Let the Sleeping Dogs Die ! ! !
The Brew Crew so far is obliterating the Dodgers pitching while their pitching has shut down the Dodger attack. Not really watching, but hey seeing that 6-2 score yesterday in the top of the 9th was very nifty. Patrick Bailey is apparently putting his stamp on the Guardicles team as he cranks up the power. Yes, it’l disappear like a mirage soon, but hey, ride it while it lasts.
Brewers and Guardicles would be a cool series.
Go Milwaukee! Fuck the Dodgers.
zzzzzzzzzzz
What does Devers have in his mouth? It looks like a chunk of rubber.
ABS
Walk this guy ffs
Fucking announcer doesn’t get that the guy on 1st doesn’t mean anything.
And there you go.
And Ballgame for another pathetic loss!
Webbie saved his shitty inning for the 7th.
Nice to see some of FDTV people back doing interviews with trainers as Del Mar opens.
Might be Ray’s last start today. Giants head to KC next where it will be mid 90s and way different weather than left coast of SF and Seattle.
Ray won’t cost any team his 25M deal it will be prorated the remaining of the season at like 8M so a trade to a contender should be easy for a mid prospect..
I’m still hanging on for an extension for Arreaz who’s willing to listen, he’s just so fun to watch and his play this year has been outstanding!And clowns like Kamakil,and Law who ripped the idea that it couldn’t play 2nd base can eat Crow now!!
Sad to hear of the passing of Ron Hunt at 85 he’s was a human HBP machine getting plunked 243 times!!He was said to”Some player donate their bodies to science,I donate mine to baseball!’
Hunt was a Giant when I first became a fan. RIP
Great uni cool player.
Took a look at his first year with Giants in 1968. They won 90 and out of money in 2nd place. Mac had monster year with .963 OPS, 36 HRs 105 rbis and walked more times than he struck out (72-71).
Year of the pitcher, right? Giants had 77 complete games, 30 by Marichal.
First Webb, now Ray with meltdown inning to lose lead he had.
2 runs in’t a meltdown but the d didn’t do him any favors.
Anod of corse Mahler with the bomberooski
De ja vu all over again. Mahler is just awful.
Good to see the Giants getting the Mariners back on track.
gustav’s spinning in his grave
the AS break gave Hoser too much rest. He’s just a bit too strong now. That’s the explication from Estes.
Effluvium persists
Chris Speier’s nephew.
aaaaaaaand we suck
4th inning took forever. Schmitt started it with error, but then Ray gave up 3 hits and a BB and got out of it with bases loaded. 27 pitches, and by then he was at 80. 2 more singles to open 5th and TV got him out of there. Just wasn’t sharp with command and couldn’t put guys away.
Ron Hunt was the second autograph I ever got…
My first glove as a 6 year old was Ron Hunt “autographed”.
You sure you don’t mean Ken Hunt?
Well, now that you mention it, it might’ve been… but really thought it was Ron Hunt. Ken Hunt was a pitcher and only played a year or two, yes? I think the Ron Hunt glove came out after his rookie year, early ’60s, the timing would’ve been right… But really, at this point, some childhood memories increasingly seem to be losing their credibility….
As if our lives weren’t complicated enough, there were 2 Ken Hunts…
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/huntke01.shtml
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/huntke02.shtml
Well, would you look at that. Ok, I guess it was probably a Ken Hunt the outfielder glove…
This might not be a thing at all, and I don’t know how to verify it, but observationally, it just seems that so many of the Giants homers are solo shots. I mean, the lead MLB in grand salami’s, right?, but seems most other HRs only net the team 1 run, when they sure could use more…
You’re right, this year they’ve hit fewer HRs than the MLB average with runners on, 35 to 43 percent of the total (SF has hit 38 of their 110 with men on). If they’d had average luck, it’d mean another 9 of their 110 HRs would have come with runners on. Two thirds of all multi RBI HRs are two run bombs. The net extra runs scored for SF would be about 10. If they’d been really lucky until now and hit a much higher percentage than avg., you can double those totals.
Of course a better team OBP might help, too. They’ve way underperformed their OPS in terms of runs scored. The OBP is below average, but the slugging is well above, which should compensate. Maybe the ridiculous lack of walks, relatively few HRs, and overabundance of doubles have weirdly combined to break the model.