Game Thread: 8/30 Turds @ Champs

[tzill]

1. Nori Aoki (L) LF
2. Matt Duffy (R) 3B
3. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
4. Buster Posey (R) C
5. Marlon Byrd (R) RF
6. Kelby Tomlinson (R) 2B
7. Gregor Blanco (L) CF
8. Ehire Adrianza (S) SS
9. Chris Heston (R) P

Gerald back in. Still no Pence, Panik, Pagan, Craw.

Seaweed and Max with ownage on Garcia; Turds 4-16 lifetime v. Moses, Yadi with a bomb.

Turd those turding turbinals....3-2 good guys

 

[calsnowskier]

Crawford expected back tomorrow. Who gets sent down?

EA has no options, but I have to think he is the odd man out. Bringing Craw back on Monday instead of Tuesday, though, will require EA to be DFA'd, which you have to assume they were thinking of doing anyway in order to call someone up on Tuesday. Frandsen?

Edit:

Never mind. Craw never went to the DL. Wow. He has been gone for so long, I just assumed...

 

[calsnowskier]

We draw Garcia, but the dogs draw Arrieta. I like our chances better than the dogs'...

 

[msgkings322]

Pretty important game, not quite like tomorrow but close, can't fall 5 back in loss column....

 

[calsnowskier]

Pretty important game, not quite like tomorrow but close, can't fall 5 back in loss column....

Yup. Today is big.

Not "Must win" but important. If we can pick up a game today, that means we hit the 1.5 out with a series win in LA. If we lose a game, that means we have to sweep the dogs to get to the 1.5 mark.

Let's get off Krukow! We have been on him WAY too long.

 

[tzill]

Yup. Today is big.

Not "Must win" but important. If we can pick up a game today, that means we hit the 1.5 out with a series win in LA. If we lose a game, that means we have to sweep the dogs to get to the 1.5 mark.

Let's get off Krukow! We have been on him WAY too long.

agreed; that doyer comeback yesterday hurt.

However, Arrieta is awesome, so I don't think we lose a game today.

 

[calsnowskier]

 

[SFGRTB]

Why play the infield in, in the 1st inning with a groudnball pitcher?

 

[calsnowskier]

We NEED Arietta tonight.

 

[calsnowskier]

Hey what's this?

Oh yea. A BALL GAME!!!

 

[calsnowskier]

Byrd has been an absolute savior in his time here.

 

[calsnowskier]

That thing took some wicked bounces off the wall, making Hayward (one of the best defensive OFers in the game) look foolish. If he had been able to field that, without it getting past him on the bounce, would he have been able to hold Byrd to a single?

Would Pence have been able to Imelda that cleanly?

That play is exibhit 1 I. Why this is the hardest RF to play in the bigs.

 

[calsnowskier]

All that, and the Giants were only able to squeeze 18 pitches out of Garcia.



Nice catch by Blanco...

 

[calsnowskier]

I took the over on this game (6.5). That's looking like a pretty good bet right now...

 

[calsnowskier]

Pitchers not named Bumgarner (and a couple other exceptions) should not swing at the first pitch. Get the opposing pitcher to work!

 

[calsnowskier]

Lot of fly-outs for Heston today.

Definately going against his trends...

 

[SFGRTB]

This just feels like it's going to be an offensive day.

 

[calsnowskier]

Looks pretty clearly fair to me...

 

[SFGRTB]

There was the nasty Greg Maddux 2-seamer. He hasn't really had control of that yet, but that one was nasty.

 

[calsnowskier]

This just feels like it's going to be an offensive day.

Yup.

This game will not be tz-approved, but it is FAR from over.