Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Game Wrap 04-21-2010: Padres 5 Giants 2

After 2 disheartening losses with virtually no offense, the outlook for today's game with weak link in the rotaton Todd Wellemeyer trying to salvage stave off a sweep looked rather grim. Well, it wasn't a mirage. If the Giants had scored the two runs they scored today last night, they would have won the game. Today, it was just another loss. This time it was the much traveled Jon Garland who stifled the Giants' bats. For his part, Wellemeyer was better than his start against the Dodgers, but still not what you are looking for even in a #5 starter. Oh, and the Padres took over first place in the NL West. Key lines:

Pablo Sandoval- 1 for 3, HR(3), BB. BA= .322.

Mark DeRosa- 2 for 4. DeRosa played 2B and hit 2'nd in the order, but his 2 hits failed to produce any scoring as the heart of the order, Huff and Molina, went a combined 0 for 8.

Juan Uribe- 1 for 3, BB. BA= .321. Uribe played SS today with DeRosa at 2B.

Todd Wellemeyer- 4 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 4 BB, 3 K's. This probably would have been a similar line to his last start against a better lineup. He threw 87 pitches in 4 IP.

Dan Runzler- 1.2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 0 BB, 0 K's. Runzler had been terrific up until this appearance. Wouldn't you know it would come in Petco?

I know the Giants are a different team at home and Petco has a history of holding special horrors for them, but one also has to wonder, and shudder, at the thought of what a good hitting and pitching team will do to them in the upcoming series. The Cards' pitching staff is competitive with, if not better than, the Giants staff, and they have that lineup.......

Around the League:

Rockies fall to Washington 6-4 to fall to 7-8. Dodgers outslug the Reds 14-6 to even their record at 7-7. Arizona lost to the Cards 9-4. The D'Back's fall to 6-9. So, the Giants stand in 2'nd place 1 game back of San Diego and 1/2 game ahead of the Dodgers and 1 ahead of the Rocks.

Speaking of the Cardinals' lineup, it looks like it just got a whole lot better as Colby Rasmus hit his 4'th and 5'th HR's of the season tonight. He's on my Savvy Vets fantasy team.

The AJ Pierzynski trade just got a lot worse too. Francisco Liriano's line tonight: 8 IP, 6 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 6 K's. His record now stands at 2-0 with a 1.29 ERA. He is also a member of the Savvy Vets.

2 comments:

  1. Since you mention it, I had been thinking recently about that trade, and I know it would have been better not to do that trade, but one of the happy consequences of that trade is that the Giants were not all that good in the aftermath of that trade, after AJ was let go, because of the talent lost and because Benitez was horrible, so we ended up getting the picks that got us Lincecum, Bumgartner, Posey, and Wheeler.

    We would not have gotten anywhere close to that talent if we had Nathan et al (plus the money for Benitez would have been used on other players or upgrades on who we did get), we would have been somewhere around .500 each season and getting picks in the teens probably, which don't usually net you good talent, though obviously it worked out for the Braves with Heyward, but he's the exception.

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  2. That is certainly one way of looking at it through a silver lining. On the other hand, with Nathan, the Giants might have gone all the way in 2004 instead of watching Steve Finley........

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