Tim works quick and the Giants swinging from the heels…
So how do you score 10 runs in 2:06?
The Giants aren't a "free swinging" club…..they just employ a quick strike offense!!!
The Giants are running the 2 minute offense all game long and anyone who knows football knows that with 2 minutes left the offense almost always seems to click…..
So keep hacking at slop and as long as you keep putting up big numbers, we can just call it the baseball version of the Run and Shoot
And it’s a Fangraphs night again. As you can see the good folks at fangraphs were able to incorporate Tim's dominance into their calculations…..(ok, not a real graph…..)
GAMEBALL and JOKE
06/29 GIANTS at CARDINALS
GAMEBALL
TIM
Holy shit, this kid is good. Probably best said by LaRussa….."Well he's got a 2 ERA, I mean…(insert aw shucks chuckle)…..when he pitches I don't know a lot of guys (that) are gonna be excited…..It's not his talent that is most impressive, its that he pitches with it. He doesn't just fire it up there……Got that straight Mr La Russa….and he is OURS……
TIP OF THE CAP :
WINN
Double in 1st inning broke the ice and got the party started
ISHIKAWA
Had the game changing blow with a 3 run shot…..keeps whiffing at an ungodly rate, but as long as he can his some dingers and play some D, we can live with a .250 from that spot……..
RENTERIA
Base clearing double put the game away, and 3rd game in a row with an extra base hit to left……going right into the face of all the data I pulled last week…..which, is a great indicator that this years data may be more random than meaningful……hell, love it when I write someone off and they respond…….
URIBE
He was trying to jerk anything and everything, and stepped in the bucket on 1/2 his swings……of course once it a while that max effort swing makes contact, which was the weirdest swing of the night, didn’t really step in the bucket….but planted his lead foot and then slid it out to open up and crush an inside pitch……and Uribe seems to LOVE that inside pitch….and by inside, I don't mean inside 1/2 of the zone….I mean OFF THE PLATE INSIDE……
MOLINA
As Giants fandom groused about your return to the cleanup spot after Nates 4 hit day….you responded with a 3 hit day of your own…..
NATE
Ho hum….2 hits……you can do better
GIANTS FAN IN BIG MAC LAND
Got Uribe's ball, got on TV, got to see Tim's shutout, and a 10 run outburst….you got more than a season full of fun in one night, you don't have to come back to the park again this year……
JOKER
ANKIEL
Giants No Hitter……a phrase as rare as Giants World Championship…..and since 1 won't happen this year, it might actually be nice to see the other…..and the way Timmy was dealing tonight may have been the night….but Steve Blass disease survivor Ankiel broke it up with a little jam shot flare to right……which makes him fair game here……
So in this era of Juice Awareness…….in the wake of the tearing down the feel good work of McGwire……Rick Ankiel was a feel good story that make us feel good about baseball…..here was a phenom who got crushed by the pressure, and then taken down by injuries ….. only to come back reinvented as a cannon armed, ball crushing centerfielder…….and then, as he was being embraced by the baseball nation, he was outted as a Juicer…..Sure, we get all the same excuses…..rehabbing from injury, blah blah blah……some buy it, some don't…..all I know is that slugging percentage is down to about .400 and OBP is about .300……..and with numbers like that, and Rasmus breathing down your neck, you aren't going to be long for this league…..so was this a story of redemption? or perhaps just another façade of Chemical enhancement…….I hope it’s the former, but fear it’s the latter…….
SMACK OF THE STICK :
PUJOLS
Striking out Pujols might not have been a good idea, as the next two times up he TATOOED the ball…….Bochy? You watching? Walk this MF'er the next two games……period……
MORTENSEN
After Sadowski's game, the bar has been raised for debut's…..and Clayton the Card's newest wunderkind was welcomed to the league with hard hit shots and shaky defense…..
OQUENDO
I see you coaching 3rd…….Yes…..I'm still pissed about 1987…….
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