@upright yeah. I keep wondering how patient Melvin is going to be with him. He can get back to being dominant, but to me trying Rodriguez in the ninth might be the way to go for now.
So, the #Giants couldn't manage another big come from behind win and lose game to the #Phillies but they take the series 2-1 and stand at 29-17 before facing the #Yankees (37-19) for 3 games at home starting the day after tomorrow.
So, it's not going to get any easier for the Giants any time soon and whoever put the schedule together for the Giants much really had something against them. LOL! 🤦♂️
So I haven't been paying much attention to the #SFGiants so far, only once in a while noticing that they're not very good. But I looked today and saw they're second in the NL West. 2 Games below .500, but second place? Wooboy, looked at the standings and wow. NL West sucks. Looks like the effin' Dodgers are going to walk through it this year. Again.
Granted, it's early, but still. Definitely not lighting things on fire this year.
@thelinuxcast it’s been delightful as background noise as our little guy has grown (now 8; we go to a couple games a year and probably listen to 80ish games.)
Snell just got pulled as the starter today and was put on IR !!!!! 💩
Walker is going to start in his place. So, it's going to be a bullpen game. Manaea, who use to pitch for the Giants, is starting for the #Mets. The game starts in just a couple of hours.
Nice to see Winn finally getting some (not a lot but just enough) run support to get his 1st "win" of the season by throwing 6 1-run innings, that run was a HR but it was an excellent outing.
Soler still isn't hitting long balls but he did get 2 hits and a walk and scored a run ahead of an Estrada double. He was also reached 3rd on a Chapman double that scored Lee.
The 3rd run was scored w/2 on and no out after Ahmed hit into a DP but those are all the runs that the Giants need to win after Doval (who was more focused) came in to get the save --- 3 up/down w/one K.
The Giants win the series 2-1 and FWIW, according to the announcers, this was the 1st series win for the Giants in Miami since 2016! 🤷♂️
Now let's see how the Giants do vs the $Dbacks starting today.
The Giants lose tonight 4-0 to the Padres but, but for a grand slam HR with 3 on & 2 out in the top of the 1st, it would the score would have been 0-0 at the end of the 9th and would have gone into extra innings. Oh well . . . 🤷♂️