Game Thread: 4/7/18 Dodgers @ Giants

[SFGRTB]

I'm starting to turn into Stokes

 

[msgkings322]

For fuck's sake, 6 walks?

 

[SFGRTB]

And they do actually manage a hit, the runners don’t score (or even advance).

I think it is essentially a coincidental stat. Until it isn’t anymore. And at this point, it is a thing with this team.

Remember, during the first half of ‘16, this team was killing the ball with RISP. And then the all star game happened and the team broke.

I can’t wait to find out what happened to cause that. SOMETHING had to have happened. It wasn’t just a fluke.

Someone seriously fucked up

 

[Stokes1931]

Hitting with runners in scoring position is a fluke......


until it's been this way for the Giants for like 3 years. What in the world

6-50 to begin the 2018 season

 

[Stokes1931]

I'm starting to turn into Stokes

You just wish.

 

[calsnowskier]

Watson LOOKS like Lopez, but he is performing kinda like Affeldt.

 

[Stokes1931]

And they do actually manage a hit, the runners don’t score (or even advance).

I think it is essentially a coincidental stat. Until it isn’t anymore. And at this point, it is a thing with this team.

Remember, during the first half of ‘16, this team was killing the ball with RISP. And then the all star game happened and the team broke.

I can’t wait to find out what happened to cause that. SOMETHING had to have happened. It wasn’t just a fluke.

2016 pre-ASB- .261 averaging 4.7 runs per game (allowed 3.90)
2016 post-ASB- .236 averaging 4.0 runs per game (allowed 3.89)

2017 pre-ASB- .263 averaging 3.933 runs per game (allowed 5.03)
2017 post-ASB- .266 averaging 3.944 runs per game (allowed 4.47)

 

[calsnowskier]

2016 pre-ASB- .261 averaging 4.7 runs per game (allowed 3.90)
2016 post-ASB- .236 averaging 4.0 runs per game (allowed 3.89)

2017 pre-ASB- .263 averaging 3.933 runs per game (allowed 5.03)
2017 post-ASB- .266 averaging 3.944 runs per game (allowed 4.47)

So RISP hitting is not a problem on this team.

Gotcha...

 

[SFGRTB]

Jesus, the Cardinals hit .330 with runners in scoring position in 2013. That has to be a record

 

[Stokes1931]

So RISP hitting is not a problem on this team.

Gotcha...

It has been. For long stretches, they were hitting in the 100's with RISP. Additionally, their RISP hits were not producing runs. Man on 2nd, guy hits a single to the OF, and the runner stops at 3rd, that sort of thing. Lack of power has something to do with this.

As you can see, last year the pitching was the downfall, and the scoring was worse than the 2016 post-ASB

 

[Stokes1931]

I am tempted to track how the minors are doing in this regard, but so far, it is depressing. Maybe the situational hitting is over-rated, and if/when it improves, we/I will move onto something else to kvetch about.

 

[calsnowskier]

It has been. For long stretches, they were hitting in the 100's with RISP. Additionally, their RISP hits were not producing runs. Man on 2nd, guy hits a single to the OF, and the runner stops at 3rd, that sort of thing. Lack of power has something to do with this.

As you can see, last year the pitching was the downfall, and the scoring was worse than the 2016 post-ASB

The scoring game was essentially the same as post ASB 2016. .05 rpg is hardly “worse”.

The pitching, yes. A lot of that had to do Bum, the bully and the juiced ball. And the fact that the Giants are/were built for the ground game when the physics of the game all of the sudden changed on everyone.

 

[calsnowskier]

Interference? He was inside the basepath.

 

[SFGRTB]

I am tempted to track how the minors are doing in this regard, but so far, it is depressing. Maybe the situational hitting is over-rated, and if/when it improves, we/I will move onto something else to kvetch about.

Don't do that to yourself.

They aren't teaching guys to hit with RISP in the minors, they're teaching guys to hit the ball hard.

I do think situational hitting is overrated because it's not really a skill IMO. Hitting the ball well is a skill.

It's one of those things that is nice when it's working well, and certainly is helpful, but tough (for me) to bang a guy for not doing it.

Now concerning the Giants, this is some mystical force or something that's hindering them.

 

[calsnowskier]

I am ok with a walk here, but come on...

3 straight easy-take balls.

Cmon, Strick...

 

[SFGRTB]

What.... in.... the..... world..... did... Bellinger.... do.... that..... for

 

[calsnowskier]

Why Sandoval here instead of Blanco?

 

[Hangman]

Time for a Panda walk of HR!!!

 

[calsnowskier]

What.... in.... the..... world..... did... Bellinger.... do.... that..... for

It looked like a splinter hit posey, and Berlinger had no idea. It looked like the bat switch was instigated by Marquez.

 

[SFGRTB]

Why Sandoval here instead of Blanco?

Take a shot with Pablo. If he doesn't get on, still have the top of your lineup due up