? Hmmm.
* Five hits in a row in the tenth inning!!! Sweet! Four runs before we made an out. Even Pence contributed!
* Aaron Hill is quietly making a difference. I think that is three or four big pinch hits this week.
Sorry if I missed a few tidbits, but I was a bit distracted. In fact, time for me to get back to my MSNBC feed. Go Giants!!! Resist!!!
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
The Beat Goes On
MIL 6 SF 3
Well, the beat-down, anyway. Giants get beat-down in Milwaukee for the second night in a row. It looked good for a little while, what with Buster Posey giving the team the lead in the 3rd with a two-run homer, but in the end the Brewers were better. They scored in the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th and got three scoreless innings from their 'pen. Ty Blach had a rough night with nine hits and five runs in his six innings. George Kontos kind of summed up the season in his two innings of relief: struck out four but allowed a homer. Can't have the good without the bad, I suppose.
JohnnyC tomorrow to finish the series and the road trip.
GO GIANTS!
--M.C.
Well, the beat-down, anyway. Giants get beat-down in Milwaukee for the second night in a row. It looked good for a little while, what with Buster Posey giving the team the lead in the 3rd with a two-run homer, but in the end the Brewers were better. They scored in the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th and got three scoreless innings from their 'pen. Ty Blach had a rough night with nine hits and five runs in his six innings. George Kontos kind of summed up the season in his two innings of relief: struck out four but allowed a homer. Can't have the good without the bad, I suppose.
JohnnyC tomorrow to finish the series and the road trip.
GO GIANTS!
--M.C.
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Brewers Prevail
MIL 5 SF 2
Matt Cain pitched five innings again, unfortunately he allowed 10 hits and five runs. He got clobbered by a good lineup and had a little bad luck as well. The Brewers were sitting on the curveball, Cain's new weapon, and that was that. Matty has hung on as a fifth starter but the lack of strikeouts (5.9/9) and the high walk totals (3.8/9) aren't sustainable. He's putting 1.5 guys on base every inning and that can't last. I don't know what's going to happen but I think when MadBum is back and Cueto gets traded they'll call up Tyler Beede and either send Cain to the 'pen or cut him loose. It's that kind of year. I see the team picked up a former stud closer who has fallen on hard times, Sam Dyson. The Giants, it seems, love projects. The best I can say is to quote FanGraphs' Jeff Sullivan: "It's Anyone's Guess What Sam Dyson Has Left."
--M.C.
Matt Cain pitched five innings again, unfortunately he allowed 10 hits and five runs. He got clobbered by a good lineup and had a little bad luck as well. The Brewers were sitting on the curveball, Cain's new weapon, and that was that. Matty has hung on as a fifth starter but the lack of strikeouts (5.9/9) and the high walk totals (3.8/9) aren't sustainable. He's putting 1.5 guys on base every inning and that can't last. I don't know what's going to happen but I think when MadBum is back and Cueto gets traded they'll call up Tyler Beede and either send Cain to the 'pen or cut him loose. It's that kind of year. I see the team picked up a former stud closer who has fallen on hard times, Sam Dyson. The Giants, it seems, love projects. The best I can say is to quote FanGraphs' Jeff Sullivan: "It's Anyone's Guess What Sam Dyson Has Left."
--M.C.
Monday, June 5, 2017
Shark Attack
SF 7 MIL 2
Jeff Samardzija overpowered a potent Brewers lineup tonight in Miller Park, at one point he retired 19 in a row. The big righty bounced back from a stinker last time and delivered one of his best starts of the season, especially when you consider it was on the road against a good team. He threw a season-high 119 pitches and struck out 10 in 7-2/3 IP. The Giants made it a laugher late but The Shark was the difference tonight. Belt, Posey, and Nunez all had two hits; Strickland and Melancon did their jobs, the closer got it done with six pitches. A great win, something much too infrequent this season!
--M.C.
Jeff Samardzija overpowered a potent Brewers lineup tonight in Miller Park, at one point he retired 19 in a row. The big righty bounced back from a stinker last time and delivered one of his best starts of the season, especially when you consider it was on the road against a good team. He threw a season-high 119 pitches and struck out 10 in 7-2/3 IP. The Giants made it a laugher late but The Shark was the difference tonight. Belt, Posey, and Nunez all had two hits; Strickland and Melancon did their jobs, the closer got it done with six pitches. A great win, something much too infrequent this season!
--M.C.
Saturday, June 3, 2017
Familiar Loss
Loss, 5-3 @ PHI
This game report has been written a bunch of times already in this sorry ass season. Solid starting pitching is betrayed by shoddy bullpen work and a feeble offense that makes a mediocre opponent look outstanding. Sound familiar? Today it was Johnny Cueto (5-5, game score 54) doing pretty good for six innings but when he handed off a couple baserunners in a tie game to Strickland it all went BOOM. Meanwhile, some minor league wonder pretty much handcuffed us for 7 innings. If not for a small uprising in the ninth, this game was a total waste of a lovely Saturday afternoon.
So, one day after a great "up lifting" victory, we are right back to the drawing board. It seems like the crucial question for this team is "Are they capable of putting together a winning streak?" If we stand a chance we need to do a 22-8 kind of thing. Even 14 of 16, to get us around .500. Can we do that??
This game report has been written a bunch of times already in this sorry ass season. Solid starting pitching is betrayed by shoddy bullpen work and a feeble offense that makes a mediocre opponent look outstanding. Sound familiar? Today it was Johnny Cueto (5-5, game score 54) doing pretty good for six innings but when he handed off a couple baserunners in a tie game to Strickland it all went BOOM. Meanwhile, some minor league wonder pretty much handcuffed us for 7 innings. If not for a small uprising in the ninth, this game was a total waste of a lovely Saturday afternoon.
So, one day after a great "up lifting" victory, we are right back to the drawing board. It seems like the crucial question for this team is "Are they capable of putting together a winning streak?" If we stand a chance we need to do a 22-8 kind of thing. Even 14 of 16, to get us around .500. Can we do that??
Friday, June 2, 2017
Blach Leads Giants
SF 10 PHI 0
It was the best game of the season. Ty Blach threw a 112-pitch shutout and the lineup got 15 hits and scored 10 runs. It was the kind of game the Giants need to play, oh, ten more times, at least. I'm happy the rookie is looking good, we need young blood badly on this club. Giants beat up on a team much worse than them--let's hope they keep doing that.
--M.C.
It was the best game of the season. Ty Blach threw a 112-pitch shutout and the lineup got 15 hits and scored 10 runs. It was the kind of game the Giants need to play, oh, ten more times, at least. I'm happy the rookie is looking good, we need young blood badly on this club. Giants beat up on a team much worse than them--let's hope they keep doing that.
--M.C.
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