05/16 GDT: Tards @ Giants

[Stokes1931]

#fail

Not one strike thrown to Pill or Nate, and yet Garcia K's them both.

0 for 5 with RISP (making it 2 for the last 22 with RISP)

 

[gp956]

This is obviously a strategy implemented by the org, I just do not get it.

I think it was last week, and Fitzgerald was getting irate at callers who were critical of this approach. He made the point that there ante times that you just need to see pitch, hit pitch, and if you do not swing at the first pitch, you may be letting the best pitch of the AB go by.

This is a valid point... In a normal situation. However, he idiotically failed to acknowledge that his "occasional" rule was being implemented EVERY FUCKING AB by this team.

This hack-attack mentality is really pissing me off.

Try this on: the Giants seem to be afraid to K, and therefore fear two strike counts, both of which are a product of the Giants being geared towards making "productive outs". Consequently, hacking early in the AB is the path of least resistance for meeting the organizational hitting philosophy.

 

[gp956]

#fail

Not one strike thrown to Pill or Nate, and yet Garcia K's them both.

0 for 5 with RISP (making it 2 for the last 22 with RISP)

Garcia must be "on" tonight.

 

[Stokes1931]

Garcia must be "on" tonight.

He is throwing well, to be sure. But Giant hitters are helping him more than they need to.

I know this is early in the season, and there have been some injuries. But this feels like last August with the hitters.

 

[Stokes1931]

On a more positive note, MadBum is dealing. (No jinx, CC!)

Now back to your regularly scheduled hitting suckitude.

 

[gp956]

He is throwing well, to be sure. But Giant hitters are helping him more than they need to.

I know this is early in the season, and there have been some injuries. But this feels like last August with the hitters.

Yeah.....I was joking. Kruk's default comment when the Giants are being shutdown is "[insert pitcher name] is on tonight".

 

[Stokes1931]

Yeah.....I was joking. Kruk's default comment when the Giants are being shutdown is "[insert pitcher name] is on tonight".

Sorry, I just can't hear humor when the Giants are hitting like this. Party time!

 

[calsnowskier]

I am not watching, but I am following on MLB. Did those pitches to burr look as bad as MLB made them look?

That is cruel injustice. Burr goes up there and does what he is supposed to do (let balls go by) and the ump screws him over for it.

 

[Stokes1931]

One would think that after twice through the lineup, the Giant hitters would catch on to the slider/curve in the dirt, and lay off.

Nice quick inning by MadBum.

Go get 'em, boys. Have fun storming the castle!

 

[Stokes1931]

I am not watching, but I am following on MLB. Did those pitches to burr look as bad as MLB made them look?

That is cruel injustice. Burr goes up there and does what he is supposed to do (let balls go by) and the ump screws him over for it.

Maybe if the Giants showed ANY awareness of what the strike zone actually was, we might get more sympathetic calls. As it is, anything the pitcher throws is an automatic strike. :tape2:

 

[gp956]

cattle-list!

 

[gp956]

I am not watching, but I am following on MLB. Did those pitches to burr look as bad as MLB made them look?

That is cruel injustice. Burr goes up there and does what he is supposed to do (let balls go by) and the ump screws him over for it.

I wasn't really paying much attention at that moment. Wasn't Garcia throwing a bunch of sweeping breaking balls?

 

[Stokes1931]

What!?!?!?

A Sac bunt?

What happened to the FPOM popup?

 

[Stokes1931]

I was really paying much attention at that moment. Wasn't Garcia throwing a bunch of sweeping breaking balls?

Yeah. The Pedro Cerrano pitch.

 

[gp956]

Ground Attack!

 

[gp956]

Posey! FPSM!

 

[Stokes1931]

Posey drives one in!

FPRBI

 

[Stokes1931]

Wanna see Pill go deep here.

 

[gp956]

How bad was Melky's injury? Looks like Blanco is ok. Keischnick is the next man up, I think.

 

[gp956]

Wanna see Pill go deep here.