The Giants put up a fight, but in the end, it wasn't enough as Justin Upton hit a walk-off HR in the bottom of the 10'th to avoid as series sweep. Key Lines:
Aubrey Huff- 2 for 4. BA= .243. Huff is hitting .316 over his last 10 games and is 8 for 15 over his last 4.
Cody Ross- 1 for 3, BB, SB(4). BA= .270. Ross struck out with runners on first and third and no outs in the top of the ninth.
Pat Burrell- 0 for 0, SF. BA= .225. Burrell drove in the tying run with a sac fly in the bottom of the ninth. Ultimately, it wasn't enough.
Ryan Vogelsong- 6 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 1 BB, 6 K's. ERA= 1.92. Vogelsong made one bad pitch to Chris Young, a hanging curveball with Upton on first. He still had a QS and pitched every bit as well as Bumgarner the night before. It wasn't enough in this one as Ian Kennedy was tougher.
Jeremy Affeldt- 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 4 K's. ERA= 3.81. Affledt is pitching really well, which should be invaluable as the season stretches out.
Santiago Casilla- 1.1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 2 K's. Casilla had pitched well, retiring 3 LH batters out of the 4 outs he recorded. He elevated a fastball on the outer half of the plate to Upton and the kid took it the other way for a walk-off dinger. No shame in giving up a walkoff to the other team's best hitter. It happens. This loss was really on the offense.
With the Loss, the Giants lead over the Dangerous D'Backs in the NL West shrunk to 1.5 games. The rest of the division had the night off. The Rockies are 5.5 games back, the Dodgers 8.5 and the Padres 9.5.
The Giants come back to the Bay Area for an away series in Oakland. Tim Lincecum tries to right his ship facing Rookie Graham Godfrey in just his second MLB game. He got hit around a bit by the White Sox in his debut and sports an ERA of 10.38.
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Sure would like to see Brandon at least pick up a few more walks. He seems to be getting decent wood on the ball - it just the ball keeps finding gloves instead of the outfield grass. The K's seem down from his minor days..
ReplyDeleteTonight? Just one of those nights... They are trying!!!!!!!
The Giants hit a lot of balls hard right into fielders' gloves. Yeah, I think it was just one of those nights.
ReplyDeleteVogelsong did a great job with just average stuff. But after Chris Young went deep off a pretty good curve from Madbum Wed night, I can't believe Ryan threw a curve to Chris Young last night. I know you can't throw all fastballs, but it seems like they were tempting fate with that.
ReplyDeleteAgreed: good fight last night. And gotta keep reminding myself that all I was hoping for going into the series was 2 of 3.