Jake Peavy outpitched Zack Greinke for 7 innings and Alejandro De Aza won the game with a Sac Fly in the bottom of the 12'th inning to keep the Dodgers from celebrating a NL West Division Championship for at least 1 more day. Key Lines:
Kelby Tomlinson- 2 for 5. BA= .299. The two hits are not the story here. Tomlinson, who has had his defensive struggles, made a series of scintillating plays to support Peavy's pitching. Sometimes young players get exposed the longer they play, but this kid has only gotten better as his playing time has extended.
Trevor Brown- 2 for 4, 2B, BB. BA= .308. And what about Brown getting the big hit off Greinke? A two run double to the right-CF gap in the 2'nd inning which drove in the only runs the Giants would need until the game went into extra innings.
Jake Peavy- 7 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 4 K's. ERA= 3.66. Peavy outpitched Greinke here and has come on so strong in here at the end of the season. He now has 4 QS's in a row while allowing 2 runs or less in each of them. Hopefully his good health and success will carry over into next season.
Madison Bumgarner tries to deny the Dodgers for another day tonight facing Clayton Kershaw. Nice matchup!
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KT's "clinic," as it was called last night by the broadcasters, was no surprise to those of us who have watched him night after night while he was here in RVA, and have continued to follow him as he continued his defensive prowess in Sacto. What surprised us was his shaky start in San Fran. That was so uncharacteristic of him. But that's obviously a thing of the past, that some, not so much here, but on other blogs just can't seem to accept. They seem to be afraid to admit that at this point, not having JP at 2B is no longer a problem, at least defensively. Everyone, including me, hopes Joe is back 100% next year, but if not, there's no need to worry. Spec's has it covered!
ReplyDeleteAgree, Nutzy. I'd chalk the shaky start up to plain old nerves- it's not everyone who hits the ground running after their call up. I'd add that while everyone in the media, including Giants announcers, are amazed that Kelby has done an incredible job of 'adjusting' to the new spot at 2B, the truth is that he spent half of the 2014 season there, completing a very proficient Squirrels middle infield with Duffy at SS.
Deletenot sure why bochy chose to send osich out for a second inning, was he the most rested in the pen?
ReplyDeletegood win....bums still dont impress me...right now, even with greinke and kershaw, they may not have enough to get out of the lds
with how the farm guys have been contributing, i wonder if the critics will ever shut up about how the giants have a terrible farm system
bacci
Ah, but there is a perverse logic that goes something like this: Everytime someone like Tomlinson, who was a no-prospect in their eyes, ends up in the majors, the farm system is weakened. Plus since we had dredge up a 'no-prospect' to fill a role, it further proves we lack 'real' prospects. So... HA! HA! Check-mate!!!
DeleteSeriously, I think that's how they think.
Harper Papelbon fight all over the news. What you think about it DrB?
ReplyDeletePapelbons pitched 23.2 innings for the Nationals (63.1 over-all) this year and is, like so many relievers, a pampered pet. Harper, OTOH, has been busting his ass nine innings a game 148 games now. Heat. Cold. Rain. And all the rest of the miserable weather that goes on out there 9-innings a game. And he's put in enough effort to be the leading candidate for NL Player of the Year.
DeleteMeanwhile the Nationals have been eliminated so 'playing hard,' the last five or six games is kind of pointless. Especially in something that was so routine that it'd take a rare error to make the play work (pop-fly). It's best to, at this point in time, for most players to play conservatively and lower the risks of hurting themselves in a lost and pointless cause (getting into the playoffs).
The only exception is if you're playing a team that is still in the play-off hunt. Then you play hard because the game does matter. Even it doesn't matter for you. But when you're playing the Reds.... It just doesn't matter. Nothing will change except a possible draft slot.
Yet this new-comer, pampered pet is going to rag on Harper? I wish that Harper would have hit him hard enough in self-defense to knock his *** out.
To put it simply, it's never over until it's over. With each passing Bums loss, our hope rises for what would become nothing short of a monumental collapse by them, and an unlikely and amazing kid-driven Gigantes comeback that absolutely no one would have predicted.
ReplyDeleteAll one needs to do is recall the '04 WS, to remind ourselves once again that this is baseball. It can happen... on a dime, baby.
Tomlinson is probably a case of a young player needing a bit of time to adjust to the "speed of the big league game" as Kruk and Kuip point out a lot. Some players get overwhelmed, lose confidence and flounder for a long time, while others find themselves after initial struggles. It seems many of the Giants rookies in recent years have found themselves pretty quickly, which I think is a good reflection on not only the players themselves but the scouts, minor league coaches and the big league coaches who find and cultivate these players. I have grown more and more impressed with the Giants player development system, despite the overwhelming criticism it receives nationally.
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