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Open GameThread, 5/25

McCovey Chronicles — Current Series Rockies lead the series 1-0 Fri 05/24 WP: Tyler Chatwood (3 - 0) LP: Tim Lincecum (3 - 4) 0 - 5 loss Colorado Rockies Purple Row @ San Francisco Giants McCovey Chronicles Saturday, May 25, 2013, 1:05 PM PDT AT&T; Park Juan Nicasio vs Barry Zito Mostly sunny. Winds blowing out to center field at 10-15 m.p.h. Game time temperature around 60. Complete Coverage > Sun 05/26 1:05 PM PDT 1. Angel Pagan CF 2. Marco Scutaro 2B 3. Pablo Sandoval 3B 4. Buster Posey C 5. H...

San Francisco Giants 7 hours ago

GameThread Into Darkness

McCovey Chronicles — There are probably better ways to spend your Saturday afternoon. Here are some ideas: - Clipping your toenails- Giving your cat a bath- Eating an entire thing of candy beans

San Francisco Giants 7 hours ago

Kemp Shouldering Big Burden

Sons of Steve Garvey — I was taking a dump this morning and reading the LA Times sports section (one often leads to the other), and noted a piece regarding Matt Kemp's lingering shoulder issues, post-surgery. I guess we all knew there would be complications after this type of surgery, but Matt is young and great and gives cleats to sick kids and stuff, and he was ready for Spring Training, so I think many of us just glossed over the fact that many baseball players who have gone through the same surgery have experienced lingering issues for a long time afterward. Clearly, Kemp is in that category at this point. And e...

Los Angeles Dodgers 9 hours ago

Post-Game 46 Thread: Jobbed

Sons of Steve Garvey — CARDINALS 7, DODGERS 0 I actually didn't get to see much of this game. Turns out I didn't miss much. Three hits. Two errors. No runs. Terrible starting pitching. The one moment I did tune in, A.J. Ellis looked like he was dead on the ground after eating a spear from Jon Jay. Swell. So, on a day where everyone and their mom assured us that Donnie isn't getting fired, we're left looking at a team that still has something very, very wrong with it. (And I'm left pulling for Ted Lilly to win an imaginary wrestling belt.) National TV tomorrow? That should be fun.

Los Angeles Dodgers 17 hours ago

minor lines, 5/24/13

McCovey Chronicles — Friday highlights from the Giants' farm: Cole Gillespie, Mark Minicozzi, and Mitchell Delfino each homered in multi-hit efforts.AAA: Fresno lost to Colorado Springs 13-8Fresno: CF Gary Brown: 2 for 4, 2B, BBFresno: LF Cole Gillespie: 2 for 4, HR, BBFresno: RF Roger Kieschnick: 2 for 4, 2B, HBP, SOFresno: 1B Chris Dominguez: 4 for 5Colorado Springs: CF Tyler Colvin: 3 for 3, HR, 3 BB, 2 SBColorado Springs: SS Charlie Culberson: 4 for 6, 3B, 2B, SO, SBFresno: SP Boof Bonser: 3.1 IP, 10 H, 9 R, 9 ER, 4 BB, 1 K--1 HR, 1 IBBDominguez's four singles paced the Grizzlies' fifteen-hit attack, r...

San Francisco Giants 18 hours ago

Giants run "Turn Back the Clock to 2011" promotion, realize it's a horrible, horrible promotion

McCovey Chronicles — Here's my vision: A kind of Bill & Ted's future, with students sitting in a sterile, amphitheater-like setting. A professor at the front, using his future stick to move through future slides on the future screen. And he's using pictures of Tim Lincecum to explain something. Either how luck can blind the otherwise objective analyst, or how objectively poor pitching was often mistaken for poor luck in the '10s. Students make semi-interested sounds and take notes. The frustrating part of the vision: I have no idea which one the professor is teaching. We'll figure it out one day. But f...

San Francisco Giants 18 hours ago

DBacks 5, Padres 2: Padres pitchers pummeled in 7th

Gaslamp Ball — 2nd Inning A cringing Carlos Quentin chugged around the first base en route to second after hitting a ball into the left field corner. His knees are seriously effed right now always. Yonder Alonso singled him in. Quentin grimaced while trotting home, giving the Padres the 1-0 lead. The Padres thought that's the only run they'd need with Eric Stults on the mound. 1-0 Padres 7th Inning Bud Black seemed perfectly content to let Eric Stults finish the game. Stults seemed gassed. He gave up back to back doubles to start the inning. Then a walk. Then another double. With Arizona now...

San Diego Padres 21 hours ago

The Looming Inevitability of Free Agency

El Lefty Malo — The Giants are highly unlikely to win another World Series this year. That's not me talking, that's statistics and probability. The grilled salmon and avocado tacos I had for lunch are also talking, but never you mind. Whatever the eventual...

