San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said that starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner told him he “had 140 pitches” in him prior to Saturday’s game against the Rockies.
38-year-old Erik Kratz was behind the plate for the Giants Friday with Buster Posey out for a scheduled day off. He caught all 18-innings in a game that tied a record for most amount of innings played in one game at (now) Oracle Park.
It’s over. No, really, it’s over. After 18 innings of baseball which seemed like they may never reach a conclusion, the San Francisco Giants have beaten the Colorado Rockies 3-2 on a walk-off fielder’s choice.
Like Andy Dufresne raising his arms to the heaven as rains pour down on his free body, recently escaped from Shawshank, so too do the Warriors exit the regular season.
This week Tom is at Oracle Park’s very own Public House. Though the bar and restaurant has it’s own inventory of noteworthy beers Tom decided to bring his own.