Last night during the game, Jon Miller and Duane Kuiper were talking about Clay Hensley‘s season. Specifically, they were talking about the fact that Hensley to this point has been better against left-handed hitters than right-handed hitters. Looking over Hensley’s career, he actually has been slightly better against southpaws than righties. Which means that in the [...]
Current Series Giants lead the series 1-0 Tue 06/12 WP: Madison Bumgarner (8 – 4) SV: Santiago Casilla LP: Bud Norris (5 – 4) 6 – 3 win Houston Astros The Crawfish Boxes @ San Francisco Giants McCovey Chronicles Wednesday, Jun 13, 2012, 7:15 PM PDT AT&T Park J.A. Happ vs Matt Cain Clear. Winds [...]
Over on Baseball Nation, I wrote something about the stupid baseball-related things you can buy on MLB.com. The feature tanked. So when something tanks like that, I like to revisit the subject right away out of spite. It’s like hanging a curve, and then going right back to the curve for the very next pitch. [...]
Not exactly breaking news, but worth a mention. The Giants signed their first-round draft pick, Chris Stratton, for the recommended slot amount of $1.85 million. Baseball America offered a little scouting report after the news: Stratton broke out as a prospect with a 17-strikeout game against Louisiana State in mid-March and kept rising up draft [...]
In the past couple years, I’ve written thousands upon thousands of words in appreciation and admiration of the accomplishments of Madison Bumgarner. He’s good. Unfortunately, I’ve just about run out of ways to say that. I suppose I could dig through a thesaurus and pick out every word I haven’t yet exhausted. Bumgarner’s having a [...]
Tuesday highlights from the Giants’ farm: Ehire Adrianza homered and singled, Nick Noonan had five hits, and both Andy Reichard and Clayton Blackburn allowed just 1 ER in 6.0 IP. AAA: Fresno defeated Sacramento 8-7 (13 innings) Fresno: CF Justin Christian: 3 for 6, 2B, BB, SO, SBFresno: SS Nick Noonan: 5 for 7, 2 [...]
BOX SCORE Your browser does not support iframes. The Giants’ 16-game homeless streak at home ended Tuesday with the most unlikely of sluggers. Madison Bumgarner belted his first career big-league home run in the third inning to snap the string. It was his first home run since going deep on April 25, 2010 while playing [...]
Our progeny shall sing songs of his deeds. He has inside him blood of kings. He is Madison Bumgarner. If you sent the video of this game back in time to yourself sometime last season, your past self would undoubtedly say (after marveling at time travel technology), “Phew. Good. He is just going to keep [...]
Lineup, via CSN Bay Area: 1. Gregor Blanco (L) CF 2. Ryan Theriot (R) 2B 3. Melky Cabrera (S) LF 4. Buster Posey (R) C 5. Pablo Sandoval (S) 3B 6. Nate Schierholtz (L) RF 7. Brandon Belt (L) 1B 8. Brandon Crawford (L) SS 9. Madison Bumgarner (R) P Current Series 3 game series [...]
I truly regret that there weren’t blogs or message boards back over most of the last century. How much inane baseball nonsense was lost? How much pointless yabbering about pointless lineup moves vanished into the ether the second after it was uttered? So sad. I want to know what we would have said about the [...]
