The inaugural post for The Giants' Series Weekly is happily here. This blog is about the Giants, so get used to that. If you're still here, then you'll get your fill of stats, Buster Posey worship, and shameless predictions on the games to come. So without further delay:
This series, starting in about three hours (7:30 Pacific) is against the last place Colorado Rockies. As teams go, these Rockies aren't exactly the '55 Yankees. The Giants, as well as any first place team, probably feel like they should win any series they play with Colorado this year. And so far, the Giants are six and two against Colorado. Furthermore, the Giants have vastly outscored the Rockies, who have the worst ERA (5.42) in all of the National League.
The Rockies' staff has issued 3.9 walks per nine, and allows the opposition a staggering .293 batting average clearly is vulnerable. On the other hand, the Rockies have the second best offense (BA 268, OPS 768) in the National League by every metric other than Runs Scored, a metric the Rockies are ranked third in.
In the upcoming series, the Giants are rematched against Tyler Chatwood, who's eight starts this year have been typical of the Rockies staff. He has allowed nine walks, 23 hits, and twelve earned runs in just 16.1 innings of work. The good news for the Rockies, is Tim Lincecum, and Barry Zito, both of whom are, recently or otherwise, shadows of their former Cy Young glory.
The only real issue for the Giants in this first game is Tim Lincecum. Not accounting for Tyler Chatwood dealing the majors' 23rd perfect game, it's likely the Giants will score a few runs. Odds are if Tim Lincecum can keep the ball down in the zone, this will be a happy blog later tonight. Otherwise we might mistake AT&T park for Coors' Field just for an evening.
-Bean
This series, starting in about three hours (7:30 Pacific) is against the last place Colorado Rockies. As teams go, these Rockies aren't exactly the '55 Yankees. The Giants, as well as any first place team, probably feel like they should win any series they play with Colorado this year. And so far, the Giants are six and two against Colorado. Furthermore, the Giants have vastly outscored the Rockies, who have the worst ERA (5.42) in all of the National League.
The Rockies' staff has issued 3.9 walks per nine, and allows the opposition a staggering .293 batting average clearly is vulnerable. On the other hand, the Rockies have the second best offense (BA 268, OPS 768) in the National League by every metric other than Runs Scored, a metric the Rockies are ranked third in.
In the upcoming series, the Giants are rematched against Tyler Chatwood, who's eight starts this year have been typical of the Rockies staff. He has allowed nine walks, 23 hits, and twelve earned runs in just 16.1 innings of work. The good news for the Rockies, is Tim Lincecum, and Barry Zito, both of whom are, recently or otherwise, shadows of their former Cy Young glory.
The only real issue for the Giants in this first game is Tim Lincecum. Not accounting for Tyler Chatwood dealing the majors' 23rd perfect game, it's likely the Giants will score a few runs. Odds are if Tim Lincecum can keep the ball down in the zone, this will be a happy blog later tonight. Otherwise we might mistake AT&T park for Coors' Field just for an evening.
-Bean
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