September 28th, 2012
The Final Countdown
- San Francisco Giants 3 – San Diego Padres 1
- There are only 5 more games in the regular season
- Marco Scutaro extended his hitting streak to 16 games
- Buster Posey is leading the NL in hitting
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- Jeremy Affeldt & Andy Baggerly
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- Clay Hensley & Andy Baggerly
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- Xavier Nady
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- Brandons
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- Ryan Vogelsong
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- Hunter Pence
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- Buster Posey
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- Buster Posey
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- Buster Posey
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- Pablo Sandoval
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- Brandon Belt
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- Marco Scutaro
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- Brandon Crawford
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- Brandon Belt
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- Ryan Theriot
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- Jose Mijares
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- Angel Pagan
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- Xavier Nady
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- Jeremy Affeldt & Buster Posey
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- Pablo Sandoval
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- Joaquin Arias
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- Getting A Good Shot
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- Javier Lopez
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- Santiago Casilla
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- Post Season Grid (as of today)
Quick Hits for Friday, September 28, 2012 (Game 157)
TONIGHT’S GAME…The San Francisco Giants visit the San Diego Padres in the 1st game of this 3-game series…Giants’ right-hander Ryan Vogelsong (13-9, 3.58) will face Padres’ left-hander Andrew Werner (2-2, 4.64).
A NEW LEADER…C Buster Posey overtook Andrew McCutchen for the NL batting title race yesterday as Posey went 2-for-4 and McCutchen went hitless in 4 at-bats…Posey now leads the NL with a .333 avg. while McCutchen is 2nd with a .332 mark…the last Giants player to win the NL batting title was Barry Bonds in 2004 (.370)…in fact, since 1876, only 7 Giants players have won the NL batting crown and just twice since 1958 (both by Bonds).
Check out today’s complete game notes, which contain more stats than 6 Geese-A-Laying.
SCUTARO’S STREAK…IF Marco Scutaro enters tonight’s game with the longest active hitting streak in the Majors, having hit safely in a career-best 15 games…during this stretch he’s batting .452 (28-for-62) with 4 2Bs, 1 HR and 14 RBI…he’s just 16 hits away from 200 this season, but just 6 games remain on the regular season schedule.
AT AT&T PARK…The Giants finished their home portion of the schedule with a 48-33 (.593) record…the offense hit .267 (711-for-2,665) at home while averaging 3.8 runs per game (308 runs/81 games)…SF’s 31 HRs at home were the fewest they’ve ever hit at AT&T Park and the 3rd-fewest home HRs in SF-era history.
PABLO SANDOVAL… Is hitting .400 (12-for-30) over his last 9 games with 4 HRs and 11 RBI… Homered from both sides of the plate for the 1st time in his career on Sept. 20.
THE GIANTS…finished their 2012 home schedule yesterday with a 7-3 win against ARI, wrapping up a 10-game homestand with an 8-2 record vs. COL, SD & ARI.
SEPTEMBER TO REMEMBER…SF’s .708 (17-7) win pct. this month is tied with Atlanta for the best mark in the Majors…if the Giants were to win 3 more games this month it would be the 1st time they had 20 wins in a month since July 2010 (20-8)…the Giants haven’t had 20 wins in September since 2000 when they went 20-9.
