Monday 4/1: James Paxton vs. Keaton Winn
Tuesday 4/2: Tyler Glasnow TBD vs. TBD Logan Webb
Wednesday 4/3: Bobby Miller Tyler Glasnow vs. TBD Kyle Harrison
All games, 7p
With the Giants' off-season excising of Gabe Kapler and the decision to move on from shortstop stalwart Brandon Crawford, San Francisco finally took the opportunity to re-tool their lineup this off-season...and went nuts. Six years, $113M to Korean Baseball Organization star Jung-Hoo Lee; three years, $54M (and opt-outs!) to 3B Matt Chapman, and two-years, $62M (also with opt-outs!) to 2023 Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell.
So far, Farhan Zaidi's moves have paid off. The Giants are 2-2 including Chapman's two-HR performance to earn the Giants' first win, followed by Lee's first MLB home run in Saturday's win over the Padres. (The Giants were spanked by the Padres, 13-4, on Sunday.)
Speaking of which, guess what other Asian star does not have a home run yet this year? (Shohei Ohtani, who is also batting .269 with a .656 OPS, to Lee's .286 BA / .868 OPS.)
Dodger foil Blake Snell will likely get one of the two "TBD" starts in this series. In the regular season, Snell is 2-2 with a 2.59 ERA lifetime against the Dodgers, but we'll always have this.
So there's a lot of reasons to bring the hateHateHATE to this series, but here's another one: thanks to this stupid balanced schedule, this is one of only two series the Giants will play in Los Angeles this year. So bring your vitriol.
UPDATE 4/2 11.38a: Tyler Glasnow's start shifted to Wednesday, so there's a TBD for today's game. Giants named their starters for Tuesday and Wednesday--and neither start is slated for Snell.
UPDATE 4/3 8.50a: Game Thread for Game 9 is here.
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I never liked Gabe Kapler so I hope he let the door hit him in the ass on the way out. And as for Blake Smelly Snell I will forever be grateful that Cash pulled him out of Game 6 so we could rightfully win the World Series.
GAME 1
Betts SS .500 BA / 1.757 OPS
Ohtani DH .269 / .656
Freeman 1B .286 / .893
Smith C .455 / 1.045
Muncy 3B .348 / .907
T Hernandez RF .250 / 1.016
Outman CF .118 / .436
Taylor LF .200 / .700
Lux 2B .200 / .400
Paxton P (0-0)
WTF. Lourdes Gurriel of the Snakes just took NL POTY, over Mookie. Impossible!
Gurriel: 8-for-17, 3 HR, .471 BA, 6 R, 10 RBI, OPS+ 315
Betts: 11-for-22, 4 HR, .500 BA, 9 R, 10 RBI, OPS+ 344
WHAT THE FUCK
Fuck 'em all. Dicks.
I'm not entirely sold on Paxton. I hope he proves me wrong.
Did anyone else hear the ESPN crew talking about Charlie Steiner breaking his back? Yikes that would suck.
The NOT player of the week leads off with a triple
1-9 Boys after 1.
'Jorel' saying that the loser Gnats spent the second most money in the Free Agency Sweepstakes after we know who. The representatives of Evil will never even belong on the same field with our Boys.
@7:26 not 9, 0.
3-0 LA
damn. Paxton gets out of a bases loaded jam. nearly crapped my pants.
Conforto with the solo. 3-1 Good Guys
Teoscar!!
TeO hits a 3 run bomb!!! 6-1 Boys
8-3 LA
that's a wrap
WIN BABY!!! The Boys in Blue whoop some orange and black ass. 8-3 LA
GAME 8
SS Betts
DH Ohtani
1B Freeman
C Smith
3B Muncy
RF T Hernandez
CF Outman
2B Lux
2B K Hernandez
P Bullpen Game
Really. I have no frickin' idea what I do to cause those big spaces after my comment.
Who is this umpire?? Horrible calls on Mookie
If anyone doesn’t have Spectrum, tonight’s game is available on MAX.
game tied after
1-1
Did anyone see that eagle that landed on James Paxton's shoulder when he was with Seattle? Check it out, it's really crazy.
MOOKIE TIES IT UP!!! 2-2 B3
Mook!!
That's two straight Ks for Slappy with a RISP.
2-2 tie through three full.
(sorry I'm late, karen and spank! what are we drinking tonight?)
Oh, the bottom of our lineup is atrocious.
Outman BA .091
Lux .167
Kike .125
Muncy doubles, Teoscar walks. So let's see how these bottom of the lineup scrubs go with two on and none out.
Outman lines out sharply to first. One out.
LUX DOUBLES!!!
3-2 LA! Teoscar to third.
Kike scores two more on a RBI single!
5-2 LA
Lux's average jumps to .200
Kike's average jumps to .222
Betts flies to right, but Ohtani walks on four pitches. I think that's it for Logan Webb.
dammit. i missed all the scoring
whats up saxy
nice diving catch by Kiké
Wilma (Flintstone) Flores singles to center. Evil Ones cornered with no outs. 5-3 Dodgers
5-4 now. Yarborough giving it up
Max actually looked like a third baseman there
Willie Mays catch for Kike
Now would be a good time for Shohei to get in touch with his inner Shohei
Nope
Two on and none out, but Kike and Mookie both K. Here’s Shohei
Welp that was short. One-pitch ground out.
5-4 LA through 6
Michael Grove in to pitch the seventh
Lee Ks for a second time
Grove Ks Chapman!
5-4 LA, mid-7
Freeman reaches, Slappy flies out. One out.
still 5-4 mid 8th. Dodgers pitching out of a couple jams.
Phillips Ks Patrick Bailey for the first out.
5-4 LA, T9
Nick Ahmed pops to third. Two out.
Jung Hoo Lee finally gets a hit. Single to right makes him 1-for-5 tonight. Two out.
Oh, this is dangerous with Chapman up.
Chapman Ks!
WIN
I'm going to the game tomorrow! Let me know if you'll be there...
that's a wrap
5-4 LA
YAy!! WE WIN!!!
PGT up. I'm going to put up a new GT for tomorrow's series finale.
Game Thread for Game 9 (Wed 4/3) is here.
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