The D'Backs took advantage of an exhausted pitching staff in a merciless beatdown in the Giants home ballpark. Key Lines:
Steven Duggar made a great catch. Pablo Sandoval had 2 hits coming in off the bench. We'll give the key line to Tyler Austin who hit his 3'rd HR in 3 games. Toonder! Now Boch and Farhan have to figure out how to use him. Seems like he might be too good to limit to the short side of a platoon with Belt. Could he handle LF with more experience?
Drew Pomeranz LHP- 2.2 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 1 BB, 6 K's. ERA= 6.45. The D'Backs TV feed showed Pomeranz warming up. I thought it looked like he was protecting his side and/or shoulder, but he had a good fastball in the game which produced swinging strikes and 6 K's out of 8 outs recorded. I was watching the game out of the corner of my eye while preparing dinner, but it sounded like his secondary pitches didn't have much on them. There was also come BABIP bad luck. Of the 8 hits he gave up, there was 1 HR, 3 hard LD's, 1 soft LD, 3 GB's. Enigma.
Bullpen- 6.1 IP, 13 H, 13 R, 9 ER, 2 BB, 6 K's. This is what happens when you rely on "5 and dive" SP's and expect 4-5 innings out of your bullpen day in and day out. It's not sustainable. You can mitigate it some by shuttling relievers on and off the DL and up and down from AAA, but at some point you need SP's who can reliably give you 7+ innings.
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The Loss put the Giants 11.5 games behind the Dodgers in the NL West and 7 games behind in the Wild Card race. My rule is you are out of postseason contention when you are 10 or more games out of the Wild Card. At this rate we're about 1 week away from sticking a fork in the Giants season.
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The Giants send LHP Andrew Suarez out today to see if he can give them another QS facing rookie RHP Taylor Clarke who also got pounded in the PCL but is coming off a good MLB start.
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Word this AM that Yaz the Younger is getting the callup. No word on who's getting shipped out. I know there are a lot of Yaz bandwagoners out there, but y'all might want to curb your enthusiasm. He's 28 yo and in his 4'th AAA season. It also might be too late to catch lightening in a bottle with him as he's 0 for 8 with 2 BB's and 4 K's in his last 2 games.
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All Star Game: Do they still have to pick at least ONE from each team?
ReplyDeleteOther than reputation, Smith with 12 of 12 Saves is the closest Giant to being a candidate, and no everyday player is close without ballot box stuffing.
Because the post July 31 waiver trade has been eliminated, the Giants veteran for sale sign should get posted soon else be stuck with left overs in final days
MAC DFA's..well deserved..he got his chance several times..good guy..hopefully he can find "it" with another organzation..but YAZ the younger ???..Just more of FARHAN throwing long term AAA players agasint the wall to see if anything will stick..It's doubtful with YAZ..just a name..Slater has a little more youth going for him, and has been playing just as well in SAC,..Oh well..
ReplyDeleteSo, how much longer for Pomerantz and Holland?..Just looks like a perfect storm of bad for Holland now especially as a reliever, something he doesnt want to do..Both he and the Giants are doing everything to get him DFA..Pomerantz looks like the Pomerantz of last year, not a good thing..I would guess Beede will be recalled soon and hopefully given a string of starts
SteveVA
pomeranz may be heading back to the injured list after today. maybe they call up blach and go with a bullpen game every fifth game until drod is back on track
DeleteThis blog is helping to keep me into the Giants in 2019. I tried watching the game and it was just such a beatdown I couldn't keep pretending to care, especially on a beautiful Friday night on a holiday weekend in the Bay Area! I much appreciate your sobering observations about an obviously worn down relief staff, which I still have to believe is this team's strength. But coming off the previous night's extra-innings loss, the writing so to speak was on the wall. I also didn't see any glaring weaknesses in Pomeranz's stuff in the early going, but my observation was he wasn't mixing his pitches too effectively -- maybe having Vogt catching didn't help, at least defensively? Looked to me like Pomeranz lost his confidence pretty early in the game. Then his breaking stuff started missing, by a lot.
ReplyDeleteThis blog does help following the team from Hawaii. Judging from past articles I've read, Zaidi is operating how he always has with the Dodgers and A's : Cutting costs, improving depth, raising floor of the org. I think it's way to early to judge a GM after 50 games, and interested to see what's comes next.
DeleteAaron Altherr hits a pinch hit bomb in his first at bat for the Mets. Might be the only homerun he hits but it is still a bit if a slap in the face to Fantasy Farhan. I dropped Keston Huira in one of my leagues the other day and now im really mad at myself. Farhan probably feels the same way when hes making moves on his fantasy baseball team called the San Francisco Giants. This has been nothing short of a head scratching year so far where moves like dumping Altherr after one at bat give me little faith in the decision making of our Fantasy GM.
ReplyDeleteNo matter how good they are defensively as outfielders, you need at least one and preferably 2 who can hit over .250 and slug above the .300's, especially if the IFers aren't much better.
ReplyDeleteYour 2019 San Francisco Giants are a sorry excuse for a team!
On the bright side, here is Cody Ross hitting a hole-in-one at Pebble Beach last week:
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We could use Cody!