Duggar Gives A Clinic

 Steven Duggar OF might not be the first Giants hitter you would think of to teach a clinic on the art of hitting.  He has been on fire since being recalled Saturday, 6 for 14 with 3, that's right 3, triples and a double.  Two of those triples and the double came tonight.  I'm going to highlight the second triple, a bases-loaded shot that had Giants running around the bases like I've never seen before.  BTW, I wonder how many bases-loaded triples have been hit in franchise history?  

Anyway, lets break down that second, bases-loaded triple with some help from Giants announcers Dave Fleming and Shawn Estes.  Duggar was up there with 2 outs and had a 1-2 count.  Robert Stephenson RHP threw an almost perfect 2-strike slider that dived down below the strike zone.  Duggar started to swing but recognized it in time and checked up.  Flem and Estes commented on what a great take it was.  He recognized it as a slider, saw it was low in the zone and correctly judged it would finish low.  What that did was force Stephenson to bring his next slider up because if he threw it in the same location again, Duggar would just spit on it again.  It's just that he brought it up a bit too high and hung it which allowed Duggar to smoke it up the R-CF alley to the deepest part of Coors which started the crazy chase around the bases.  And how exciting is a bases-loaded triple?  I'm going to say even more than a grand slam HR!  

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Speaking of Dave Fleming:  Wow!  He went there!  Dave opined on NBC Sports Bay Area that it's quite obvious the Dodgers and Padres were adversely affected by MLB's foreign substance crackdown to a significantly greater degree than the Giants who "weren't dependent on that stuff."  Good stuff, Dave!  

Oh, and Dave and Shawn Estes had a lot of fun at the Dodgers garish City Connect unis and how they are the worst!  Definitely true.  I've always been a bit jealous of the classic clean white and blue Dodger unis but those all blue atrocities had to be the worse baseball uniforms ever worn outside of Pittsburgh or the Chicago South Side.  And whattheheck does that shade of blue or any shade of blue have to do with LA?  I mean, the Dodgers brought those colors out with them from Brooklyn!  And what does it say about LA as a city that the designers couldn't think of anything else to connect the Dodgers to the city with?