The Giants fought back from a 11-5 deficit due to an historically bad inning by Logan Webb only to lose it in tragic fashion on a skipped throw in the 9'th inning. Key Lines:
Turner Hill LF- 4 for 5, HBP 2 R, RBI. BA= .342. Hill had a great season in the minors before getting called up and is now raising his stock at the MLB level as much as anyone. Beware of rookies who go off with the bat early. They are not always the best players in the long run.
Rafael Devers 1B- 1 for 4, HR(31), 2 BB, R, 3 RBI. BA= .252. Devers capped a 5-run second inning with a 3-run HR to CF. If the Giants did not drop out of the postseason race early, we'd all be saying Devers got hot at the right time. He's on a 9-game hit streak during which he is batting .400 with 5 HR and 6 walks in 41 PA.
Bryce Eldridge DH- 1 for 4, 2 BB, R. BA= .263. Eldridge is batting .414 over his last 7 games and .345 over his last 15. Those splits are helped a lot by his 4-hit game from Game 2, 8/29. Eldridge has a reverse split against LHP vs RHP's.
Jonah Cox CF- 2 for 5, 2B, BB, R, RBI. BA= .294. Cox is batting .400 over his last 7 games. Again, he had a great season in the minors before his callup and is continuing to impress at the MLB level, especially with his game-changing speed.
Osleivis Basabe 2B/3B- 1 for 3, 2 BB, 2 R, RBI. BA= .211. Basabe had a nice game at the plate but moved to 3B after Nate Furman PH for Shay Whitcomb. Unfortunately his skipped throw in the 9'th which should have been the third out of the inning allowed the winning run to score.
Drew Cavanaugh C- 3 for 5, 2 2B, R, 2 RBI. BA= .243. Cavanaugh is probably winning a place on next season's team with his lefty bat. Fangraphs gives him a positive rating behind the plate too.
Nate Furman PH/2B- 1 for 1, 2 RBI. BA= .200. Tony Vitello brought in the lefty hitting Furman to face Luke Weaver RHP with the bases loaded and the Giants trailing by 2 runs in the 8'th inning. Furman made the book move pay off with a 2-RBI single.
Christian Koss SS- 2 for 5, 2 R, RBI. BA= .203. Fangraphs gives Christian positive defensive ratings but he needs to find more consistency with the bat.
Logan Webb RHP- 2 IP, 9 H, 2 BB, 1 K. ERA= 4.21. It's not unusual for Webb to give up runs in the first inning but it's definitely not usual for him to give up 7 runs in the third inning. All of the 9 hits he gave up were singles and 5 were ground ball singles so there was definitely some bad BABIP stuff going on but this was Webb's second disaster start out of his last 3. Maybe time to think about shutting him down for the season or maybe at least skip a start?
Cesar Perdomo LHP- 4 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 4 K's. ERA= 2.25. The Dawn of the Cesar Perdomo Era! He's not one of the Giants higher rated pitching prospects but I saw him pitch for the SJ Giants in 2024 and was impressed by his command of a 3-pitch mix. That's what we saw tonight. He moved a 94 MPH fastball around the strike zone and got swing-throughs with it. His main secondary pitch was the slider but the 3 change ups he threw got outs for him. The rest of this season is all about finding positives for the future. Perdomo, Anthony Molina RHP, Yunior Marte RHP and Matt Wilkinson LHP have all impressed in their opportunities so far.
Trent Harris RHP- 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K's. ERA= 3.75. Harris is probably winning a spot in next year's bullpen with his work since being called up.
Landen Roupp RHP gets the start tonight facing Jared Jones RHP who comes in with a 4.83 ERA.
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