Know Your Foe #50: Rockies Hoping to Exact Revenge, Bury Giants at Coors Field

by Bryan Kilpatrick on Sep 15, 2011 3:03 PM MDT in Know Your Foe

San Francisco Giants (79-70 / 2nd in the NL West / 7.5 GB)

Last season, the eventual World Series champs all but ended the Rockies' playoff chances in a series at Coors Field in September. This season, the Rockies are hoping to return the favor, and a series victory would more or less do the trick, as the Giants are currently 7.5 back with only 13 games left to play.

2011 Record vs. Colorado: 7-4 (39 runs scored, 35 runs allowed)

Last Series vs. Rockies: June 3-5 (W 2-1 at AT&T Park)

The Giants took the opener 3-1 behind a strong performance from Matt Cain, who went seven innings and allowed just a run on four hits. Meanwhile, Juan Nicasio surrendered three runs on five hits, including two doubles, in the fourth inning and the Giants held on from there. Emmanuel Burris (!?) had three hits for San Francisco, while Cody Ross had a pair of his own.

Game two saw Jhoulys Chacin craft his way through the Giants lineup despite not having his best stuff, and the Rockies held on to win 2-1 in the Fox Saturday telecast. Troy Tulowitzki led the way with three hits, including the patented "RBI single in which he gets himself thrown out at second base." That dastardly Cody Ross hurt the Rox again, this time with a solo homer off of Chacin, but it wasn't enough to give his team their 873rd one-run win of 2011 as Madison Bumgarner lost yet again despite out-pitching his opponent.

The Giants did, however, get that not-so-elusive one-run victory in the finale, and it was in particularly annoying fashion. Chris Iannetta got the Rox on the board in the fifth inning with a solo homer off of Ryan Vogelsong, but his club coughed up the lead in the following inning and gave up the eventual game-winner two innings after that. Jason Hammel was charged with the loss despite only allowing one earned run in seven frames of work. Each team only had four hits in the game. Even worse, Ty Wigginton and Miguel Tejada combined for half of them.

Latest Series Results: L 1-2 vs. Los Angeles (NL), W 3-0 vs. San Diego

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The usual stuff after the jump...

Thursday through Sunday: 4-game series at Coors Field

Expected Pitching Matchups

Thursday, September 15, 2011 @ 6:40 PM MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2011 - Ryan Vogelsong	10-7	28	25	1	1	0	0	162.1	147	56	48	13	56	124	2.66	1.25

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2011 - Jhoulys Chacin	11-11	30	28	2	1	0	0	175.1	145	76	71	19	80	142	3.64	1.28

Friday, September 16, 2011 @ 6:10 PM MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2011 - Madison Bumgarner	11-12	32	30	0	0	0	0	186.2	185	77	69	11	45	178	3.33	1.23

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2011 - Alex White	2-1	4	4	0	0	0	0	22.0	27	21	20	9	11	14	8.18	1.73

Saturday, September 17, 2011 @ 6:10 PM MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2011 - Eric Surkamp	2-0	3	3	0	0	0	0	16.2	18	7	6	1	5	6	3.24	1.38

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2011 - Drew Pomeranz	1-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	2	0	0	0	2	2	0.00	.80

Sunday, September 18, 2011 @ 1:10 PM MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2011 - Matt Cain	11-10	33	31	1	0	0	0	209.1	167	74	65	9	56	170	2.79	1.07

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2011 - Esmil Rogers	6-5	19	12	0	0	0	0	75.0	94	49	49	9	41	59	5.88	1.80

