The Giants offense took it to Dodgers SP Julio Urias LHP and kept adding on agains their bullpen to pick up their own bullpen's less than stellar effort. Game Notes:
Wilmer Flores 1B returned from the IL and went 3 for 3. He should boost the offense considerably, especially against LHP's.
YtY RF had 2 doubles and a walk. He has an OPS of .800 despite a .224 BA.
Evan Longoria 3B seems be back in a groove with a .360 BA and 3 HR's over his last 7 games. He had HR and a single today.
Donovan Solano 2B is also back to being "Donnie Barrels" with 2 hits including his second HR of the series.
Steven Duggar PH/LF/CF entered the game as for Austin Slater LF when Urias departed. He came up with 2 outs/bases loaded facing a lefty and doubled into the RF corner to drive in 2 insurance runs.
Logan Webb RHP was pulled after 5 innings but not because of poor pitching. FZ and Kap continue to play the long game and Webb was coming off the IL. Stupid Fox announcers were critical of Kap for pulling him after just 60 pitches and did not mention the IL part, that I can recall. Webb was sensational for those 5 innings getting K's on a deadly tight hard-breaking slider and a diving, facing changeup. Both pitches were tough to hitters to see and totally unhittable. Let's just keep our fingers crossed that Webb's shoulder issue does not come back because we are seeing something special developing.
Matt Wisler RHP restored some order in the bullpen with 4 K's in 1.1 IP. His slider looked tight and nasty today.
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The Win puts the Giants in sole possession of second place in the NL West 1.5 games behind the Powerful Padres and 1 games ahead of the Dodgers.
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The Giants send their ace, Kevin Gausman RHP to try for the series win against Clayton Kershaw LHP tomorrow afternoon.
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Jason Vosler IF and Nick Tropeano RHP get sent down to make way for Flores and Webb to return from the IL.
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Down on the Farm:
AAA:
Sam Long LHP- 3.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 9 K's. ERA= 0.00.
Wow! I would say Sam Long had a successful AAA debut, to say the least!
AA:
Heliot Ramos CF- 3 for 7. BA= .309.
Caleb Kilian RHP- 4 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 3 K's, GO/AO= 7/1. ERA= 2.25.
Ronnie Williams RHP- 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 4 K's. ERA= 0.61.
Sean Hjelle RHP- 5 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 3 K's, GO/AO= 13/0. ERA= 4.03.
Doubleheader for Richmond Flying Squirrels.
High A:
Will Wilson SS- 1 for 4, HR(5). BA= .278.
Javeyon Williams CF- 1 for 3, HR(1). BA= .152.
Low A:
Marco Luciano SS- 2 for 4, HR(5). BA= .284.
Four consecutive multi-hit games for Luciano with 2 HR's and 3 2B out of 9 hits in that span.
Some days I come just for the Luciano updates, glad to see him taking off
ReplyDeleteOther than an elimination game, rarely does one game mean anything.
ReplyDeleteToday's game with the Dodgers means little if the Giants lose — sad, of course, missing an opportunity to in-your-face LA at home — but still tied for 2nd and ending a 4-2 mini road trip in hostile territory.
OTOH, winning makes a statement: We Are Real, take notice, world, you're seeing the story of 2021.
The rest of the story is to stay relatively healthy with an "older" roster, keep Posey fresh, massaging the lineup daily, juggling FIVE LHB OFers plus 3 more on the IF when LaStella and Belt are back. The Giants could win an elimination game then anything could happen.
Eric Karras (color guy) is the super-opinionated (in very stupid and unsupported ways) guy. Straight up said the Giants have zero depth and could not withstand injuries. Giants are banged up all over the place. Especially 1B & 2B. And have a better record than the Bums.
ReplyDeleteOf course the Giants aren't the Dodgers with elite level stars (Rebirth of Buster, Craw and Longoria aside), the Giants ARE deep.
LaMonte Wade Jr. is our 5th or 6th-string 1B.
Perhaps another reason FZ didn't go hard after Marcell Ozuna as many wanted (and a good thing):
ReplyDeletehttps://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/05/marcell-ozuna-arrested-on-assault-battery-charges.ht
I was pondering whether it is a coincidence that when the Giants face a younger pitcher who manages to control them the first time, they smack him around pretty well the next time they face him. This was clearly the situation with Urias – his line the first time (May 23) was 6 innings – 3 hits – 2 earned runs – no walks – 10 strikeouts. The next time they see Urias, a different result – 5 innings – 11 hits – 6 earned runs – 2 walks – 5 strikeouts.
ReplyDeleteThey had a similar result against Austin Gomber with the Rockies. The first time (April 9) they faced Gomber – 6 1/3 innings – 1 hit – 2 earned runs – 4 walks – 5 strikeouts. The next time they faced him (April 26), a different result – 1 2/3 innings – 7 hits – 9 earned runs – 4 walks – 3 strikeouts.
Were these pitchers just off their game the second time around or did the coaches and batters analyze what took place the first time and make the necessary adjustments?
It sure is nice to beat up on the Dodgers - life is better. :) APGiantsfan
Nope, don't think it's coincidence at all. I bet they feet reams of data from the first encounter into the Churnatron Megacomputer and have an attack plan all ready for that second shot.
Delete....er FEED reams of data....
DeleteUrias was off, it happens, in the past he got a lot of LA run support
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