Game Thread: 4.22 Last Hicks Start? 6:45p

[tzill]

1. H Ramos (R) LF
2. W Adames (R) SS
3. J Lee (L) CF
4. M Chapman (R) 3B
5. W Flores (R) DH
6. L Matos (R) RF
7. D Villar (R) 1B
8. P Bailey (S) C
9. T Fitzgerald (R) 2B

Jordan Hicks
RHP
1-2, 6.04 ERA, 19 SO

Quintana is getting off to a really good start: 2 GS 12.2 IP 8H 6K 3BB 1ER 0.87 ERA

Kind of the anti-Hicks if you will.

 

[tzill]

Brisbee, today:

Since the Giants moved to San Francisco, there have been 34 players who have started more than 15 games in April and finished the month with a batting average under .200. Some of them did it more than once. Johnnie LeMaster did it four times, which isn’t a surprise. Jack Clark also did it four times, which is most definitely a surprise.

This comes up now because three of the Giants’ starting nine are currently under the Mendoza line. LaMonte Wade Jr. is currently having one of the worst Aprils in team history, and the only good news is that there’s an entire week left for him to finish the month strong. Patrick Bailey has provided a couple of big hits, including a two-out RBI single in Monday night’s 5-2 win, but he’s also been struggling mightily. Willy Adames was over .200 for the first time in several weeks after a two-hit game on Sunday, but he went back under against his former team on Monday.

It’s not as if it’s been a teeny-tiny sample for the three sub-Mendoza Giants this month, but there’s still plenty of season left. Lots of others turned everything around, even if lots of others didn’t. Just know that it takes a special situation for a player to keep getting starts while in an extended slump like this. The best news about the Giants’ patience is that they’ve been winning anyway. There isn’t as much pressure on any of the three as there could have been, and they can take solace in knowing that they’re keeping some pretty good company.

 

[msgkings322]

1. H Ramos (R) LF
2. W Adames (R) SS
3. J Lee (L) CF
4. M Chapman (R) 3B
5. W Flores (R) DH
6. L Matos (R) RF
7. D Villar (R) 1B
8. P Bailey (S) C
9. T Fitzgerald (R) 2B

Jordan Hicks
RHP
1-2, 6.04 ERA, 19 SO

Quintana is getting off to a really good start: 2 GS 12.2 IP 8H 6K 3BB 1ER 0.87 ERA

Kind of the anti-Hicks if you will.

Why would this be Hicks’ last start?

 

[calsnowskier]

Why would this be Hicks’ last start?

While I agree that it is too early to kick him from the rotation, there is a lot of talent breathing down his neck for that spot. And he is the most likely to lose his spot of the current 5.

 

[Stokes1931]

While I agree that it is too early to kick him from the rotation, there is a lot of talent breathing down his neck for that spot. And he is the most likely to lose his spot of the current 5.

Getting harder and harder to believe in Hicks the Starter.

 

[Stokes1931]

It was probably BoMel's thinking to stretch Hicks out and save the overworked bullpen, but he was already at 97 pitches to begin the sixth, and then the first two hitters get on, they both score, and now a close 3-1 game has become much less close 5-1. And Trivino is depositing foul smelling stuff on the mound as we type.

 

[calsnowskier]

That sound you just heard was me turning this game off.

 

[Stokes1931]

Yellich with the Salami. 9-1

Could see this one coming.

 

[Stokes1931]

That sound you just heard was me turning this game off.

Me, too, after one final post on the Hoop.

 

[Stokes1931]

Peeking in, Giants trying to make this one interesting.

Nope. Strikeout and a GIDP (their 3rd of the game)

Crap game all around

Except for Flowers 3-3

And Bivens, 2.1 scoreless innings

It was really an odd choice to bring in Trivino with men on base.

Oh well, get 'em tomorrow.

 

[tzill]

Why would this be Hicks’ last start?

Because he's a useless piece of shit?

 

[msgkings322]

Mean reversion is a bitch

 

[msgkings322]

Oh and I am already completely done with the new city connect abominations, 0-2 record and even uglier than the creamsicles

 

[tzill]

Oh and I am already completely done with the new city connect abominations, 0-2 record and even uglier than the creamsicles

This is the way.

The beatings will continue until the garbage uniforms are ditched.

 

[calsnowskier]

This is the way.

The beatings will continue until the garbage uniforms are ditched.

The garbage uniforms will continue until their sales cease….

 

[tzill]

The garbage uniforms will continue until their sales cease….

This makes me, as we say in the Bay, hella sad.