Team Stats - Hitting

Name	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	wRC+	HR	RBI
Pablo Sandoval	0.301	0.345	0.511	0.359	127	19	61
Buster Posey	0.284	0.368	0.389	0.338	112	4	21
Andres Torres	0.223	0.31	0.33	0.295	82	3	18
Nate Schierholtz	0.278	0.326	0.43	0.327	105	9	41
Freddy Sanchez	0.289	0.332	0.397	0.316	96	3	24
Mike Fontenot	0.221	0.301	0.357	0.29	79	3	14
Carlos Beltran	0.325	0.367	0.558	0.397	153	5	14
Aaron Rowand	0.233	0.274	0.347	0.27	66	4	21
Cody Ross	0.235	0.324	0.395	0.316	97	13	49
Pat Burrell	0.23	0.349	0.41	0.339	112	7	21
Chris Stewart	0.199	0.278	0.267	0.24	45	1	7
Brandon Belt	0.218	0.307	0.367	0.304	89	5	12
Ryan Vogelsong	0.191	0.24	0.213	0.21	24	0	2
Jonathan Sanchez	0.207	0.233	0.345	0.251	52	0	1
Eli Whiteside	0.212	0.282	0.333	0.269	65	4	17
Darren Ford	0.25	0.357	0.25	0.241	45	0	0
Madison Bumgarner	0.098	0.179	0.157	0.161	-9	0	1
Brett Pill	0.294	0.294	0.706	0.424	171	2	3
Santiago Casilla	0	1	0	0.692	355	0	0
Dan Runzler	0	1	0	0.692	355	0	0
Jeff Keppinger	0.276	0.309	0.37	0.3	86	2	13
Jeremy Affeldt	0	0.5	0	0.346	118	0	0
Guillermo Mota	0.111	0.111	0.222	0.141	-23	0	0
Hector Sanchez	0.154	0.267	0.231	0.236	42	0	1
Eric Surkamp	0	0.167	0	0.115	-41	0	0
Ramon Ramirez	0	0	0	0	-100	0	0
Conor Gillaspie	0.222	0.3	0.222	0.247	49	0	0
Javier Lopez	0	0	0	0	-100	0	0
Ryan Rohlinger	0	0	0	0	-100	0	0
Matt Cain	0.1	0.141	0.117	0.122	-37	0	4
Mark DeRosa	0.269	0.338	0.299	0.296	83	0	9
Barry Zito	0	0.071	0	0.049	-86	0	0
Miguel Tejada	0.239	0.27	0.326	0.254	54	4	26
Justin Christian	0.118	0.167	0.176	0.145	-21	0	1
Tim Lincecum	0.088	0.133	0.088	0.109	-45	0	1
Brandon Crawford	0.186	0.269	0.251	0.232	39	2	18
Manny Burriss	0.215	0.266	0.223	0.235	41	0	4
Bill Hall	0.158	0.22	0.211	0.199	17	0	1
Orlando Cabrera	0.224	0.244	0.25	0.215	28	0	12
Aubrey Huff	0.245	0.305	0.373	0.294	82	12	58

Team Stats - Pitching

Name	W	L	IP	K/9	BB/9	ERA	xFIP
Matt Cain	11	10	209.1	7.31	2.41	2.79	3.67
Madison Bumgarner	11	12	186.2	8.58	2.17	3.33	3.07
Tim Lincecum	13	12	205	9.31	3.56	2.59	3.27
Ryan Vogelsong	10	7	162.1	6.87	3.1	2.66	3.89
Sergio Romo	3	1	44	12.48	1.02	1.43	1.75
Ramon Ramirez	3	3	62	9	3.48	2.9	3.41
Jonathan Sanchez	4	7	101.1	9.06	5.86	4.26	4.34
Javier Lopez	5	2	50.2	6.93	4.62	2.84	3.98
Brian Wilson	6	4	53.2	8.72	5.2	3.19	3.95
Santiago Casilla	2	2	46.1	7.77	4.47	1.36	3.8
Jeremy Affeldt	3	2	61.2	7.88	3.5	2.63	3.38
Dan Runzler	1	2	23	8.61	5.87	7.43	4.09
Eric Surkamp	2	0	16.2	3.24	2.7	3.24	4.95
Waldis Joaquin	0	0	2	4.5	0	0	2.64
Guillermo Mota	2	2	73.1	8.47	3.31	3.68	3.58
Steven Edlefsen	0	0	8.1	5.4	5.4	3.24	4.43
Barry Zito	3	4	49.2	5.07	3.62	5.62	4.6

Closer

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2011 - Santiago Casilla	2-2	43	0	0	0	3	1	46.1	28	8	7	1	23	40	1.36	1.10

Injuries

San Francisco Giants Injuries

15-Day

Player	Injury Type	Injury Date
Jonathan Sanchez	ankle	08/17/2011
Brian Wilson	elbow	08/16/2011
Nate Schierholtz	foot	08/22/2011

60 Day DL / Out for the season

Player	Injury Type	Injury Date
Buster Posey	ankle	05/26/2011
Freddy Sanchez	shoulder	06/11/2011

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The Giants as a team have a wRC+ of 78

That made me laugh.

"My eyes! The goggles do nothing!" - Rainier Wolfcastle

by BittenAnkles on Sep 15, 2011 4:48 PM MDT reply actions

park and league adjusted

the only organization of humans responsible for more evil in the universe than the philadelphia phillies is the boston red sox

be happy, because 2012 is coming.

by papality on Sep 15, 2011 4:56 PM MDT up reply actions

Even though we've seen this enough this year. Its time to buckle down and beat them.

F THE GIANTS!

Prediction---->Well, Tulo got his 30 homers. Cargo? The countdown is beginning to number 30. 26 down. 4 to go. Plus, Cargo will get 100 RBI's also. 8 to go.
Self taught and falling in love with this game is very easy to do, you can never hate it, and that is something that not one person can take away from anybody. The love of baseball and OUR COLORADO ROCKIES.

by Roxman4ever on Sep 15, 2011 5:17 PM MDT reply actions