Thursday highlight from the Giants’ farm: Michael Kickham allowed just 1 ER in 7.0 IP. Also notable, Ryan Cavan homered and singled. AAA: Fresno defeated Salt Lake 8-5 Fresno: 2B Charlie Culberson: 2 for 3, 3B, BBFresno: LF Chir Dominguez: 3 for 4, 2 2B, SO, SB Fresno: SP Eric Hacker: 6.0 IP, 7 H, [...]
BOX SCORE Your browser does not support iframes. Sure, we could focus on the negative: Barry Zito’s ever-climbing ERA, failing to sweep the Astros, the Giants’ post-perfect game hangover. But we’re MoreSplashHits. So when there are more Splash Hits, we celebrate it. Especially when it comes from Brandon Belt. On Thursday, Belt hit … the [...]
Last night’s theme: It had to be Matt Cain. If there were a perfect game in San Francisco Giants history, Matt Cain had to pitch it. It’s why the buzz is lingering, even more than you’d expect. It was Matt Cain. It had to be. And on that theme, it had to be Barry Zito [...]
Matt Cain And Perfection | FanGraphs Baseball Wendy Thurm on Matt Cain’s perfect game. El Lefty Malo – Covering Los Gigantes since 2003. “Retiring 27 Houston Astros in a row on a cool night in a friendly yard doesn’t prove anything, except that a guy with a hammer for an arm and a deep, cool [...]
Current Series Giants lead the series 2-0 Tue 06/12 WP: Madison Bumgarner (8 – 4) SV: Santiago Casilla LP: Bud Norris (5 – 4) 6 – 3 win Wed 06/13 WP: Matt Cain (8 – 2) LP: J.A. Happ (4 – 7) Perfection Houston Astros The Crawfish Boxes @ San Francisco Giants McCovey Chronicles Thursday, [...]
Deciding this is a tradition around these parts. In 2009, I listed 50 awesome things about Jonathan Sanchez’s no-hitter, and I’m glad I did. It’s a good way to catalog the minutia of the game that you’ll forget over time. So allow me to present 50 awesome things about the Matt Cain perfect game. I’m [...]
Matt Cain threw a perfect game tonight. I watched the game on television from start to finish and after it was all over, I had trouble collecting my thoughts. I was bombarded with all sorts of emotions — excitement, bliss, relief, disbelief…This was an event of such rarity and significance. As the game progressed, the [...]
BOX SCORE Your browser does not support iframes. On Tuesday, Madison Bumgarner became the third pitcher in Giants history (since 1900) to hit a home run and strikeout 12-or-more in the same game, joining Juan Marichal and Mike Krukow. Top that, Matt Cain. OK, fine. Cain became the 22nd pitcher in MLB history and the [...]
Matt Cain. There are two ways to talk about Matt Cain: the macro and micro. Big picture and small picture. The micro is on a game-to-game basis. Boy, oh boy, Matt Cain sure is good. He looked awesome in that game, and the change-up was a-changin’. Breaking down specific at-bats. Reminding ourselves how lucky we [...]
Wednesday highlights from the Giants’ farm: Chris Heston, Justin Schumer and Kyle Crick each allowed just 1 R in their starts, and Ryan Cavan homered while reaching base three times. AAA: Fresno lost to Sacramento 6-1 Fresno: 1B Brett Pill: 2 for 4, 2BFresno: 2B Charlie Culberson: 1 for 3, BB, SOSacramento: LF Anthony Recker: [...]
