Buster Posey picked up right where he left off last season leading the Giants offense to a 7-6 win over the D'Backs in the Cactus League opener. The convetional wisdom is the pitchers are ahead of the hitters at his stage, but Timmy and MadBum seemed to be easing back into action as the D'Backs scored put some early runs on the board. Key lines:
Andres Torres- 0 for 1, 2 BB, 2 R. Playing the leadoff role to perfection.
Buster Posey- 2 for 3, 2B. OMG! What can I say?
Pat Burrell- 1 for 3, 2B.
Aaron Rowand- 1 for 3, 2B. The Rowand/Torres/Burrell/Ross situation will be interesting to watch develop. Not sure whether to root for Rowand to do well so some other team will want to trade for him or whether to root for him to do poorly so Bochy isn't tempted to make him the starting CF and move Torres to RF or LF and start a musical chairs with Ross and Burrell.
Gary Brown and Darren Ford had SB's in pinch running roles.
Emmanuel Burriss committed a throwing error from 2B.
Tim Lincecum- 1.2 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 0 BB, 1 K. Timmy's delivery requires fine tuning and he may not have been dialing it up to full throttle just yet.
Madison Bumgarner- 2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 1 K. Looks like Timmy and MadBum were just trying to throw strikes as all but two of their combined pitches found the zone.
Javier Lopez- 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K's.
Sergio Romo- 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K's.
Jonathan Sanchez takes the mound tomorrow against half of a Dodgers split squad. Aubrey Huff is expected to start at 1B despite a recent sore wrist.
Addendum: Baggs has some important notes over on Extra Baggs:
Timmy's FB was sitting at 93 MPH. He didn't throw any split-changes. Did throw some sliders. Timmy apparently wants to do a better job of establishing the fastball this year.
MadBum ranged from 88-92 but mostly 91-92 MPH. Also a good sign for the future.
Sergio Romo has added a sinking 2 seamer to his repertoire and got a nice ground out from Miguel Montero. Romo sought out Jeremy Affeldt on how to grip the sinker and it's apparently working like a charm. Romo was stung by the dingers he gave up in the post-season and wants a pitch that will help him keep the ball in the park.
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Good to see that Romo added to his arsenal. Maybe it's just me, but I think that Romo's slider has more horizontal break than vertical break sometimes. Nonetheless, now his sinker makes his stuff even more filthy.
ReplyDeleteRomo's slider is defintely a horizontal breaker. According to Pitchfx, it's the biggest horizontal break in the business. His two seamer ran almost as much the opposite direction, but it was pretty horizontal too. By adding sink to it, he has a better weapon against LH batters. All 3 batters he faced yesterday were LH, and all 3 Lopez faced were RH. Good stuff!!
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