San Francisco Giants 23 hours ago

Dilbeck: Blame Ned Colletti

Sons of Steve Garvey — Look, it's a thin bench! Trying to weave the narrative around the Dodgers' imploding 2013 season, Steve Dilbeck of the LA Times cites the thin bench strength as a primary liability: General Manager Ned Colletti loves those scrappy, versatile types, which would explain a roster that was set up to have Nick Punto, Skip Schumaker, Juan Uribe and Jerry Hairston Jr. as its primary backups. Except that with injured shortstop Hanley Ramirez missing most of the season so far and Luis Cruz proving worthless offensively, bench guys and players who were supposed to be in the minors are having to sta...

Los Angeles Dodgers May 24, 2013

Game 46 Thread: May 24 vs. Cardinals, 7p

Sons of Steve Garvey — "Y2C" Chris Capuano (1-2, 4.84) vs. Lance "Jerry" Lynn (6-1, 3.27) Drama! Infighting! Losing records! Bullpen implosions! Firing rumors! None of that matters now as we've reached the most critical point of the entire season: The Dodgers get a shot at the Eye On Baseball Heavyweight Championship! What the hell am I going on about? Allow Dayn Perry, co-creator of the title, explain: Since the concept of championship belts is cool in boxing, MMA and sports entertainment (aka pro wrestling), the Eye on Baseball team has decided to create a Heavyweight Championship belt for the 2013 season. As...

Los Angeles Dodgers May 24, 2013

The secret about the Colorado Rockies and ex-Giants catchers

McCovey Chronicles — Ha ha, suckers. This isn't really a series preview. This serious, scholarly research into a subject that's long fascinated me, but one that I've never explored in depth. This will not interest 90 percent of you, which is why it's probably a good thing to get up on a Friday afternoon. Not like that's stopped me before. No, this is about catchers. Specifically, the ex-Giant catchers the Rockies have employed in their 20-plus years. Since the Rockies were borne of fire, purple death, and carefully monitored moisture in 1993, they've used 37 different catchers. Of those, nine were ex-Giant...

San Francisco Giants May 24, 2013

Barry Zito's scouting report

McCovey Chronicles — Back when the news broke about the Hall of Fame's vast repository of scouting reports, baseball nerds freaked out. What was Frank Robinson's scouting report like? What was Brooks Robinson's scouting report like? What was Jeff Robinson's scouting report like? I had the autograph of one of those Robinsons growing up. Go on. Guess. But all of that excitement was counterproductive, as the Hall of Fame's database was really just a retired, 73-year-old teacher using WebTV. You'd enter a query, and if Mildred was up, she would go to the kitchen, rummage through the boxes, find the scouting re...

San Francisco Giants May 24, 2013

Will Chris Denorfia Continue to Give Arizona’s Pitchers Fits This Weekend?

Chicken Friars — At 6:40 this evening, the Padres will open up a three-game series against the Diamondbacks. Although Arizona is tied for first in the NL West, I am sure that there is one Friar in particular who is happy that he will be heading to up Chase Field this weekend: Chris Denorfia. Although “Deno” has been [...]Will Chris Denorfia Continue to Give Arizona’s Pitchers Fits This Weekend? - Chicken Friars - Chicken Friars - A San Diego Padres Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More

San Diego Padres May 24, 2013

Andre Ethier And The Microwave Death Stare

Sons of Steve Garvey — Three days old, but still some funny stuff. Here's a GIF, via Deadspin via The Big Lead via 1000 Steps, of Andre Ethier acting like a tough guy to home plate umpire Dan Bellino. This of course was the last we saw of Andre Ethier in Milwaukee, as coach Don Mattingly benched Ethier before the Wednesday series-ending game, despite the fact that it would have been a favorable matchup for Ethier. Mattingly has almost always defended his players since becoming the Dodgers' manager more than two years ago. But in explaining why Ethier was out of the lineup Wednesday, Mattingly said, "I'm tryin...

Los Angeles Dodgers May 24, 2013

As The Don Mattingly Turns

Sons of Steve Garvey — The extra off-day also gave the media time to speculate on whether Don Mattingly is done as Dodger manager. For one thing, Mattingly came out with plenty of barbs in pre-game interviews in Milwaukee: If the Dodgers’ owners have not already decided to fire Don Mattingly, the manager all but fired himself on Wednesday. In his latest and sharpest comments distancing himself from the organization, Mattingly appeared to criticize the Dodgers’ free-spending ways. Mattingly has pointed enough fingers at players and the front office over the past few days that he must either suspect his days are nu...

Los Angeles Dodgers May 24, 2013
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