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 [...]
Matt Cain managed to throw yet another quality start last night, as the Giants bested the Houston Astros in San Francisco. Going at least six full innings and allowing three earned runs or less, the effort marked Cain’s 10th quality start of the season and 144th of his career, good for a quality start percentage [...]
NATIONAL LEAGUE San Francisco Giants 10, Houston Astros 0
Most no-hitters or perfect games have that one moment when you just know, yep, it’s happening. I’d guess that those who saw Matt Cain‘s perfecto live last night will point to Gregor Blanco’s catch of Jordan Schafer’s drive in the seventh inning as that moment: The GIF comes via Grant Brisbee at McCovey Chronicles, who…
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 [...]
With his 125-pitch gem against the Astros on Wednesday night, Matt Cain entered the history books, throwing the 20th perfect game since 1900 and 22nd in major league history. Cain struck out 14 in the contest, matching Sandy Koufax’s total on Sept. 9, 1965 for the highest strikeout total in a perfect game. That gave…
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 [...]
In a Insider-only blog post, ESPN’s Keith Law listed some interesting names for the 2013 draft. College players like Austin Wilson and Ryne Stanek headline the crop along with high schoolers Austin Meadows and Clinton Hollon. Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, here are the latest miscellaneous signings from this year’s class… The [...]
It took six outfielders going on the disabled list for Scott Posednik to get the call back to the majors for the Boston Red Sox, but in the 14 games he has been back in the bigs, he has shown that he is far more than a desperation hire, even if that’s how the gig [...]
Phillies general partner David Montgomery told Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports that he’s not thinking about trading away established players since opportunity still exists for his 29-33 club. “Come August or something, maybe we feel differently,” Montgomery acknowledged, noting that the team’s current goal is to re-enter the playoff picture. Here are more rumors and [...]
