Giants bats mostly flailed at a steady stream of junkballs from Yu Darvish RHP while Matt Wisler RHP's slider-heavy approach once again failed to impress opposing hitters. Game Notes:
Kruk and Kuip pointed out that the solo HR by Brandon Crawford SS in the third inning came of the last fastball Darvish would throw for a strike all evening. Giants hitters couldn't hit his offspeed stuff and couldn't lay off enough to force him to go back to the FB.
Aaron Sanchez RHP looked really good for 4 innings spotting a FB that went 91-93 MPH on both sides of the plate mixed in with effective offspeed stuff. He lost velocity in the 5'th inning and the Padres hitters squared him up but some nice BABIP luck got him through the inning. Nice start to the season for Sanchez considering he only pitched 5.2 innings all spring.
Matt Wisler RHP was once again ineffective with his one-trick-pony slider approach. I'm no pitching coach or scout, but that pitch just does not look effective enough to be a stand alone pitch for anybody. Maybe he'll find some bite to the slider and be an effective hold guy but right now he looks like he could be one of the first guys in the pen who are replaced.
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Giants ace Kevin Gausman RHP tries for a series win today vs Blake Snell LHP.
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