Saw two SFG batters get drilled in the first inning by a pitcher who clearly didn't have his control. A third SF batter was hit later in the game, on a breaking pitch. As of right now, there have been a total of 1,351 games played and 1,080 hit batters, about 0.8 batters total hit per game, or 0.4 on one team. So odds of one team's batters getting hit three times in a single game is about one in 140, roughly once a season.
Krukow took the occasion to lament the fact that the first pitcher to hit a batter never gets warned or ejected, but when the other team's pitcher hits a batter -- whether or not it is a retaliation -- both teams get warned, and the pitcher might get ejected. Krukow, to put it mildly, was not a fan of the protocol:
Giants broadcaster blasts umpire's hit-by-pitch protocol
Two other points:
1. Krukow mentions that SFG batters were regularly and repeatedly getting drilled...and that was true in the month of June, Giant batters had the third highest HBPs in MLB. But overall this season, SFG batters have been hit 38 times and the MLB average is 36.
2025 Major League Baseball Team Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com
2. SFG pitchers, on the other hand, befitting one of the best pitching staffs in baseball, have hit only 28 batters, 7th fewest in MLB.
3. I think part of Krukow's concern (unstated) is who has been hit. Maybe the Giants' best batter, Heliot Ramos, the Giants OPS+ leader and All-Star candidate has been hit 11 times, 7th most in MLB. SFG's RBI leader, Wilmer Flores has been hit the second most on the team, five times. Jung Hoo Lee, third most and SFG's other OPS+ leader, Matt Chapman, has been hit fourth most. Casey Schmitt, the third guy tied for the OPS lead has been hit three times in 122 plate appearances. Devers has been here for half a cup of coffee, he's been hit, Dominic Smith has 82 plate appearances, he's been hit twice.
The guys who aren't hitting as well or with power -- Adames, Yaz, Bailey, Koss, Wade, Wisely, Johnson, Encarnacion, Huff, Matos, Knizner, have been hit collectively six times in over 1,600 at bats.
Krukow took the occasion to lament the fact that the first pitcher to hit a batter never gets warned or ejected, but when the other team's pitcher hits a batter -- whether or not it is a retaliation -- both teams get warned, and the pitcher might get ejected. Krukow, to put it mildly, was not a fan of the protocol:
Giants broadcaster blasts umpire's hit-by-pitch protocol
Two other points:
1. Krukow mentions that SFG batters were regularly and repeatedly getting drilled...and that was true in the month of June, Giant batters had the third highest HBPs in MLB. But overall this season, SFG batters have been hit 38 times and the MLB average is 36.
2025 Major League Baseball Team Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com
2. SFG pitchers, on the other hand, befitting one of the best pitching staffs in baseball, have hit only 28 batters, 7th fewest in MLB.
3. I think part of Krukow's concern (unstated) is who has been hit. Maybe the Giants' best batter, Heliot Ramos, the Giants OPS+ leader and All-Star candidate has been hit 11 times, 7th most in MLB. SFG's RBI leader, Wilmer Flores has been hit the second most on the team, five times. Jung Hoo Lee, third most and SFG's other OPS+ leader, Matt Chapman, has been hit fourth most. Casey Schmitt, the third guy tied for the OPS lead has been hit three times in 122 plate appearances. Devers has been here for half a cup of coffee, he's been hit, Dominic Smith has 82 plate appearances, he's been hit twice.
The guys who aren't hitting as well or with power -- Adames, Yaz, Bailey, Koss, Wade, Wisely, Johnson, Encarnacion, Huff, Matos, Knizner, have been hit collectively six times in over 1,600 at bats.
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