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#SFGiants #MLB

The Giants beat the #Braves 9-0 & take the series 2-1 and Verlander notches his FIRST win after 17 starts as a Giants pitcher. 👏👏👏

Verlander threw 5 shutout innings & gave up only 1 hit with 3 Ks but he also gave up 5 walks. Fortunately, they didn't hurt him or the Giants.

Still not sure this is reason enough NOT to put Verlander on the chopping block for the coming trade deadline but it is nice to see that he can pitch well enough & get the run support that has been lacking in his games to win one.

Go Giants!!! 🥳🥳🥳

Carson Seymour pitched the final 2 innings of today's game against the Braves, and didn't give up a run. From the MLB Gameday ball locations, he seems to want to pitch to contact. He tended to pitch toward batters' heat zones. If you have enough action on your pitches, that could work well.

Sandy Koufax said, "I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it." That's a great approach. Especially now, when so many pitchers throw 95+ mph. Batters get good at hitting blazing fast pitches. So get clever.

The Giants had several draftees sign for less than slot, including their 1st round pick, but a 9th round right-handed pitcher, Reid Worley, out of Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia, got $500K above slot. Hard to tell what he's got from the warm-up pitches I saw videos of, but his mechanics look good. He has a fastball, lol.

It was not a good day for Hayden.

Birdsong(L, 4-4) 0.0 innings pitched, 1 hit, 5 runs, 5 earned runs, 4 walks, 0 strikeouts, 0 home runs (the hit was a double), 1 wild pitch, and 1 batter hit by a pitch, resulting in a 4.80 season earned run average after the 19 balls, 6 strikes debacle.

Atlanta over SF 9-5.

These days, I'd have at least 1 pitcher warming up in the bullpen once the 5th inning ended. Getting a starter through the 6th is challenging, most days.

Toronto 6, SF 3. The umps might also be annoyed Canadians. It's best to expect the worst, and some of what Jon Miller called theatrics thrown in. Even if they're not Canadian umps, the crowd roared when the Giants' challenge was rejected, with dramatic effect by the crew chief, lol.

Tomorrow's game between the two begins at an unheard-of time of 9:05 in the wee hours of the morning, PT. Heck, I'm just getting to sleep right about then.