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Know Your Foe #43: Rockies Head To The Bay To Defeat San Francisco Giants

By Russ Oates Updated

San Francisco Giants (72-59, 5 GB, 2nd NL West, 1.5 WCGB)

Last Series vs. Rockies: 1-1 split @ Coors Field.

Jonathan Sanchez and the Giants' bullpen shut the Rockies down in the first game. Sanchez kept the Rockies off the socring column and surrendered the Rockies' only three hits of the game. Aaron Cook allowed four runs in the first inning. The Rockies came back the next day with a 6-2 victory over Madison Bumgarner. Ubaldo Jimenez picked up his 17th win of the season after allowing one run in seven innings.

Last Two Series Results: 2-1 series victory over Cincinnati Reds; 1-2 series loss to Arizona Diamondbacks

The Giants scored 38 runs in three games against the Reds--and only lost the last game, which went into extra innings. Jonathan Sanchez didn't make it out of the fifth inning in the second game, and Madison Bumgarner didn't even last three full innings in the final game of the series. He allowed seven runs.

Against Arizona, Barry Enright and two relievers blanked the Giants in the first game. Tim Lincecum allowed four runs on five hits, four walks, and a homer.

Monday-Wendesday: 3-game series at AT&T Park

Expected Pitching Match-ups

Monday, 30 August 2010 @ 8:15 p.m. MT

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2010 - Jorge De La Rosa 5-4 13 13 0 0 0 0 75.1 69 43 38 9 38 73 4.54 1.42

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2010 - Jonathan Sanchez 9-8 27 26 0 0 0 0 149.2 119 67 61 18 75 157 3.67 1.30


Tuesday, 31 August 2010 @ 8:15 p.m. MT

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2010 - Esmil Rogers 2-2 21 6 0 0 0 0 49.1 64 39 31 3 17 45 5.66 1.64

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2010 - Madison Bumgarner 5-4 14 12 0 0 0 0 73.0 83 35 32 10 19 52 3.95 1.40


Wednesday, 1 September 2010 @ 7:15 p.m. MT

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2010 - Ubaldo Jimenez 17-5 26 26 3 2 0 0 176.1 130 55 53 8 69 160 2.71 1.13

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2010 - Tim Lincecum 11-9 27 27 1 1 0 0 170.2 163 75 72 15 68 179 3.80 1.35


Expected Lineup

 

Player Pos AVG OBP SLG OPS ISO BABIP wOBA
Andres Torres CF 0.287 0.369 0.502 0.871 0.215 0.354 0.382
Freddy Sanchez 2B 0.287 0.342 0.366 0.707 0.079 0.331 0.315
Aubrey Huff 1B 0.295 0.390 0.523 0.913 0.228 0.297 0.394
Pat Burrell LF 0.270 0.363 0.505 0.867 0.235 0.305 0.366
Jose Guillen RF 0.372 0.413 0.465 0.878 0.093 0.455 0.390
Buster Posey C 0.329 0.372 0.505 0.877 0.176 0.351 0.376
Pablo Sandoval 3B 0.276 0.330 0.424 0.755 0.149 0.298 0.323
Juan Uribe SS 0.250 0.310 0.429 0.739 0.179 0.265 0.319

 

This line up is a bit of supposition, as Bruce Bochy has given the two-spot to Freddy Sanchez. Posey missed the last two days with some forearm pain, which precluded him from getting any playing time. He should return to night, but where in the lineup?

Bench

 

Player Pos AVG OBP SLG OPS ISO BABIP wOBA
Mike Fontenot 2B/SS 0.308 0.357 0.346 0.703 0.038 0.400 0.318
Travis Ishikawa 1B 0.273 0.318 0.406 0.724 0.133 0.316 0.313
Eli Whiteside C 0.240 0.303 0.405 0.708 0.165 0.305 0.307
Aaron Rowand OF 0.237 0.291 0.383 0.674 0.146 0.276 0.294
Nate Schierholtz OF 0.249 0.320 0.371 0.691 0.122 0.281 0.293
Cody Ross OF 0.333 0.308 0.333 0.641 0.000 0.400 0.275

 

Closer

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2010 - Brian Wilson 3-1 54 0 0 0 36 3 57.1 52 13 12 2 22 76 1.88 1.29

 

Injuries

San Francisco Giants Injuries

Questionable

Player Injury Type Injury Date
Buster Posey elbow 08/30/2010

15-Day

Player Injury Type Injury Date
Guillermo Mota leg 08/23/2010
Dan Runzler knee 07/09/2010


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