The Giants faced a pitcher they had never seen before for the second straight game. The results were pretty much the same as Jesse Hahn shut down the Giants offense and the Pesky Padres took advantage of 6 leadoff baserunners and a fielding mistake by rookie Joe Panik to easily put away the Giants in very similar fashion to Game 1 of the 3 game series. Key Lines:
Tim Hudson- 5.2 IP, 9 H, 6 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 4 K's. ERA= 2.62. Huddy uncharacteristically put the leadoff hitter on in all 6 of his innings. He got 3 of them on DP ground balls, but the other 3 came around to score and helped set up 2 of the other 3 Padre scores. 2 of the runs were unearned when rookie Joe Panik missed a catch on a force attempt at 2B which led to the lead runner scoring as well as an additional run that scored after 2 were out. Panik's other error was on one of the leadoff runners and was erased by a DP.
Jesse Hahn(Padres)- 6 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 1 BB, 8 K's. ERA= 2.38. I thought Hahn was an interesting draft prospect out of West Virginia in the 2012 draft. After a rough MLB debut on June 5, he has reeled off 19 consecutive scoreless innings with 22 K's against 6 BB's. He has a 4 seam and 2 seam FB with a curve and slider. I did not see any definite change ups, but he had the Giants reaching for his offspeed stuff all night, at least during the time I was watching. You could see why he would be very tough to hit until these MLB batters have seen him a time or two.
The Dodgers blanked the KC Royals 2-0 behind Clayton Kershaw so the Giants lead in the NL West shrinks to 3 games. At this point, though, it does not matter what the Dodgers do, if the Giants don't get their feet under them and fast, they are going to blow their lead in the standings. Right now, they are not just losing, they are getting dominated and by teams they should be beating. Again, a common denominator is the health and presence of Angel Pagan which is lacking at the moment.
Tim Lincecum tries to avoid another humiliating series sweep facing Ian Kennedy in an afternoon game.
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We had a team meeting. Bumgarner pitched a great game - that should have been uplifting, but I guess it didn't carry for long. We just go beat 0-6 and 2-7 by the Padres. Still not sure if Romo can close a game without a screaming line drive to the outfield.
ReplyDeleteIt's hopeless.
Maybe this is where the season bottoms and we still looking up.
'...we start looking up.'
DeleteYeah, a lot like last year when they were in first place then went to Toronto and the season fell apart.
DeleteSure has been uncomfortable watching lately ( save of course Sunday). A side from needing healthy Angel and the return of Brandon B and may be a little Scoots in the top of the batting order. I see a major decision to bring another "real" starting pitcher in. And none to soon. Keeps all toes and fingers crossed.
ReplyDeleteRichard in Winnipeg
Pagan is getting DL'd. Who gets the call? Duvall 80%, Gary Brown 10% and a pen arm 10%? Or is that leaning into the Duvall hype too much?
ReplyDeleteThe pitchers the Giants haven't seen before just roll tide. So frustrating!
Your guess is as good as mine. I will say this about Brownie: I'm not sure it does anybody any good to keep him on the treadmill of poor performance in the wake of every callup that's not him. Why not call him up and see if that vote of confidence doesn't put a spark in him? Either that or just trade him out of the organization, already.
DeleteI agree with your take about Brown, big tim.e
DeleteBrown and Juan Perez would appear to be pretty interchangeable. The one thing Perez really has hurting him is he cannot take a walk, with Frank E Peggs gone, he's the biggest hacker in the system. Brown isn't known for that either, but he's at least a 6% with a fairly good contact rate (getting worse as he ages/levels). I agree, why not turn Gary Brown loose and see how he hangs. Who knows how the coaching has been going for the past year. But Gary has had his 2K pro PAs plus some, it might be time.
DeleteHe can at least defend very well. And he might be a good fit for a platoon with Blanco. But sticking him at leadoff to see what happens would be a pretty hail mary move on an org that doesn't usually do these types of things.
With the lack of tweets from players I'm starting to think its yet another boring reliever callup. Welcome back George Kontos?
DeleteNope, its Duvall. Kudos to him for keeping his mouth shut as he travels.
DeleteThis is completely exciting - our grinders are coming to play. Just remember, if it was the Cards system, there would be a ton of talk about "how do they find these guys". Because its the Giants, its all about how much of a haircut will the PCL numbers take.
Too bad he is going to ride the pine more than start, wouldn't want to get a real evaluation.
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