The Giants offense broke out the long ball in outscoring the Brewers on a night when balls seemed to be carrying very well at Miller Park. Key Lines:
Melky Cabrera- 1 for 3, BB, Assist(Aoki at home).- BA= .360. Melky GUNNED down Aoki at home an a sac fly attempt. The ball was not all that shallow and Melky threw a seed on the fly with Buster making the sweep tag. Aoki was out by at least 2 feet.
Buster Posey- 2 for 4, 2B, HR(6). BA= .300. Buster has started elevating the ball better and the results speak for themselves. The dinger was a monster that exploded off the bottom of the scoreboard at least 50 ft above the top of the CF fence. You could tell the other Giants players in the dugout were in awe. One by one they came up to where he was sitting, almost like a pilgrimage. Brett Pill looked like a student sitting at the feet of a master teacher while Buster made a gesture with his hand like a jet taking off except he was jabbing it forward in a downward plane. Dang! I'd sure like to know what Buster was saying!
Joaquin Arias- 1 for 4, HR(1). BA= .237. Arias put a charge into one too to drive in 2 runs. He's been playing a stellar 3B in Pablo's absence, but can't quite replace Pablo's bat.
Gregor Blanco- 0 for 4, 3 K's. BA= .244. Blanco is 1 for 15 with 1 walk in his last 3 games.
Matt Cain- 7 IP, 11 H, 4 R, 0 BB, 8 K's. ERA= 2.94. All of Cainer's K's came while working out of the stretch. Now is that bearing down, or what? Cain has only allowed 10 BB's against 62 K's in 64.1 IP this year.
The Win put the Giants 3 games above .500 for the first time this season, but it did not help them gain ground on the Dodgers who came from behind to top the D'Backs 8-7 to remain 7 games up on the Giants. D'Backs, Rockies and Padres all lost to fall farther off the pace, 11.5 games for the D'Backs and 14.5 for the Rockes and Padres. The Giants are 1 game behind the Marlins for the last Wild Card spot and 0.5 games behind the Cincinnati Reds. They are tied with the Mets.
Barry Zito takes the mound today against Marco Estrada. Don't know much about Estrada. He's 0-3 and the Brewers have lost 8 of 10 that he has pitched, but his ERA is a not terrible 4.63.
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DocB thanks for all the write ups and insights, appreciate your work.
ReplyDeleteAppreciate Melky's work too. Just WoW!
Posey is owning the game right now, how do you take him out - good problem.
Stay the course with Blanco.
Arias has saved my sanity - one of Burriss/Culbie/Riot/Conor G is bad enough, but two is unwatchable. A player's first MLB HR is always watchable.
Please Zito keep it down today, Brewer's want revenge badly and the bullpen needs 6.
Looks like the old Zito rearing his ugly head. Errors don't help, but neither does walking all those guys either or giving up the double in a pressure situation.
ReplyDeleteHope we can get out of it relatively close still for the offense. Lucky we aren't wasting a Posey start on this one.
Burriss got the start again today, surprised he didn't sit after that bonehead play. Looks like Culberson is going to go back down when Theriot is ready, not that he did anything to warrant otherwise, but was hoping he would get some chances against RHP, not like Burriss has been great.
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