Giants drop three bigly to Washington Nationals.
Outscored 21-5 in three games. Ouch.
Farhan Zaidi had been talking about getting one starter and maybe a shortstop at the trade deadline.
It's looking more like he needs three starting pitchers, and 6 hitters.
FWIW, the strategy of platooning righty versus lefty and vice versa, resulting in 5 runs in 3 games is not working well.
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Diamondbacks were red hot. (Literally and figuratively)
Go figure.
Giants are playing a make-up game in Detroit this morning. Miguel Cabrera just got a hit. Still playing.
I almost feel guilty recognizing the names of players that the old-time hosts chat about.
Of course, Al Kaline's name came up for the series.
He never copyrighted or trademarked Alkaline!
But he didn't. ( Something tells me he couldn't 
)
So in 4 games, it's 26-6, and if I heard John Miller right, Wilmer Flores got 5 HR's on the trip, including the only run today.
I went over to the site and this is funny. Some guy in a 28 jersey (doesn't that sound familiar?) caught Wilmer's HR.
Probably not Posey (or a Posey jersey)
What I can't understand are the three-pitch outs, and the "CALL STRIKE THREE" ...or the "SWINGING STRIKE THREE". Way too many of them.
Are opposing managers pranking the vaunted SF Giants analytics by asking pitchers to do the exact opposite of what's charted? That is, throw a slow curve when the statistics say "first pitch fastball?"
Analytics are always an average, and you can always prank averages by doing the opposite of what they say you'll do.
Just wondering. Analytics make you predictable, just as much as, or even more than the opposition you're measuring.
On edit: this is REALLY CRITICAL, because management (including their Maga owner) has to decide "buy or sell" like right now, and I am guessing that a fire sale is going to cause more grief than a buy decision.
