Steven Duggar CF- 0 for 3, BB. BA= .255. Duggar was the hero for the second game in a row, this time for drawing a 1-out walk in the 9'th. Nick Hundley followed with a line-drive single to deep LF. Duggar took a very wide turn at 2B, in fact, Kuip thought he was going for it. Instead, he slammed on the breaks, got it turned around and barely beat the relay to 2B jamming his left shoulder in the process. Duggar stayed down, in obvious pain while the trainers scrambled out to check on him. He ultimately stayed in the game and appeared to have full range of motion in the shoulder.
With runners at 2'nd and 3'rd and 1 out, Bochy announced Alen Hanson as the PH for Will Smith. Hanson is a much better hitter from the left side than R so the D'backs countered with lefty Jake Diekman replacing RHP Brad Ziegler. Boch countered with Gorkys Hernandez who was first pitch hunting and jumped on a pitch over the plate lining into into LF with Duggar easily scoring from 2B.
After the game, Duggar said he could feel the shoulder pop out of its socket but then go right back in. With shoulder separations, you always worry about a torn rotator cuff. The clue to a torn rotator cuff is an inability to raise your arm, which Duggar was clearly doing, so it would seem the rotator cuff is at least not fully torn. I thought I saw something sticking up under Duggar's shirt at the top of the shoulder which could be an acromioclavicular separation. We'll see. No final diagnosis until he he re-examined later today. At least it was not his throwing shoulder.
Madison Bumgarner LHP- 7 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 4 BB, 5 K's. ERA= 2.68. Not quite as sharp as his last start in which he allowed 1 ER in 8 IP, but with 0 BB and 8 K's. His best pitching might have been in the 7'th inning after another flat drop by Austin Slater allowed Jon Jay to reach 3B with just 1 out. After a walk to AJ Pollack, Bummy calmly got Goldy to pop out and Eduard Escobar to ground out to 2B Joe Panik. BTW, Austin Slater might seriously think about investing in a new OF glove.
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The Rockies and Dodgers both won, so the Giants Win dropped the D'Backs into a tie with the Rockies for the NL West lead and cut the 4'th place Giants deficit to 6 games. The Dodgers trail by 1 game in 3'rd place.
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Young Dereck Rodriguez tries to keep his magical season going and for a swwweeeeep tonight facing Zack Godley.
Well, that was a dramatic game. Hopefully Duggar isn't too banged up.
ReplyDeleteGiants beating excellent pitching by using better pitching and timely hitting. When have we seen that before? Lee, Halladay, Verlander, Scherzer....... I wonder when we've seen this before. Keep it up, guys. Perhaps Duggar gets today off. Be well, sir.
ReplyDeleteHow many games this season have the G's won or lost to scores of 1-0?
ReplyDelete1 in August
Delete1 in June
2 in March
every time I am ready to write this team off they surprise me ... a shutout sweep would be awesome
DeleteLooks like the HR revolution hit a pot hole... Over 6,100 HRs last year. Just over 4,500 this year. There's about 5 weeks or so left to play, but I don't see it coming within 500 of last year. It'll still be, relative baseball history, a great year, one of the highest ever in the pre/post steroid eras, but we may have plateaued.
ReplyDeleteOh, and looking all that up, I found this:
"Hank Aaron holds the Major League record for most home runs hit in a career without EVER striking out more than one hundred times in a season."
Now that was hitting. Never struck out a 100 times in a season. In TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS he never struck out one hundred times in a single season. And had a career .305 average and 755 HRs. I remember watching the highlight clips every time he hit a HR his last year with the Braves. There's probably a clip of it on YouTube.
Your comment got me curious about Ted Williams. Based on his before and after performances when he missed baseball for WW II and Korean War, I estimated that Williams probably would have broken Ruth's HR record during his career. He only broke 50 strikeouts in a season three times, once in his first season with 64 and once in his second season with 54 and once in his fourth season with 51. So he was even better, never broke 65 strikeouts in his career.
DeleteAaron was a true great. One of the baseball memories that still rattles around in this old brain is watching him break Babe Ruth's record, I can still see that in my mind. I even did the nerd thing and I made some sort of plaster of paris baseball plaque with the number 715 to commemorate the moment.