Game Thread: 3.30 Hicks @ Fathers

[tzill]

1. J Lee (L) CF
2. J Soler (R) DH
3. L Wade Jr. (L) RF
4. M Chapman (R) 3B
5. W Flores (R) 1B
6. M Conforto (L) LF
7. T Estrada (R) 2B
8. T Murphy (R) C
9. N Ahmed (R) SS

Jordan Hicks
RHP
0-0, -.-- ERA, 0 SO

waffle those dirty waffles....6-3 good guys.

 

[stanford the manford]

I like these early leads, team seems loose

 

[msgkings322]

So far so good

 

[sf1giantfan]

I wonder if they will let Bart play before they release him?

 

[msgkings322]

Righty Rogers not sharp to start the year

 

[calsnowskier]

So is Hicks going to be the biggest FA signing this year? OMG

 

[Hangman]

This season is looking good so far

 

[msgkings322]

This season is looking good so far

Don't want to get too crazy but yeah in 3 games seeing some nice things. Lee looks legit. Conforto maybe will hit like we thought he would. Chapman, Hicks, Webb, Harrison, others doing well. Nice to think of the team as potentially a wild card team vs thinking no chance to start the year

 

[Hangman]

Well shit

 

[msgkings322]

OK what the fuck. Seriously.

 

[Hangman]

Finally. Win

 

[calsnowskier]

This was a test for Miller. He failed, but he learned. Doval is a head case. We knew this.

 

[filosofy29]

https://x.com/mikeyastrzemski/status/1774275779310022735?s=20

 

[msgkings322]

First place!

 

[calsnowskier]

First place!

If the season ended today…

Pirates
Braves
Giants/DBacks (coin flip)
Brewers
Giants/DBacks (coin flip)
Dodgers

 

[tzill]

Maybe Forto will stay healthy
Maybe Hicks will remain in the rotation
Maybe Lee is a legit leadoff hitter
Maybe Chapman isn't a K machine
Maybe this bullpen will get its shit together?


Lets take the series

 

[tzill]

Baggs today in the Athletic:

Jung Hoo Lee did something totally unexpected in his first major-league at-bat. He struck out.

He swung at the first pitch of the San Francisco Giants’ season and fouled off a four-seam fastball from the San Diego Padres’ Yu Darvish. Then he looked at a dump-in curveball. Then he looked at another four-seamer down the middle. Then he walked back to the dugout. A bit later that afternoon, Lee didn’t have time to savor his first major-league hit. Darvish picked him off first base.
Lee was asked after his debut: Any nerves? Any pressure? His shaking head required no translation.

Perhaps opposing pitchers should be nervous. Because if Lee was sandbagging to start his major-league career, or at least seeing a couple of strikes to feel everything out, then it took just those three pitches for all the lights on the board to show green.
Lee hit his first major-league home run in the Giants’ 9-6 victory Saturday at Petco Park. He put the ball in play in all five plate appearances. And the more granular you get while analyzing his first three games, the more gold flecks you find.

Lee hasn’t struck out since that first at-bat. In his 14 plate appearances, he has seen 58 pitches. He’s swung at 20 of them. He’s swung and missed just once, at a Dylan Cease slider in the fifth inning Saturday.

Lee has seen a total of 20 pitches out of the strike zone. He’s swung at just three of those, including a good piece of situational hitting on a high fastball that resulted in a sacrifice fly Friday.

Lee has put 12 pitches in play, and six of them have registered at 100 mph or harder off the bat. His softest contact was 80.4 mph. His hardest was 108.9. And his 406-foot home run in the eighth inning came during a left-on-left matchup against Padres sidearmer Tom Cosgrove.

This guy might just be really special.

 

[filosofy29]

https://x.com/SFGiantsJeezus/status/1774300481990672512?s=20

 

[tzill]

SSS and all, but the lineup is 11-for-26 with runners in scoring position over three games.