Spring Training Game Wrap 2/25/2019: Cubs 9 Giants 5

The Giants showed up for Game 2 of spring training and would have won the game except for that 8-spot in the 2'nd inning.  Key Lines:

Joe Panik 2B- 3 for 3, HR(1).  BA= 1.000.  Panik is coming off a down season plagued by injuries.  He's in his final year before hitting free agency.  Bet on a big bounceback!

Brandon Belt 1B- 1 for 2, HR(1), BA= .500.  Belt struggled with a bout of appendicitis and later a knee injury last season.  Is this the season he finally stays healthy and hits 30 dingers?  or at least 25? His 2 run dinger in the first inning got the Giants off to a temporary lead.

Alen Hanson SS- 1 for 2, HR(1).  BA= .500.  Hanson has kind of been forgotten with all the late dumpster dives.  He's got a long row to hoe to make this team, but he helped his cause today.

Joey Bart C- 1 for 2.  BA= .500.  Bart gets his first work behind the plate and singles on a grounder up the middle for his first hit to get past the IF.

Madison Bumgarner LHP- 1 IP, 5 H, 6 R, 0 BB, 1 K.  ERA= 54.00.  Bummy sailed through he first inning on 8 pitches then did not record an out in the 2'nd.  the last 3 hits were grounders and the last 2 were infield hits, so there was a bit of BABIP luck going on here.  Perhaps the most important note from his start comes from Maria Guardado of sfgiants.com who reports that a scout got a 93 on his gun on one of Bummy's FB's.

Tyler Beede RHP- 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K, GO/AO= 3/1.  ERA= 0.00.  Beede unveiled his scaled back pitch mix and new grips and it went well.  Hopefully this is the start of a big bounceback season for him.

Logan Webb RHP- 1.2 IP, 2 H, 2 BB, 2 K's, GO/AO= 2/0.  ERA= 0.00.  Mixed bag spring debut for Webb, but the 2 K's and 2 GB outs are positives.

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The Giants stay in Scottsdale to take on the White Sox tomorrow afternoon with Derek Holland getting the start.

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Still Waiting for Bryce.  Inneresting that Phillies owner, John Middleton, was determined to not leave Las Vegas without Bryce Harper's signature on a contract.  Well, it's being reported that he did, in fact, fly back home to Philly alone and without a signature.  Weird!

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Clayton Kershaw has been shut down with shoulder pain which is being blamed on attempts to increase his velocity over the winter.  Hmmm.....