Johnny Cueto was on the money Sunday. Tweet. Johnny Cueto shines again, early homers lift… Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) What should fans expect in 2020? Especially after he was shelled by the rival Dodgers for six runs over four innings (no-decision) in his previous start. Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
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Loss takes us to -832 blylevens. Ryan Castellani, who picked up his first major league win last week, goes for the Rockies.The Tigers devoured the Twins, 8-2, in a mercifully short seven innings. Flores’ fifth home run of the season was the 18th hit by a Giants player with two strikes this summer and their fifth three-run home run as a team at Oracle Park.“His approach doesn’t change (with two strikes), he’s constantly looking throughout an at-bat to look for a pitch to drive and elevate,” Kapler said.In the fourth inning, Slater hit his own two-out home run that also brought home shortstop Brandon Crawford, who recorded his fifth extra-base hit in the last four games with a double against Sandoval earlier in the inning. Chadwick Tromp set up low and outside, but Cueto’s quick-dropping changeup stayed over the middle of the plate, and Escobar whacked it over the right-field fence.Cueto exited after issuing a two-out walk to Jake Lamb, whom he got looking as one of six strikeouts earlier in the game, taking him out of the decision. … But yeah, if my phone rings … wherever they send me I’ll be happy.”Kapler said he hasn’t been in touch much with the front office in the past 48 hours but believes his team is a playoff-caliber one regardless of the moves made — or not made — Monday.Now, as one of seven team within two games of the second wild-card, Giants executives will have to answer — in the form of action or inaction — some of those outstanding questions.
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Taylor Clarke goes for the D’backs. The Giants began as if they would approach their offensive onslaught the night before, but faded at Coors Field. Platoon be damned, Giants put Alex Dickerson in the lineup after historic night Kapler opted to give the eighth inning to Tyler Rogers and the ninth to Sam Coonrod, who retired the side 1-2-3 for his first career save.Some other relevant numbers: $26 million, or the amount Cueto is due between his 2021 guaranteed contract and 2022 club option. Johnny Cueto brought his entire bag of tricks with him to Los Angeles for the Giants' 2020 MLB season opener Thursday.During the first few innings, the Giants ace busted out several different types of shimmies to throw off the timing of the Dodgers' hitters.We've seen Cueto shimmy before, but some of these were stranger than normal. In a year unlike any other, the Giants and 29 other teams will wake up Thursday morning with just 11 days until Major League Baseball's trade deadline.
Johnny Cueto notches six strikeouts over 6 2/3 innings of one-run ball in his start against the D-backs Tickets. San Francisco Giants pitcher Johnny Cueto throws against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first inning during a baseball game, Sunday, Aug 30, 2020, in Phoenix. Detroit had 16 hits, 12 charged to the losing pitcher Randy Dobnak.
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On back-to-back batters in the fourth inning, Cueto threw two-strike changeups low in the zone for swinging strikeouts. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) But the Giants did not wait long to answer.Alex Dickerson had sent the sixth pitch of the game into the right-field bleachers to get the Giants on the board. Kapler said Crawford could have sat in favor of Mauricio Dubón, but he stuck with him anyway and rewarded Crawford’s strong at-bats of late with his third start this year against a left-handed pitcher.The Giants knew keeping Darin Ruf in left field and Hunter Pence in right field was also a defensive risk, but it was center fielder Mike Yastrzemski who made a costly miscue with his glove in Cueto’s final inning.