Madison Bumgarner rebounded from one of the worst starts in the history of baseball, to pitch one of the most dominant starts of his young career. Jeremy Affeldt added 2 more dominant frames as the two Giants pitchers struck out a total of 16 Indians. The Giants completed the series sweep and a 5-1 homestand after MadBum's horrific start in that first game against the Twins. Key Lines:
Pablo Sandoval- 2 for 3, 2B. BA= .290. Pablo looked good at the plate tonight but pulled up with a lame quad and came out of the game early. Hope it's not another trip to the DL. The Giants need his bat. Quads can either be nothing or a full 6 weeks on the DL. Hope it's the former.
Bill Hall- 1 for 3, BB. SB(2). Hall scored one run and should have scored another. He was on 3B and broke for home on what he thought was a suicide squeeze. Only problem was Bum missed the sign, swung away and missed leaving a suprised Hall hung out to dry in a rundown.
Chris Stewart- 1 for 3, 2B, BB. BA= .171. CStew had a good day at the plate and another great one behind it. He gunned down Grady Sizemore on a steal attempt at 3B after Sizemore got a good jump and Bum took forever to release the ball. The call at 3B was questionable, but it was a great throw anyway.
Madison Bumgarner- 7 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 11 K's. ERA= 3.84. Bumgarner had it all working tonight, Fastball, cutter, slider, pinpoint accuracy on his dart-like throws, high, low, inside, outstide. I mean, it was all there tonight. He seemed to get stronger as the game went on. Credit CStew for calling a great game too.
Jeremy Affeldt- 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K's. ERA= 3.51. Didn't matter which batter's box they were standing in, Affeldt was unhittable tonight. He's got a 0.79 ERA over his last 10 appearances and has 16 K's against just 2 BB's in 11.1 IP. His current hot streak goes actually goes back 15.1 IP, to May 31 in which he has given up exactly 1 ER for an ERA of 0.58! How many Giants fans were ready to throw him under the bus just a few weeks ago?
With the W, the Giants were able to stretch their lead in the NL West to 1.5 games over the D'Backs who lost to the Detroit Tigers 8-3. The Rockies lost to the Yankees 6-4 to slip 5.5 games behind the Giants while the Dodgers kept pace, 9.5 games back, with come-from-behind 3-2 win over the Angels. The Padres maintained in last place 10.5 games behind with a 4-1 win over ATL.
The Giants have tomorrow off to travel to Chicago for the second time this year to take on the Cubs. Tuesday will be a doubleheader with Ryan Vogelsong and Barry Zito as the Giants starters taking on Doug Davis and Rodrigo Lopez. Neither Davis nor Lopez are good pitchers so even with Zito starting, the Giants should have a reasonably good chance at sweeping the DH. Of course, all bets are off with this offense, especially if Pablo can't go.
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madbum was outstanding...really shoulda had a shoutout...ump forgot he had to make the call on third base line and wasnt looking...guessed that it had landed foul
jeremy threw himself under the bus when he said he couldnt figure out why he wasnt throwing well....well, he has figured it out
that was an old school 2 inning save
espn should no longer be allowed to broadcast baseball
forget the fact that valentine is an absolute irritant, who is using the show to lobby for a gig as a manager, but whoever is directing has no clue what he is doing...might as well go back to the 3 camera system...i could follow the game better
wait till you see the box score from the fresno game...fyi,kroon had the batter down 1-2 before he gave up the dinger
Pretty easy to see why Bobby Valentine can never seem to get or keep a MLB job. Dude would be absolutely insufferable in the clubhouse and dugout. All the players would get as far away from him as possible. He did make some pretty good technical points tonight. I learned a few things from watching and listening to him, but yeah, the guy is incredibly irritating.
ReplyDeleteHow is Affeldt saying he couldn't figure out why he wasn't throwing well, throwing himself under the bus? He was just being honest. A lot of fans are idiots.
Agreed. This is what we have on ESPN over John Miller Joe Morgan? An absolute joke.
ReplyDeleteok...valentine commented on where nate was positioned...prob is, nate is very good at coming in on balls...and in the belle, you gotta cheat to cover triples alley
ReplyDeletehis commenting on base running depending where the ball is hit...has been said a billion times before
and do the viewers really need to be reminded over and over how the giants offense is awful...he sounded almost joyful about it
i think that i learned more from hershheiser, who really went into what carmona's issues were with runners on base
when a pitcher says he has no clue why he is not throwing well...it is somewhat disconcerting to the fans...that is all i meant
chron is reporting that they are thinking about bringing up runzler to go in detroit....they havent been watching his starts...have they?
Yeah, not sure Runzler would be of much help. He's no lock to make it out of the first inning.
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