Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Game Wrap 9/18/2019: Giants 11 Red Sox 3

The Giants gave Hall of Fame Manager Bruce Bochy a chance to sit back and enjoy his 2000'th career win in a runaway game in Fenway Park.  Key Lines:

Mike Yastrzemski RF- 1 for 4, BB.  BA= .265.  YtE(Yaz the Elder) threw out the first pitch and stuck around for the game.  YtY(Yaz the Younger) continued to do the Hall of Fame proud leading off the game with a walk and scoring the Giants first run of the game.  He singled in a run later in the game and came around to score a second time himself.

Brandon Belt 1B- 2 for 5, 2B.  BA- .238.  Belt is on an extended hot streak hitting .345 over his last 7 games, .296 over his last 15 and .280 over his last 30.

Kevin Pillar CF- 3 for 5,  SB(12).  BA= .261.  Top 3 hitters in the Giants lineup reached base 7 times in 15 PA's and scored 6 runs.

Steven Vogt DH- 1 for 3, HR(10), BB.  BA= .263. Vogt's HR was a line drive that barreled up Pesky's Pole and caromed straight back down the RF line.  One of the darndest HR's I've ever seen!

Brandon Crawford SS- 2 for 5, 2B.  BA= .236. Crawford is making a lat bid to come within hailing distance of his career averages.  He's hitting .417 over his last 7 games, .271 over his last 15 and .289 over his last 30.

Cristhian Adames 3B- 3 for 5.  BA= .500.  This was a nice game for padding the stat line and Adames took advantage of the opportunity.

Jeff Samardzija RHP- 6 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 4 BB, 2 K's, GO/AO= 8/3.  ERA= 3.64.  Shark took a no-hitter into the 6'th inning and ended up with a nice QS.  The 4 walks are ugly, but I guess we can say he was effectively wild?

Enderson Franco RHP- 1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 1 K.  ERA= 9.00.  You could see Bochy's eyes light up when Franco came in throwing 97 MPH heat.  Then Jackie Bradley Jr lifted one onto the top of the Green Monster for a pop fly HR.  Hopefully we'll see more of Franco and his FB before the season is over.  Just the velocity along makes him a candidate to be the Giants Closer next year.

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Madison Bumgarner goes for the sweeeeep in Fenway tomorrow afternoon(morning out here) facing the Red Sox most effective SP LHP Eduardo Rodriguez.

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AFL Opener still in progress but Joey Bart has homered twice.

1 comment:

  1. Melancon got the save today, his 11th in 11 opportunities for Atlanta. He was 1 for 1 with SF.)
    Today's starter pitched 5, then 3 RPs gave up 2 runs, 1 in the 6th & 1 in the 8th, until Melancon came in to pitch the 9th with the score 5-4. Struck out 2 giving him 22 in 16.2 innings.
    Excluding Melancon, the Braves have 33 saves and 22 blown saves.
    Perhaps they did know what they were doing...

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