The Giants have won 62 games this year. They have scored 5 or more runs in 38 of those Wins and 20 of the Wins have been by a margin of more than 3 runs. Not sure what that means but it just seems like when they are good, they are very good. So, I looked up their Pythagorean projection and they are only 2 games off how many they theoretically should have won. Oh well!
Johnny Cueto lasted 6 innings and Jarrett Parker and Nick Hundley led a sustained offensive attack against the D'Backs B squad one day after they clinched a playoff berth. Key Lines:
Hunter Pence RF- 2 for 5, HR(13). BA= .260. Pence is hitting .290 in September after hitting .290 in August. He's actually hit pretty good in 4 of the months of the season but his May and July were awful.
Buster Posey C- 2 for 4, BB. BA= .315. Buster is playing pepper with the OF's. He is 8 for 23 over his last 6 games with 1 XBH.
Jarrett Parker LF- 3 for 4, 2 2B. BA= .250. Parker was playing pepper with the OF wall and may have left a couple of dents. Those balls were hit hard!
Nick Hundley C- 2 for 3, HR(9), BB. BA= .252. In his comments after the game, Bochy sure sounded like he was ready to sign up Hundley to be the starting catcher with Buster moving over to 1B most of the time. He said "you just don't know" when asked about whether Belt would be ready for next season.
Johnny Cueto RHP- 6 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 8 K. ERA= 4.43. Assuming Cueto does not opt out of his contract, it is important for the Giants to go into next season with confidence that he is healthy and can still be an effective SP. He kind of showed that tonight. Kruk and Kuip were all over him for his high pitch counts, though.
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The Win dropped the Giants back into a tie with the Phillies in the race for the #1 overall draft pick(I believe the Phillies hold the tiebreaker with a worse record last year). The Giants are 0.5 games up on the Tigers and 2.5 up on the White Sox.
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Matt Moore tries to extend his good pitching tonight facing lefty Robbie Ray.
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Hopefully we can resign Hundley.
ReplyDeleteDo you know the probable pitchers for this weekend at AT&T?
Nope on Probables. Cain is scheduled to start one of the games but that might be just a 1 inning cameo.
DeleteHuntley has been great, but how much would you value the downgrade going from Hundley to Belt? Plus another bench spot likely going to a 3rd catcher instead of one of the young outfielders.
ReplyDeleteHundley is on the wrong side of 30, and should rightly chase his final everyday job and payday. If he somehow stays with the giants on a discount? Great.
Yeah, I'm not sold that Hundley/Posey is a better combination than Belt/Posey, but Boch sure sounded like he was ready for it in his comments last night.
DeleteWhat you write about Moore tomorrow isn't going to be pretty...
ReplyDeleteNot sure if I would like Hundley/Posey combo either, but the impression I got from an article was Bochy wouldn't mind a change at 1st base and not to rule out a Belt trade.
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I would say Boch did not say anything to change that impression in his postgame comments either.
DeleteWith Belt putting his house on the market, maybe they let him know they're going to shop him. Just a thought.
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