8/31 Giants (Bumgarner) @ Cubs (Volstad) - 1:20 pm, CSN

[haubrich91]

San Francisco Giants (74-57) @ Chicago Cubs (50-80)

 

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Madison Bumgarner

14-8, 2.93 ERA

Career vs. Cubs: 3-1, with a 2.08 ERA in five starts. 34.2 IP, 40 K, and 7 BB.

 

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Chris Volstad

1-9, 6.28 ERA

Career vs. Giants: 1-2, 2.67 ERA in four starts. 27 IP, 24 K, and 5 BB.

[davell]

Brett sitting out this game wouldn't piss me off.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Nice stats for Volstad vs. the Giants. Now how many of those games were played at AT&T? Yesterday's game was fun, but I don't expect the streak to hit the big 2.

[Little Slide Rooter]

@PWSullivan: Cubs moves: Beliveau up, Raley down. Cardenas, Campy, Sappelt up Saturday. Socolovich up Sun. Rusin, Recker, Dolis to follow.

[otis89]

Who the heck is Socolovich?

[Little Slide Rooter]

Who the heck is Socolovich?

 

some reliever we picked off waivers from Baltimore and DFAd Lalli. I'm pretty sure he's the righty equivalent of Alex Hinshaw.

[Sammy Sofa]

Fliers are decent except when they're not except when they're decent.

[El Duderino]

Bumgarner owns the Cubs.

[MWV]

At least Vitters made him throw more than 3 pitches.

[Sammy Sofa]

MORE DEEP COUNTS.

[Sammy Sofa]

Who the hell is this team?

[bukie]

33 pitch inning while allowing two base runners.

[MWV]

Approach has been amazing the past few days. PAs of 9 (BB), 8 (K), 7 (K), 6 (RBI 1B) and 2 (LD out) pitches.

Hopefully we are seeing the beginning of a new era of pitcher-grinding 4.5 hour Yankee-style deathmarch games.

[MWV]

As I finish typing, Volstad retires the side on fewer pitches than Vitters saw in his first AB.

[davell]

I'm not watching and it was Joe Mather on first, so even though he stole second, I doubt there was a ton of throwing to first. That said, is there a stat that shows those kinds of things? Does it affect a pitch count in any way or should it? Tendencies towards players batting behind a bigtime base stealer getting more FB's, thus a higher BA for the season?

 

Basically, I'm wondering if a Billy Hamilton does have extra value that's actually determinable or if it's just an unquantifiable, non-stat and truly has no effect on anything?

[Sammy Sofa]

Two relatively quick outs by Castillo and Jackson (though, hey, they made contact!) so Barney rights the ship with a walk.

[Careless]

niiiice

[Guest]

Soriano!

[davell]

Damn, part of me still thinks he's playing against us tomorrow.

[Guest]

This is fun.

[Sammy Sofa]

Holy balls! Castillo with an ItP HR!

[Careless]

ha!

[Sammy Sofa]

[expletive], Bumgarner robbed Jackson of a rocket single up the middle with a nice snag above his head.

[Schwarber Fan]

It's like little league!

[illiniguy]

Dammit these guys are gonna be good enough next year to make me get EI again, aren't they? Maybe not good enough, but interesting enough.