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Nice win last night, 7-4. Three things stood out:

1) Rafi Devers, Wilmer Flores, Casey Schmitt and Patrick Bailey homered. 16th game in a row that SFG has homered, tying the 1962 and 1963 San Francisco Giants for longest streak of HR games in a row. They have one more game in Denver tonight and may break that streak. Giants now 20th in MLB for HRs on the season with 147. 

2)  Devers was the second batter of the game when he hit his HR, and Colorado pitcher Freeland came unglued. Donnybrook ensues, SF''s next two batters (Chapman and Adames) come on the field and shove and punch Freeland. All three are kicked out. So Devers moves to third base (first time for SF), Koss moves to shortstop (first time for SF, but SS is his natural position), Schmitt moves to second base (he was injured when he was HBP the day before, but...needed), and Dom Smith moves to 1B. The makeshift infield turned two double plays. Nice.

Smith and Schmitt went 2 for 5, and Koss went 1 for 4. 

It was Devers' 30th home run, and his two RBIs make 96 on the season, obviously most of which came with Boston. Still...nice to have on the team.

3) Walker got his 13th save, Webb got his 13th win.

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There is a chance that each Giants minor league teams will make post season play

Eugene's Nate Furman was named Northwest Player of the Week. He came in the Alex Cobb deal last summer with Jacob Bresnahan (2.13 ERA, 95 strikeouts and 35 walks in 71.2 innings with the SJ Giants). Furman is hitting .364/.490/.649/1.139. As PotW, he hit five HRs, had 11 hits, seven walks and no strikeouts in 32 plate appearances. Just got sent to Richmond, will play in Arizona Fall League. He's a likely add to the 40 man roster since he's eligible for the Rule 5 draft this winter.

Just an opinion…

Furman is 24 years old with only 13 games of experience above the A level prior to this season.  His chances of making the 40 man are remote.  He appears to be a career minor leaguer.

Addendum:

Speaking of HR streaks by the Giants, of the seven streaks of 15+ in franchise history, the 1947 team had three separate streaks, 15, 16, and 19.  That club hit 221 HRs led by Johnny Mize’s 51.  Heck, even the Pride of Alameda, Bill Rigney, hit 17 (a career high).  To put the 221 figure in perspective, only one other team in the majors hit more than 115 (Pittsburgh 165).

17 straight, thanks to Chapman. Two more to tie the all-time club record. The 2019 Yankees connected for an HR 31 games in a row. National league record is held by the Cardinals at 25 games in 2016. I think the Padres hit 25 in a row earlier that season as well.

The 1947 Giants was an amazing team. Willard Marshall had 36 HRs, Walker Cooper had 35, Bobby Thomson had 29. Second most Thomson ever had, best year of Marshall's, Rigney's, Cooper's, Lohrke's and Mize's career. Pitcher Clint Hartung hit four home runs (along with three triples and four doubles). Lloyd Gearhart was the main back up. He played 13 years of baseball, but it was the only year he played in the bigs.

[Mick]

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Nice win last night, 7-4. Three things stood out:

1) Rafi Devers, Wilmer Flores, Casey Schmitt and Patrick Bailey homered. 16th game in a row that SFG has homered, tying the 1962 and 1963 San Francisco Giants for longest streak of HR games in a row. They have one more game in Denver tonight and may break that streak. Giants now 20th in MLB for HRs on the season with 147. 

2)  Devers was the second batter of the game when he hit his HR, and Colorado pitcher Freeland came unglued. Donnybrook ensues, SF''s next two batters (Chapman and Adames) come on the field and shove and punch Freeland. All three are kicked out. So Devers moves to third base (first time for SF), Koss moves to shortstop (first time for SF, but SS is his natural position), Schmitt moves to second base (he was injured when he was HBP the day before, but...needed), and Dom Smith moves to 1B. The makeshift infield turned two double plays. Nice.

Smith and Schmitt went 2 for 5, and Koss went 1 for 4. 

It was Devers' 30th home run, and his two RBIs make 96 on the season, obviously most of which came with Boston. Still...nice to have on the team.

3) Walker got his 13th save, Webb got his 13th win.

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1756838923[/url]']
There is a chance that each Giants minor league teams will make post season play

Eugene's Nate Furman was named Northwest Player of the Week. He came in the Alex Cobb deal last summer with Jacob Bresnahan (2.13 ERA, 95 strikeouts and 35 walks in 71.2 innings with the SJ Giants). Furman is hitting .364/.490/.649/1.139. As PotW, he hit five HRs, had 11 hits, seven walks and no strikeouts in 32 plate appearances. Just got sent to Richmond, will play in Arizona Fall League. He's a likely add to the 40 man roster since he's eligible for the Rule 5 draft this winter.

Just an opinion…

Furman is 24 years old with only 13 games of experience above the A level prior to this season.  His chances of making the 40 man are remote.  He appears to be a career minor leaguer.

Addendum:

Speaking of HR streaks by the Giants, of the seven streaks of 15+ in franchise history, the 1947 team had three separate streaks, 15, 16, and 19.  That club hit 221 HRs led by Johnny Mize’s 51.  Heck, even the Pride of Alameda, Bill Rigney, hit 17 (a career high).  To put the 221 figure in perspective, only one other team in the majors hit more than 115 (Pittsburgh 165).

17 straight, thanks to Chapman. Two more to tie the all-time club record. The 2019 Yankees connected for an HR 31 games in a row. National league record is held by the Cardinals at 25 games in 2016. I think the Padres hit 25 in a row earlier that season as well.

The 1947 Giants was an amazing team. Willard Marshall had 36 HRs, Walker Cooper had 35, Bobby Thomson had 29. Second most Thomson ever had, best year of Marshall's, Rigney's, Cooper's, Lohrke's and Mize's career. Pitcher Clint Hartung hit four home runs (along with three triples and four doubles). Lloyd Gearhart was the main back up. He played 13 years of baseball, but it was the only year he played in the bigs.