The two newest members of the Giants bullpen gave up 3 runs, but it didn't matter as the one run Jeff Samardzija gave up in his 4 innings/98 pitches of work was all the Nationals needed to overcome an impotent Giants offense. Key Lines:
Lineup- 7 for 33, 0 BB, 3 K's. The first 5 batters in the lineup had 1 hit each all in different innings. Jeff Samardzija had the only XBH but failed to score from 2'nd on a single by Mike Yastrzemski in the 3'rd inning, the only inning in which the Giants had more than one baserunner.
Jeff Samardzija RHP- 4 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 3 BB, 3 K's. ERA= 3.70. I know the current rage is to value quality over quantity in starting pitching and let the bullpen pick up the slack, but come on! 98 pitches to 18 batters in 4 innings? By contrast Nationals SP Erick Fedde threw 75 pitches to 24 batters in 6 innings.
Sam Coonrod RHP- 1 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 3 BB, 2 K's. ERA= 2.45. Coonrod got squeezed badly by the ump and ultimately may have learned a lesson in trusting his electric 97 MPH FB, but the Giants are in no position for learning as they go if they wish to remain competitive in the pennant race.
Sam Selman LHP- 1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 2 K's. ERA= 6.75. Another learning experience. This time it was "get the breaking ball down" as Kruk and Kuip kept imploring. Again, not the type of learning you want in the heat of a pennant race, if the Giants consider themselves in the pennant race. Then again, maybe this was a perfect game for the pitchers to hone their craft since the offense wasn't going to score if the game went 18 innings!
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The Loss left the Giants tied with the D'Backs, 3.5 games behind the Phillies and Nationals for the second Wild Card spot.
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Conner Menez gets his second MLB Start tomorrow night against Anibal Sanchez who has been pitching well of late.
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Oh, and anybody out there still think Farhan's deadline deals weren't a net sell?
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Consensus is Farhan wanted more for the big guns than he was offered.
ReplyDeleteHe added a bat now, a couple for later, gave up some pen, but the face plant of the O exceeds that of the relief pitchers.
Oh, and Bummy and Shark haven't exactly been overwhelming this week!
Will August bring the Fall?
ReplyDeleteLast year, the Giants were sort of "in it" at .500 on September 1st!
Giants have fallen behind the Mets (!), tied again with AZ below .500, and and as close to the Rockies in 12th place as to the Wild Card.
Farhan was caught by the schedule: he couldn't "give away" departing assets for marginal return because of sentiment brought by the illusory July surge, and he couldn't add "rentals" at the expense of the future.
He probably did the "right" thing by attempting a "straddle" but that never ever works.
Schulman says this week won't determine the outcome because all the NL teams after the Dodgers are deeply flawed, but this week was the opportunity to make up on the other "bad" teams.
The weakened 'pen joins the weak offense and weak starting pitching to bring back last years collapse before we want it.
Z made a mistake by caving in to the emotions of the Fans, he should have sold Bum and Smith, these two will not change the outcome of THIS season.
ReplyDeleteIf Z had gotten anything resembling decent value for Smith or MadBum he would have pulled the trigger. If he had traded them for trash just to make a trade, the fanbase would have revolted! Again, Farhan had an impossible task at the deadline so any criticism of his moves is petty. Dyson is on the IL and Melancon and Pom were god awful for so long that selling high was the only intelligent move to make. Fans are coming to the stadium and spending money and we may have 2 key pieces to our future in Dubon and JD so where is the wait and see how things pan out perspective that I normally read about here?!? One game is one game and whether they had lost 1-0 or 4-0 there is no difference. The Giants are NOT losing games right now because of the trades they made so to suggest otherwise is ignorant.
DeleteSo sad, say it ain't so, Joe...
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