The Giants brought their hitting shoes and picked up Logan Webb and the defense in what turned out to be a runaway Giants win with some help from Secret Agent Disco. Key Lines:
Heliot Ramos LF- 1 for 5, HR(17), R, 2 RBI. BA= .266. The Giants hit 5 home runs on the night. Ramos shot capped a 5-spot in the 6'th inning that put the game away. It was just his 3'rd HR of the second half.
Dominic Smith 1B- 1 for 4, HR(5), R, 2 RBI. BA= .291. Smith's 2-run bomb tied the score in the third inning. Reminder Smith was signed after he was released by his minor league club. He is a free agent at the end of the season. It will be interesting to see where he signs and for how much. Quite a turnaround of fortunes.
Matt Chapman 3B- 2 for 4, HR(21), 2 R, RBI. BA= .241. Chapman's solo HR came in the 7'th off Secret Agent Disco, one of 3 Anthony DeSclafani RHP gave up in the game.
Jung Hoo Lee CF- 3 for 4, HR(8), 2 R, 2 RBI. BA= .271. Lee made up for his terrible AB in yesterday's game by driving in the Giants first two runs in the second inning to answer the 3 run, error-aided rally by the D'Backs in the top of the inning. Lee had an interesting AB which contributed to the 5-run rally in the 6'th inning. With runners on first and second with no outs, Lee bunted for a base-hit. I missed seeing it on TV but I guess the primary goal was to advance the runners and if he reached base it was a bonus? That's one way to make sure you don't strike out looking(sorry I couldn't help it). Christian Koss made it pay off with a double followed by Ramos' HR.
Christian Koss 2B- 2 for 4, 2B, R, 2 RBI. BA= .258. Koss made an error in the second inning which led to 3 unearned runs on Jake McCarthy's bases loaded triple but Koss' double in the 6'th drove in the go-ahead runs. He then scored on Ramos' HR.
Patrick Bailey C- 1 for 3, HR(4), SF, R, 2 RBI. BA= .217. Bailey is batting .333 over his last 7 games, .250 over his last 15 and .237 over his last 30.
Logan Webb RHP- 6 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 7 K's, 7/2 GO/AO. ERA= 3.12. Webb threw 110 pitches through 6 innings but came away with a Quality Start and the W(14-9).
The Mets lost to the Phillies 1-0( ouch!) and the Reds lost so the Giants are the first runner-up in the Wild-Card standings trailing the Mets by 3 games.
Robbie Ray LHP tries to keep the winning going tomorrow evening facing Zac Gallen RHP who comes in with a 4.77 ERA.
My friend, I think prompted by our discussion about who the Giants Closer of the Future might be, texted a question asking who I think is the Giants best Closer of all time. Off the top of my head I replied for one season, Brian Wilson, in 2010 because not only did he have a great regular season he carried it through the postseason in the Giants first WS championship year in the SF era. I also mentioned Robb Nen and Rod Beck. Greg Minton saves a lot of games in the 1980's and Gary Lavelle and Randy Moffitt were co-closers in the 1970's. The first Giants Closer I remember was Frank Linzy, the bespectacled one, in the 1960's. That was before Closer's were a thing. There were a lot more complete games then so fewer Save Opportunities and Closers were expected to go more than 1 inning to close out games.
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