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3-2 us.
MADBUM!!
But who do we go with now? Vogelstrong? Hudson? If we win it all tomorrow it is going to be a combined effort from our pen...
early on i predicted the giants in 6.... fingers crossed. if only we had 2012 barry zito...
3-2 us.
MADBUM!!
But who do we go with now? Vogelstrong? Hudson? If we win it all tomorrow it is going to be a combined effort from our pen...
early on i predicted the giants in 6.... fingers crossed. if only we had 2012 barry zito...
Hudson or Peavy should get us through with our strong bullpen in last two games. KGO ABC News said it would be those two with Bumgarner standing by in game 7 if it went that far. We have Lincecum, Casilla, Romo, Petit, Afeldt, and many to choose from. If starting guy gets through 4 and falters, then the best mid reliever is Lincecum and he kept us steady in game 2 retiring all five he faced. Romo may not be our 9th inning guy but he looks incredibly good.
It may come down to if our guys could hit. Ventura is not Shields, but he's so solid as their #2 that he could easily be #1 on many teams as a starting pitcher. Shields (1,626 strikeouts/3.72 ERA) is like Bumgarner in that he has such a wide array of pitches coming off just one consistent motion that he's hard to read. Ventura seems to be a very fast, 100 mph fast ball guy and I would still rather face him. But Ventura is still a weapon. Announcer said if Ventura could get his strikes low he will do well but if he can't make the ball sink then he will be in trouble with the type of hitters on the Giants. Depending on his ability to drop the ball, we will either have a close game or have a blowout and get a lot of hits early but that could be said of any fastball pitcher facing an October Giants squad.
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The Taveras news was so shocking. He had a lot of big hits against the Giants in his young career. He made his debut against us and hit a big home run in his second AB (against Petit, IIRC). Then, of course, he hit the pinch hit HR in Game 2 of this year's NLCS. I was convinced he would be a Giant killer for years to come.
Giants' outfielder Juan Perez was a close friend of and a mentor of sorts to Taveras. Perez had a terrible time before the game trying to get himself mentally prepared for Game 5, as you can imagine. However, he was able to focus and ended up missing a 400-foot home run off the "unhittable" Wade Davis by about six inches. What an emotional moment that must've been for him.
Taveras' brother is a prospect in the Giants' organization. Baseball is a small world.
One. More. Win.
Giants' outfielder Juan Perez was a close friend of and a mentor of sorts to Taveras. Perez had a terrible time before the game trying to get himself mentally prepared for Game 5, as you can imagine. However, he was able to focus and ended up missing a 400-foot home run off the "unhittable" Wade Davis by about six inches. What an emotional moment that must've been for him.
Taveras' brother is a prospect in the Giants' organization. Baseball is a small world.
One. More. Win.
The sadness affected the whole team and it was as if Perez lost his brother. No doubt it was a death in the family for him and the close knittedness of the Giants was said to have an emotionally down team before game time yesterday. I didn't see it but the local news reported on it after the game.
The win was huge, yes, but the loss of Taveras was a loss directly felt in the locker room. Don't expect any lengthy interviews from Juan Perez if the Giants win it all.
http://www.si.com/mlb/2014/10/27/world-series-juan-perez-giants-oscar-taveras-friend-death
Ventura scares me the most.
peavy worries me the most.
if hudson can get that early season form up and running we will be fine.
Peavy wasn't that bad in Game 2. A bit unlucky to start off that fateful inning, and then Bochy brought in Machi and Strickland to throw gasoline on the fire. Highly doubt he'll do the same this time.
The Giants are a good fastball-hitting team, especially the heart of their order. I'm thinking they'll be able to make the necessary adjustments. As much grief as Bam Bam Meulens gets for his work as the Giants' hitting coach, their approach and concentration at the plate in October always gets kicked up several notches.
I'm still nervous, but I think we take care of business. More 2010 in Philly, less 2002 in Anaheim.
The Giants are a good fastball-hitting team, especially the heart of their order. I'm thinking they'll be able to make the necessary adjustments. As much grief as Bam Bam Meulens gets for his work as the Giants' hitting coach, their approach and concentration at the plate in October always gets kicked up several notches.
