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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.
Team Photo Day
2012 Official SF Giants Team Photo
It’s that time of the year again. Before today’s game the team stopped by right field to take the 2012 Giants Team Photo:
Back Row: Jeremy Affeldt, Madison Bumgarner, Hunter Pence, Matt Cain, Ryan Vogelsong, Barry Zito, Javier Lopez, Brandon Belt
Fourth Row: Aubrey Huff, Angel Pagan, Clay Hensley, Sergio Romo, Tim Lincecum, Hector Sanchez, Brandon Crawford, Jose Mijares, George Kontos
Middle Row: Justin Christian, Joaquin Arias, Francisco Peguero, Marco Scutaro, Buster Posey, Pablo Sandoval, Gregor Blanco, Ryan Theriot, Santiago Casilla, Eric Hacker
Second Row: Mike Murphy, Shawon Dunston, Roberto Kelly, Tim Flannery, Ron Wotus, Bruce Bochy, Dave Righetti, Mark Gardner, BamBam Meulens, Bill Hayes, Joe Lefebvre
Front Row: Bret Alexander, Joe Day, Ron Garcia, Haro Ogawa, Anthony Reyes, Dave Groeschner, Mark Gruesbeck, Carl Kochan, Taira Uematsu, Brandon Evans, David Lowenstien
Seated: Marco Alioto
16 members of the current SF Giants team have been in San Jose earlier in their careers
