Week 1 Giants vs. Mets and Dbacks

What a great way to start off the season with two inspired performances by our Giants. Even our fans deserve a hand for hanging in there through a 2-inning drizzle. After dusting off some early inning first-game nerves the Giants were able to rally for 5 runs in the bottom of the 4th inning to take the lead away from the feisty Mets.

As expected, we had excellent production from the top of our order. With great table-setters like Trevor and Nic and the big hitters behind them, other NL teams can expect trouble from our lineup this year. Everyone contributed with excellent baserunning allowing us to take advantage of some timely hitting, including a bases clearing deep-shot triple by Ben Linberg. I think the centerfielder is still chasing that ball. Brayden Porter came up huge in the bottom of the 4th with a clutch single for the game tying RBI. Trevor opened the floodgates with the go-ahead RBI. Total production included 7 hits and 9 walks against 8Ks. Defensively there was some nice pitching from Ethan and Roberto who were able to find the umpire's elusive strike zone. Between the two pitchers there were 11 strikeouts against only 9 walks and 7 hits, not too bad. The Giants also gloved up a little bit with 4 put-outs including two caught-stealing put-outs from Ben at catcher. Runners beware, bases don't come cheap against our Giants...

Game 2 brought the Diamondbacks and their fine pitching. The Giants offense erupted for 17 runs on 11 hits and 11 walks against only 2 strikeouts. Only two strikeouts means we were putting the bat on the ball very well. The middle and bottom of the lineup was the story in this game with most of the run production coming from Ethan, Easton and Brayden. Some solid extra-base hits from Easton and Jordan also helped clean the bases. Defensively the story was the TRIPLE PLAY in the first inning. This was a no-joke, legitimate L-1 - 5 -4 triple play. Bases loaded, no outs, a solid line-drive speared by Trevor on the mound, who then threw a seed to Ethan at third to double off the runner, who then fired a perfect strike to Savion at second base for the third out.. WOW, very impressive for each kid to not only be in the right place in that game situation, but to execute as they did. Great job guys and a definite momentum swing in the first inning. I am very proud of the game awareness our kids are showing early in the season. I was also very impressed to see our youngest kid Savion, toe the rubber for three very solid innings of pitching in his first National league appearance. Way to go kid, can't wait to see more. See you at practice on Thursday. Go Giants....