Tuesday, June 29: Travis Lakins celebrates his birthday with a start in Houston

[Gurgi]

1 minute ago, slakattack said:

SF Giant Orange came from Balto. Orioles Orange....Orioles (MiL) manager John McGraw brought the colors to the NY Giants when he switched jobs..in the early 1900's

Well that makes sense now.

[Ruzious]

Seems pretty clear that Leyba can't begin to hit ML curveballs.  

[HowAboutThat]

I’m happy to give Leyba a look, but, I’m done now. The Diamondbacks were right…send him on his way and call up…hmmm…is Bannon injured? Jones? Buehler?

[Can_of_corn]

6 minutes ago, Ruzious said:

Couple of things went wrong that inning:

1.  Wells got a perfect ground out to SS... but we had nobody playing SS.  I don't care what shift you use, you've gotta have somebody playing close to SS.  We gave them an extra base-runner and an extra out.

2. The sac fly to Mullens... we know he has a bad arm... how do our infielders not know that?  Either the 2B or SS has to set up a relay throw to 2nd base.  Urias makes a lame half-hearted effort, and they get runners on 2nd and 3rd.  

And we give away 2 runs.  Awful baseball.  

 

 

So if a player like 2017 Gallo was at the plate:

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Gallo was the only hitter with at least 200 tracked batted balls who pulled more than half of them -- 50.4 percent -- and his ground-ball pull rate was even higher, with an incredible 70.8 percent of his grounders going to the right side.

You'd leave a guy at Shortstop?

https://www.mlb.com/news/statcast-extreme-pull-oppo-hitters-2017-c262687474

[scOtt]

He was out! WAY out!

 

[SteveA]

Man that is close.  

[scOtt]

Bull crap! Screwed by NY again!

[SteveA]

Hanging in there in this battle of bullpens.

[slakattack]

Give that man a vegomite sandwich!

[Frobby]

Wells escapes.   Fortunate to do so.  

[SteveA]

9 game hit streak for Urias.

[SteveA]

Marquez 3 outs to go.  Only been done once in Coors Field.  Hideo Nomo in 1996.

[scOtt]

6 minutes ago, slakattack said:

Give that man a vegomite sandwich!

 

[spiritof66]

15 minutes ago, slakattack said:

SF Giant Orange came from Balto. Orioles Orange....Orioles (MiL) manager John McGraw brought the colors to the NY Giants when he switched jobs..in the early 1900's

Good story, but I don't think so. During the McGraw years, the Giants frequently switched uniforms and colors, usually using red or blue or both. The first time they tried black and orange was in 1933, the year after McGraw retired, They stayed with those colors for three seasons, then switched to those colors for good in 1951, possibly sticking with them because they won the pennant with their new uni's.

https://blog.heritagesportsart.com/2010/08/san-francisco-giants-uniform-and-team.html

[schittenden]

Strike zone us all over the place. Okay