Yoshinobu Yamamoto (11-8, 2.72) vs. Justin Verlander (3-10, 4.09).
The Giants, left for dead after picking up the clubhouse cancer that is Rafael Devers (and subsequently trading away decent players at the deadline), have strangely surged back into third place in the NL West, and sit only 1.5 games back of the Mets for the last-wild card spot (the Reds share the Giants' 74-72 record). Devers, who now has played in almost the same number of 2025 games with both Boston and San Francisco, has a much lower WAR with SF (1.7 vs. 2.2 with Boston), but is still a formidable hitter with a .824 OPS / 136 OPS+ (vs. a .905 OPS / 149 OPS+, the latter of which was a career high).
We have seven games against San Francisco this season, starting with this one, and you just know Oyster Pubes would love nothing more than seeing the rival Dodgers roll over and play dead, like they did in most of July and August. Giants homer Grant Brisbee just posted a piece that basically called the Dodgers a disappointment, whose mortality this season has been exposed by aging veterans and insufficient young guns from the farm system.
Speaking of the Dodgers' young guns, Yoshinobu Yamamoto may come into this game salty. He was denied a no-hitter in his last start, cruelly losing the last out to a potentially-catchable fly ball to center that was met with little defensive effort on the part of Andy Pages. The center-field angles in Birdshit Park are equally precarious, so I'm hoping Pages has had some time to shag some balls out there this morning.
Oh, man. This is gonna be bad.
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finally a real rivalry game
FucK the Hated Ones!!!
No Spanky in the lineup.
Oops!!!! No Slappy!!!
I can't believe Justin Verlander is 42 or 41. It's all too ugly.
I'm innocent.
Fuck the Gnats!
CRAP!!!! I hate the giants.
well shit
1-0 SF, mid 3. Just turned it on after dinner.
Ugh
Oh, I missed another Pages error.
What a surprise.
Yams has a good third inning.
Phillies, Brewers won.
Padres down 4-1 to the Rox
Well, at least Conforto didn’t GIDP there, as I expected. .
I think Pages is safe
Apparently NY doesn’t like the Dodgers. Fuck.
I still blame Pages for the error. And Conforto for being useless
Where the heck is everybody tonight?
score some runs for yoshi goddammit
We look like shit, probably because we aren’t playing the Rockies
@spank: amen
Teo swinging wildly again. He Ks with Muncy on first.
Verlander has been good, but Yamamoto has been excellent
Holy shit, Conforto?!
no way
Conforto leadoff HR ties it in the seventh.
Rortvedt almost got that one. Wow.
IBB Ohtani to get to Mookie with two outs. Hmm.
This is the ballgame here
Mookie with a weak first-pitch fly out to right. Not good.
1-1
aww mook. damn
yoshi's thinking damn do i have to pitch a perfect game to get a win
Teoscar is so fucking bad right now.
teo first pitch swinging. smh
And now Muncy is hurt thanks to the HBP.
If we don’t show some fucking backbone and offense here, we are fucking weak sauce
At least we have established that Rortvedt can call a game well.
Guys, they hit Muncy.
Show some fucking offense for goodness sake
Pages fouls out to first.
WEAK
Rortvedt giving me Mickey Tettelton vibes
BOOOOOOOO
Mookie botches the throw to first, so the lead runner is on for the Giants in B9.
fuck
Teoscar was playing back, allowing the runner in first to advance to third
Men at the corners with one out. Doc calls for Treinen.
We are gonna lose this one.
At least the Padres already lost.
Here we go: Wilmer Flores redemption right here.
Pages had that runner by a MILE
Pages!!
I can’t believe they sent that pinch runner on that shallow fly ball.
Rortvedt also stepped up there
Similarly, why is Rortvedt running on that one?! Stupid
of course
im not evem gonna blame Scott or the pitching. you're not gonna win shit scoring one run
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