10-06-2022, 05:42 AM
The Giants did it!
The 2020 Giants became the first team in FRANCHISE HISTORY to finish a season exactly .500! I told you guys the Giants were a .500 team :)
Interesting final day. John Brebbia made his 75th appearance as opener. That's reliability right there. His WHIP is a little too high for my taste (1.30), but you can't go wrong with that kind of consistency and a 3.18 ERA for a middle innings reliever and opener.
David Villar homered twice, to finish with 9 for the Giants season, and making him the 2nd best HR hitter on the team with 17.3 AB/HR. If you combine his Sacramento numbers with his Giants ones, he hit 36 HRs this season at a one ever 12.6 AB clip. Have to think he is being penciled in to the 2023 plans. Will be interesting to see how Casey Schmitt - who is a better hitter and fielder than Villar - and even Marco Luciano fit in to the mix.
And the most quirky event of the last game saw Austin Slater bunt for a base hit with ball being ruled fair and him being thrown out. Having lost their challenge earlier, the Giants had no challenge, so Slater asked the umpires to discuss themselves. They did and ruled it was foul. Slater promptly hit a HR off the Left Field scoreboard!
The 2020 Giants became the first team in FRANCHISE HISTORY to finish a season exactly .500! I told you guys the Giants were a .500 team :)
Interesting final day. John Brebbia made his 75th appearance as opener. That's reliability right there. His WHIP is a little too high for my taste (1.30), but you can't go wrong with that kind of consistency and a 3.18 ERA for a middle innings reliever and opener.
David Villar homered twice, to finish with 9 for the Giants season, and making him the 2nd best HR hitter on the team with 17.3 AB/HR. If you combine his Sacramento numbers with his Giants ones, he hit 36 HRs this season at a one ever 12.6 AB clip. Have to think he is being penciled in to the 2023 plans. Will be interesting to see how Casey Schmitt - who is a better hitter and fielder than Villar - and even Marco Luciano fit in to the mix.
And the most quirky event of the last game saw Austin Slater bunt for a base hit with ball being ruled fair and him being thrown out. Having lost their challenge earlier, the Giants had no challenge, so Slater asked the umpires to discuss themselves. They did and ruled it was foul. Slater promptly hit a HR off the Left Field scoreboard!