Game Wrap 9/14/2019: Marlins 4 Giants 2

Madison Bumgarner battled the home plate ump and poor run support and came away with a QS and No Decision in another uninspiring loss.  Key Lines:

Brandon Crawford SS- 2 for 3, BB.  BA= .230.  Crawford is 4 for 9 with 2 BB's over his last 3 games.  He started the Giants only scoring rally in the 7'th with a single.

Mauricio Dubon 2B- 3 for 4, 2B.  BA= .288.  Dubon had been in a mini-slump going 0 for 9 in his previous 3 games.  His double set up the Giants only scoring of the night in the 7'th.

Donovan Solano 2B- 1 for 1, 3B.  BA= .333.  Solano tripled in Crawford and Dubon in the 7'th to pick up Bumgarner who had fallen behind in the top of the inning.  The triple put Solano at 3B with just 1 out.  Of course, he was left standing there which ended the Giants scoring for the night.

Madison Bumgarner LHP- 7 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 0 BB, 3 K's. ERA= 3.73.  Bummy took a 2-hit shutout into the 7'th inning only to fall behind on a gargantuan 2-run blast by Jorge Alfaro.  His battle with the home plate ump was actually a more interesting story line than the game itself.  It started with with a called ball early in the game that was a fairly egregious mistake.  Bummy kept staring and chirping from the mound which caused the ump to step in front of the plate gesturing and Buster to start walking out between them.  Bummy turned his back just in time.  In two later AB's, Bummy took obvious exception to borderline calls and appeared to be this close to getting tossed.  In the end, he stayed in for a full 7 innings.  I thought Bumgarner had a legitimate beef on the first disputed call, but the ump was probably right on the second two and Bum kept the theatrics going too long which he has been known to do.

Shaun Anderson RHP- 0.1 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 0 BB, 0 K.  ERA= 5.26.  Not sure why Boch brought in Anderson in the 8'th the day after he got a Save and in a tie game.  If the idea was to see if Anderson could go back-to-back games, well, it didn't go well as he had neither the velocity or command he displayed the night before.

Kruk and Kuip- Kuip didn't have a good game as he made a couple of pretty glaring mistakes.  I'm forgetting the first one myself, but on the second one, he appeared to mentally put the Giants ahead after Solano's triple and exclaimed that Bumgarner could only win the game at that point.  Kruk had to point out that a No Decision was still in play, which it would have been even if the Giants had taken the lead.  They did give me a LOL moment after YtY got hit on the toe and hit the deck in obvious pain.  As Yaz was walking it off, Kuip said "if I see Mike after the game, I'll tell him that 40 years from now, he'll still feel that."  Kruk:  "Well yeah, the whole time he was on the ground, you were rubbing your foot!"  Maybe that wasn't as funny as it seemed at the time, but just the way he said it had me doubled over.

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Johnny Cueto tries to close out the homestand with a W this afternoon facing RHP Elieser Hernandez.

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Sluice Box Notes:  IF Corban Joseph was released and OF Mike Gerber and IF Cristhian Adames were called up.  IF Abiatal Avelino is apparently still in the doghouse from his baserunning error and did not get called up.