Game Thread: 8/8 Giants vs. Cubs

[LHG]

Okay, here goes my first attempt at starting a game thread:

Today's lineup:
1 - Pagan cf
2 - Aoki lf
3 - Duffy 3b
4 - Posey c
5 - Pence rf
6 - Belt 1b
7 - Crawford ss
8 - Adrianza 2b
9 - Cain p

No Giant has faced Hendricks. Coglan (.375 with 8 ABs) and Denorfia (.385 with 13 ABs) with ownage on Cain.
Here's to Cain going 7 solid and the Giants taking the win, 3-2.

 

[LHG]

Only 4 of the starting 8 for the Cubs have faced Cain. Rizzo and Montero (combined 8 for 57 with 1 home run) have struggled mightily against him.

 

[LHG]

Not a good top of the 1st. Gotta capitalize on those errors boys.

 

[LHG]

Not a crisp bottom of 1st by any means. Cain on pace to throw 5 innings. Hendricks on pace to go a full 9 innings.

 

[tzill]

Shocking. I tune in and we're losing.

 

[msgkings322]

Shocking. I tune in and we're losing.

Shocking. The Giants give up a run in the first and you're bitching.

 

[tzill]

A Beltbomb. So there's that.

 

[tzill]

Cain on pace to go 6. 62% chance of winning.

 

[LHG]

A Beltbomb. So there's that.

Love it when he gets hot. Wish he could stay hot more often.

 

[LHG]

Cain on pace to go 6. 62% chance of winning.

Better than what he was projecting after that mediocre first inning.

 

[LHG]

I know that this is becoming a broken record, but Bochy, can't you try Blanco at least as a platoon with Pagan?

And this seems so weird considering I wasn't a big fan of Blanco before this year.

 

[tzill]

Pagan now 6 for his last 37

 

[msgkings322]

I know that this is becoming a broken record, but Bochy, can't you try Blanco at least as a platoon with Pagan?

And this seems so weird considering I wasn't a big fan of Blanco before this year.

Yeah, we all see it so they do too, I really wonder why they don't make a change. Blanco wasn't this good until this year so that's why you weren't a fan. Is it real or a mirage?

 

[LHG]

Well that stinks.

 

[msgkings322]

It's gonna test our fandom watching this month.

 

[LHG]

How was that ball 3?

 

[tzill]

Just outfuckingstanding. Another mound shit.

 

[msgkings322]

Is Cain even a good enough #5?

 

[LHG]

It's gonna test our fandom watching this month.

I had hoped Cain was settling in. Yeah, not so much. No command and quite hittable so far.

 

[msgkings322]

Just outfuckingstanding. Another mound shit.

This is not an easy year for you, the Giants' pitching isn't where it's been the last few years.