The Giants still stun the Reds and come back to win 6-5

If you agreed late, the Reds seemed to demoralize the Giants with consecutive innings at the end of the first run against Jeff Samardzija and end the start of the third part of this four-game series earlier.

Seriously. One of the reasons this happens so late is that the photo tool we used to embed images in the titles of these articles had: nothing After the start of the first run, there are images of Jeff Samardzija disappointed and a host of celebrations of the Reds.

Given the recent history of the Cincinnati Giants and Samardzija's home-run homer in the first quarter, Eugenio Suarez's first lap was only 338 feet away with an exit speed of 94. 8 mph and an expected batting average of .190; Jesse Winker's had an exit speed of 103.3 mph and a speed of 0.620 xBA; and the demolition shot by Derek Dietrich had an exit speed of 110 mph and a resolution of 0.980 xBA – assuming it was over before it actually started was a logical conclusion.

It turns out, however, that baseball really does not matter what you just did. There is no logic in the way a game unfolds. If there are any outs, the chance of being humiliated still exists. And one way or another, our demoralized giants have found a way to humiliate the Reds.

Remember, the giants have been horrible in Cincinnati over the last decade. Just terrible.

Yes, except for these three games in 2012.

The match on Friday night was more or less identical after the Reds' 8-0 win. The Giants came back and won, but the 9-2 defeat against their return to their natural state is uninteresting. This afternoon began like many other afternoons in the birthplace of Skyline Chile.

Kevin Pillar may have misinterpreted Joey Votto's flyball, hiring a runner for Suarez, who then switched from a pitch to the opposite pitch for his home run. The Giants have given so many hits to the Reds that it is not surprising at this point. It is demoralizing because the Giants can not hit any of them themselves.

Sure is not just a "low-cost player," but Kyle Farmer's home in the ninth inning has an expected batting average of 0.080. It was very frustrating to see the Giants lose and lose so badly in Cincinnati, and just sad not to be able to hit like the Reds in what is actually a very good park to score points.

Friday night was a minor miracle. Today's 6-5 victory was a miracle. Just look at Bruce Bochy's face:

So, how did we get here?

The Giants were opposed to their former hope, Luis Castillo, whose 50 strikeouts were in third place in the National League. He had an absence of a batter in five innings and a 4-point lead on the back of that first barrage of shots at home.

Jeff Samardzija conceded goals at home. He looked very vulnerable at first. It's very important to remember that the Reds hit four home runs in this game and lost it again.

With Castillo, Samardzija was blown up after the first pitch, and the Giants having already won a match on Friday night in a way that they had not won for nearly 30 years, a miracle victory could not be dedicated to anyone's mind. .

And then Jeff Samardzija settled down. After the Reds scored three times before even registering an exit, he was lined up, skipped, attacked, and pulled out, then withdrew the next 12 batters until he was eliminated by Steven Vogt. It was a miraculous comeback within a more miraculous comeback.

The game plan seemed to be ahead of the Reds' hitter with a field in the area, thinking they would take it. Instead, the Reds looked for strikes early in the count and that's how Samardzija ended up losing back-to-back at home on three consecutive shots.

Some notes on this subject:

This puts Samardzija in an interesting business, of course, but rather than doing what I normally do and trying to draw conclusions from disparate comparisons, I will focus instead on what we have. Samardzija has awarded three or more circuits during a match three times in 2017, the last time that he was considered a "strong thrower of the major leagues". By ignoring for the moment all the figures we have, I think you will not agree that a measure of "solid" or "professional" involves dealing with adversity.

It would have been very easy for Samardzija to go to bed completely. Instead, he was sticking to the game plan and if he did not have a better idea of ​​his command afterwards, he would make better judgments about the location and type of terrain. The Reds were not out of balance, but he calmed down and made his shots. He always has what he needs and that is why he can always be an effective thrower of the major leagues.

But hoo boy, as long as he protested against this dead season, he is certainly the main thrower of the Giants team that has could benefit from a door opener. With today's game approaching, teams averaged .783 in their first run against him for his career, averaging .780 this season.

Still, this installation is what paved the way for this more miraculous come back. If he had continued to drop points, the Giants would not have been able to stay within striking range. Of course, you might think that the Giants are within reach, knowing that they are practically the worst offense in baseball, but a four-point deficit does not force the baseball gods to leave the stadium. They are not photographers of Getty Images.

Steven Duggar extended his streak of four-game strikes with a single in the center to break Castillo's score in Game 6. That's what put Castillo on the right path, and it's literally this little change that gave the Giants the opportunity to continue their return. Samardzija prepared the scene, Duggar's single and Stephen Vogt's four-step walk helped Buster Posey to sit down.

He did what the Reds had done in Samardzija at first: he was looking for a strike and hoped that shooting in hell would lead to a home run:

It was the second time Buster had made three home runs of the season, after a season in which he had a record of zero. He had four in 2016-2018. In fact, he has scored three home runs on two of the previous three Sundays, which may well be a strange coincidence and not necessarily demonstrate the return to a power that strikes Posey, but it's good to point out that the hero of the team is having his moments of heroes.

It's good to have a good pen too. Trevor Gott threw the 95-mph fastballs just ahead of the Reds after Buster Posey was tied, but it looked like the 4-4 draw would collapse after Gott was sidelined by two outs. .

Now I had all this setup to be a race that complained of a possible loss – let's see what happened during this non-strike call:

It was number 4 on this chart:

Or the highlighted triangle in this graphic (remember: the Brooks Baseball graphics come from the POV of the referee / receiver):

Courtesy: Brooks Baseball

Gott would need another 12 shots to get out of the inning and, just like home runs in the first inning, this could be a setup for a collapse. That was not the case because Trevor Gott has everything he needs.

Just like Reyes Moronta, who did not want to give the Reds a cheap home by feeding their flyballs with his fastball at 98 mph. It was the game plan of the Giants in the last few rounds, it was about finding a way to get rid of the bats of the Reds.

Moronta entered the game by throwing his cursor 35.5% of the time. He launched 26 shots at the end of the seventh inning, including 18 sliders (69.2%).

Meanwhile, the Reds were already playing this game plan from the start of the series, teasing hitters with tempting fastballs at the edges or outside the area (which was Posey's home) and launching brittle shots and off-speed in the area. When Brandon Crawford approached the table, they knew they were facing a wounded animal. Crawford had only three more base wins this season (all doubles) with a .510 upgrade.

Close to them, Raisel Iglesias thought that he could launch any launch at any time. He did not initiate this change where he wanted it to end, though.

Miracles do not just happen. There are always sequences that lead them. A miracle is a jump from there to here where nothing rational can explain what makes the jump possible.

It should not be possible for the Giants to hit home runs in the Great American Ballpark because 1) they are extremely bad at home strikes in general and 2) they are even worse in all aspects of the game when they play the Reds in the big American baseball stadium.

They needed the knockouts to come up with the majority of their remaining outs, then they had to forget those punches, then they had to keep that tight, and then they needed a little luck. They got everything they needed and gave us their best miracle of the season since last year.