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Giants win 5-2.  Stanford's Slater got on base five times, going 2-2 with three walks, his 8th stolen base and an HR.  Joey Bart, 2 doubles, Belt a pinch hit double and almost hit a very long home run.  Dickerson HR.  Smyly pitched great.  Defense was terrific.  Daniel Robertson, normally a shortstop, was in left field.  Hampson hit a ball headed for the corner, Robertson cut it off, threw a rope to 2B, threw out the speedy Hampson.  Giants now 27-27, tied with Milwaukee.  Coonrod got the save with two strikeouts, and about 1/2 dozen 100 mph pitches.

Every game is "must win" it seems, but a lot of contributors tonight.

Robertson's throw from LF to gun down Pillar (who also had a very good game for the Rockies) at second for first out of inning was key play of the game.  

Belt's almost homer would have been a salami!

Dickerson with a very nice PH(?) dinger.

Smyly pitched pretty well.  The only move I didn't like real time was taking out the lefty who had 0.00 ERA with a runner on 1B and 2 outs, in favor of the righty submarine guy.  Pillar smoked a double down the LF line and tied the game at 2.  Other than that, Kapler's decisions looked all good.

Slater has 8 steals in 9 attempts . . . nice!

Rogers has actually pitched quite well after about the first week of the season.   (He gave up 9 runs in two games the first week or so) What is bizarre is that right handlers are hitting significantly better against him than left handlers.

It wasn't so much bringing in Rogers (though I admit to being skeptical when it comes to one-pitch pitchers . . . not named Rivera); but rather, taking out a guy who has a 0.00 ERA in real innings pitched.  Plus, his stuff is really good.  Maybe Pillar's R/L splits are THAT mind-boggling that Kapler felt he had to do that.  But man, let the guy at least get into some trouble (a runner in scoring position) before being yanked.  It sucks that somebody else caused him to lost the perfect ERA.

And I'm with Phogge re: Pillar.  I'm sure the asking price was too high, but I like having tough, gamers on the roster.

Cueto (shaky lately), Smyly, and Gausman is not a bad trio for the starting rotation next season.  But it would be great to add a legit #1 or #2.

[teejers1]

Giants win 5-2.  Stanford's Slater got on base five times, going 2-2 with three walks, his 8th stolen base and an HR.  Joey Bart, 2 doubles, Belt a pinch hit double and almost hit a very long home run.  Dickerson HR.  Smyly pitched great.  Defense was terrific.  Daniel Robertson, normally a shortstop, was in left field.  Hampson hit a ball headed for the corner, Robertson cut it off, threw a rope to 2B, threw out the speedy Hampson.  Giants now 27-27, tied with Milwaukee.  Coonrod got the save with two strikeouts, and about 1/2 dozen 100 mph pitches.

Every game is "must win" it seems, but a lot of contributors tonight.

Robertson's throw from LF to gun down Pillar (who also had a very good game for the Rockies) at second for first out of inning was key play of the game.  

Belt's almost homer would have been a salami!

Dickerson with a very nice PH(?) dinger.

Smyly pitched pretty well.  The only move I didn't like real time was taking out the lefty who had 0.00 ERA with a runner on 1B and 2 outs, in favor of the righty submarine guy.  Pillar smoked a double down the LF line and tied the game at 2.  Other than that, Kapler's decisions looked all good.

Slater has 8 steals in 9 attempts . . . nice!

Rogers has actually pitched quite well after about the first week of the season.   (He gave up 9 runs in two games the first week or so) What is bizarre is that right handlers are hitting significantly better against him than left handlers.

It wasn't so much bringing in Rogers (though I admit to being skeptical when it comes to one-pitch pitchers . . . not named Rivera); but rather, taking out a guy who has a 0.00 ERA in real innings pitched.  Plus, his stuff is really good.  Maybe Pillar's R/L splits are THAT mind-boggling that Kapler felt he had to do that.  But man, let the guy at least get into some trouble (a runner in scoring position) before being yanked.  It sucks that somebody else caused him to lost the perfect ERA.

And I'm with Phogge re: Pillar.  I'm sure the asking price was too high, but I like having tough, gamers on the roster.

Cueto (shaky lately), Smyly, and Gausman is not a bad trio for the starting rotation next season.  But it would be great to add a legit #1 or #2.