7/18 Cheering, Venting and lol Bochy

[GiantsFan14]

Since I've been forced to make this thread so I can post about the early games while I procrastinate doing homework, I'm pretty much going to post some stuff about the Giants and you guys can all just gloss over it and get to chatting.

Andrew Baggarly ‏@CSNBaggs
I asked Bochy if Sanchez's bat is preferable to Belt's. "Yeah, I think that's fair to say. Wouldn't you?"

No Bochy, I would not.

Brandon Belt: .246/.356/.402
Hector Sanchez: .281/.286/.383

How can a major league manager have literally no idea how to value OBP?



Not only does playing Hector put a much worse hitter in the line up, but Hector is a TERRIBLE reciever and Belt is a great defender at first. You're massively downgrading two positions defensively so that you can put a worse hitter in the line up. There is not a worse manager in baseball.

I obviously don't blame Sanchez for Bochy, but I can't help but be a little happy to see Hector going on the DL (it's not a serious injury). I just hope to all hell that Brandon produces in the time that he's out or I have no faith whatsoever that he'll ever play again.

I don't know where you guys get your game info from, so you're gonna have to deal with lol formatting.

Game Time Team Name Record

1:05 p.m. ET TOR Ricky Romero (8-5, 5.03)
NYY Hiroki Kuroda (8-7, 3.67)

2:10 p.m. ET STL Adam Wainwright (7-9, 4.62)
MLW Tyler Thornburg (0-0, 7.36)

3:10 p.m. ET PHI Cliff Lee (1-6, 3.92)
LA Clayton Kershaw (7-5, 2.84)

3:10 p.m. ET PIT James McDonald (9-3, 2.59)
COL Jeremy Guthrie (3-9, 6.14)

3:35 p.m. ET TEX Colby Lewis (6-6, 3.51)
OAK Travis Blackley (2-2, 3.20)

3:35 p.m. ET HOU Wandy Rodriguez (7-7, 3.51)
SD Clayton Richard (6-10, 3.83)

7:05 p.m. ET ANA C.J. Wilson (9-5, 2.43)
DET Doug Fister (3-6, 4.39)

7:05 p.m. ET NYM Chris Young (2-3, 4.28)
WAS Jordan Zimmermann (6-6, 2.48)

7:10 p.m. ET CWS Pedro Hernandez (0-0, 0.00)
BOS Felix Doubront (9-4, 4.41)

7:10 p.m. ET SF Ryan Vogelsong (7-4, 2.36)
ATL Mike Minor (5-6, 5.97)

7:10 p.m. ET ARZ Ian Kennedy (6-8, 4.55)
CIN Mat Latos (7-2, 4.10)

7:10 p.m. ET CLE Justin Masterson (6-8, 4.14)
TB Jeremy Hellickson (4-6, 3.48)

8:05 p.m. ET FLA Josh Johnson (5-6, 4.28)
CHC Jeff Samardzija (6-8, 4.71)

8:10 p.m. ET SEA Kevin Millwood (3-7, 3.71)
KC Bruce Chen (7-8, 5.50)

8:10 p.m. ET BAL Tommy Hunter (3-4, 6.11)
MIN Francisco Liriano (3-8, 4.93)

PS- after starting the season 42-25, the dodgers are now 48-44. That's a 6-19 stretch.

[GiantsFan14]

Anthony Gose leading off and strikes out vs Kuroda.

[GiantsFan14]

In other news, Ricky Romero is bad and Yankees stadium is still a joke of a park.

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[GiantsFan14]

Brett Lawrie had to be helped off the field after crashing into the photographer's well trying to catch a pop up. Apparently it didn't look good.

[The_Show]

In other news, Ricky Romero is bad and Yankees stadium is still a joke of a park.

He was showing signs of improvement in his last 2 starts, but I wouldn't look at this game as a red flag. I've owned Romero for the better part of the last 3 years and I've learned to never start this guy against NYY or BOS. It seems like both of those teams just own him. Every. Single. Time.

[bayside]

Brett Lawrie had to be helped off the field after crashing into the photographer's well trying to catch a pop up. Apparently it didn't look good.

it looked awful. he couldnt put his weight on it while being helped to the clubhouse.
conflicting reports on knee and ankle.


just what my team needed. Another freakin injury. Ellsbury finally came back and i immediately lose Bautista and Lawrie.
At least tehyll look nice on my DL next to Beachy and Morrow


edit - ml network now saying "calf" injury for Lawrie. so who knows

[GiantsFan14]

oh man kershaw vs lee, awesome.

o/u 1.5 ER allowed combined?

[bayside]

hopefully under...
but im sure Lee will find a way to give up 4 or 5

[juliown1028]

Cliff Lee career against LAD: 4 starts, 30 IP, 3 ER 35 Ks
Kershaw career against Philly: 7 starts, 40 IP, 22 ER, 43 Ks

Should be interesting...