I'm still nervous, but I think we take care of business. More 2010 in Philly, less 2002 in Anaheim.
If we had anything other than a big hitting Bonds in 2002, we wouldn't have even made it there. The 2002 Giants were too one dimensional and even though we lost, America then and so many years after was just too obsessed with loving/hating Barry Bonds and the elusive HR. He was baseball for too many years and I think that actually detracted away from the Giants as a team and too many fans forgot that Dusty Baker took us from obscurity to where we are now forming a high percentage/small ball style core that would take us into the current dynasty in a spirit of small ball winning. We had a lot of HoF big time home run hitters in the past, but I think not only the Giants but many other teams started seeing the value of on base percentage best brought to success by the A's during that time period. The unfortunate thing is that KC are masters at that game, too.
KC is so resilient and at home so I expect a full 7 games and everybody getting their money's worth. Yes, I want to see a win tonight but I will be far more satisfied in future years if the Giants play a close game decided in extra innings in a 7th game. It would make this the WS to remember for us. 2010 was great because it was our first, and 2012 was great because we played in the playoffs with our backs against the wall in NLDS and NLCS against teams that were much deeper/talented than us and then facing the better Detroit Tigers, so a 7 game series needs to happen to make this one stand out on this trip.
We got to WS and even if we win it, the talking heads will know that we are nowhere close to being the best NL team and our odds to get to 2015 WS are slim, as it was in 2012 and this year. Nobody is going to think we are a Yankees or Cardinals or Dodgers.
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don't be a sissy
let's have madbum bail us out in 7th game and have him get MVP ... we're trying to start a dynasty, right?
We already have heroes like MVP Renteria, Lincecum (2010) and later MVP Sandoval, Posey, Zito (2012) and now Ishikawa (second shot heard round the world in NLCS) and let's add ole Bumgarner to that list for this year who should get MVP if we win it all.
If we do win wouldn't it be great to have Madbum pitch the 9th? He so deserves it having played a quiet backseat to Lincecum and Cain at first, then Cain and Zito in two World Series.
Really want to see KC win it all. So refreshing to see a team that hasn't been in the postseason in decades on the brink of a win. Not really interested in seeing the Giants for the third time in five years, that's just getting old IMO.
Yes, I'm from the land of the Twins, a perennial suck team.
Yes, I'm from the land of the Twins, a perennial suck team.
I completely agree.
The Royals are off to a big start - scored 7 runs in the bottom of the 2nd inning. I hope it holds up.
1 out 8th, zero to ten, yikes
Time to consider Madbum starting tomorrow night:
http://blog.sfgate.com/ostler/2014/10/28/hey-bochy-start-bum-in-game-7/
But wife is happy Royals did very well tonight so I have to at least consider the happy wife here. Royals look like bearded lawn gnomes with special baseball powers and she really likes that.
Time to consider Madbum starting tomorrow night:
http://blog.sfgate.com/ostler/2014/10/28/hey-bochy-start-bum-in-game-7/
But wife is happy Royals did very well tonight so I have to at least consider the happy wife here. Royals look like bearded lawn gnomes with special baseball powers and she really likes that.
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The only positive thing I have to say is this: momentum has not really meant that much in this series so far. These Giants have done a lot of unprecedented things the past five years: why not become the first team to win a World Series Game 7 on the road since the 1979 Pirates?
Alas, Willie Stargell has left the building, and I am not optimistic. I have zero expectations tonight. The Giants did have a great and unexpected October run without two critical players, so I guess I'll have that to hang my hat on this winter no matter what happens tonight.
Alas, Willie Stargell has left the building, and I am not optimistic. I have zero expectations tonight. The Giants did have a great and unexpected October run without two critical players, so I guess I'll have that to hang my hat on this winter no matter what happens tonight.
I feel the same way, and if somebody said during the spring that we would be in the series without Cain and Lincecum, they would be put away in the mental ward. Hudson who? Peavy? Ishikawa, Panik? But it seems equally unlikely at the outset of the season that we would see KC here. This will be great fun either way, especially if it's close giving the whole world something to be excited about.