[Mick]

Good story on Beck in the Athletic. Ross Stripling was highly complimentary of Beck, who has a 141 ERA+ in 50 major league innings, meaning he's doing 41% better than the average MLB pitcher. Stripling said "He's got an amazing heater. He's got two amazing breaking balls...he's a savage out there." Kapler also highly complimentary of Beck.

Giants can only send Beck down one more time without exposing him to waivers.

Giants are 14-4 when using Alexander, Walker or Brebbia as openers. I don't imagine that strategy will change much. ANd they're 31-26 against teams with .500 or better records, fifth best in MLB.

Giants now 15-5 using starters as openers, having used Alexander as today's opener, and winning 1-0 on Late Night Lamonte Wade's home run. They are 46-44 in all other games. Maybe not a fluke?

They only had three baserunners total...Conforto had a single and Diaz had a walk. Beck got the win, now 3-0. Manaea, Jackson, Rogers all got holds, Doval got MLB's leading 33rd save.

Giants now 12 games over .500, third in the league at 61-49, four games behind the Dodgers, all in the loss column and 1.5 games ahead of the Phillies for the first wild card slot.

Here's how the 2023 schedule compares YTD with the three world championship years in 2010, 2012 and 2014:

2023    61-49
2010    63-47
2012    60-50
2014    60-50

[Mick]

Good story on Beck in the Athletic. Ross Stripling was highly complimentary of Beck, who has a 141 ERA+ in 50 major league innings, meaning he's doing 41% better than the average MLB pitcher. Stripling said "He's got an amazing heater. He's got two amazing breaking balls...he's a savage out there." Kapler also highly complimentary of Beck.

Giants can only send Beck down one more time without exposing him to waivers.

Giants are 14-4 when using Alexander, Walker or Brebbia as openers. I don't imagine that strategy will change much. ANd they're 31-26 against teams with .500 or better records, fifth best in MLB.

Giants now 15-5 using starters as openers, having used Alexander as today's opener, and winning 1-0 on Late Night Lamonte Wade's home run. They are 46-44 in all other games. Maybe not a fluke?

They only had three baserunners total...Conforto had a single and Diaz had a walk. Beck got the win, now 3-0. Manaea, Jackson, Rogers all got holds, Doval got MLB's leading 33rd save.

Giants now 12 games over .500, third in the league at 61-49, four games behind the Dodgers, all in the loss column and 1.5 games ahead of the Phillies for the first wild card slot.

Here's how the 2023 schedule compares YTD with the three world championship years in 2010, 2012 and 2014:

2023    61-49
2010    63-47
2012    60-50
2014    60-50