If the Giants of San Francisco will run to a point of joker of the National League, they will need a burning September.
They had a good start with an 8-2 victory against the Colorado rockies on Monday in the opening of a series of three games in Denver.
The Giants (69-69) and Colorado (39-99) will be back Tuesday evening.
San Francisco, which is five games from the last point of Joker, will send the right-hander Logan Webb (12-9, 3.16 ERA) to the mound Tuesday against the left-handed of the Rockies Kyle Freeland (3-13, 5.28).
Webb will face Colorado for the 18th time in his career – and the 17th start – when he takes the mound. In his previous appearances against the Rockies, he has a 9-3 file with an MPM of 3.10 in 101 2/3 sleeves. Nine of these departures came to Denver, where it is 3-2 with an MPM of 4.44.
It will be the second start of the webb season against Colorado. He obtained the decision on May 4 during a victory on the 9-3 route for San Francisco, granting only one point on six strokes with two goals on balls and six sticks in the stick in seven heats.
The giants had only 1 1/2 games of first place after this victory and entered the break of the stars with a file of 52-45, but it has been difficult since then. San Francisco lost 23 of his first 32 games after the stars break and had trouble scoring races during a 2-11 section.
Things started to turn around in the last week of August. San Francisco won eight of the nine and on average 8.5 points in these victories.
“We went through a difficult period when we could not score points,” said Giants manager Bob Melvin. “You look where we are in the league in marked points and it’s not great, but we have the ability to do it.”
San Francisco showed that Monday by extending his Home Run sequence at 15 games, the longest of the majors this season. The recruit Drew Gilbert struck his second and Rafael Devers (29) and Willy Adames (26) also added to the Home Run dam in San Francisco.
Freeland will try to keep the giants in check on Tuesday.
Freeland, who faced San Francisco more than any other Majors team, has an 8-7 sheet with an MPM of 4.21 in these 26 appearances (all departures). Tuesday will be his third departure this season against the Giants, but he did not record a decision in these outings despite three points in six rounds in both cases.
Freeland has just released a strong outing in Houston on Thursday when he recovered from three first races to record a start of quality. The veteran said that his ability to make adjustments during the game had been vital.
“When you start to deepen the games, you start to make the small adjustments and things are starting to come back to you,” said Freeland after the loss of 4-3 of the Rockies. “It is constantly adjusted in the game. Pitch to launch, at-BAT in the head, sleeve in the sleeve. You must make these adjustments.”
– field level media
