Eric Haase's grand slam provides offensive boost in Giants' win over Brewers
The "Giants Postgame Live" crew breaks down Eric Haase's grand slam against the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday at American Family Fields.
Eric Haase's grand slam provides offensive boost in Giants' win over Brewers originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
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To our Toyota Play of the Game, because what else would we go with?
There were a lot of really good hits in this game, but we have to zero in on the seventh inning.
Bases loaded, no outs, Eric Haase, grand salami.
What a swing here.
That was a great swing.
Stayed up the middle of the field, and like you said, the ball was carrying to all fields today.
Mm-hmm.
You had the home run early in the game to left, the home run to right, and then this off the bat of Eric Haase to dead center.
his third grand slam of his career, and as you see right there, the fifth one for the Giants.
And what w- since when?
In May, what?
May 17th.
May 17th.
Yeah.
May 17th.
Yeah.
That, that's not that long ago.
That's five grand slams in the last, three weeks.
Yeah, less than a month, which is pretty wild.
Sean, I wanna ask about the Giants' offense as a whole too, because something we've seen over the course of the season is a little bit feast or famine.
Like, I think the grand slam stat is interesting.
When we're not averaging that many runs per game, like, what is it?
How do they get more balance and consistency?
Why do we see some of these games where they suddenly put up these huge ballooning numbers?
I, I wish I had the answer for that.
I have no idea.
That's why you make the big bucks.
Hey, it's- Come on, now.
Well, I mean, I, I'll just l- chalk it up as, it, it's, it's been contagious hitting, right?
I mean- Yeah when someone gets going, I mean, Casey Schmitt led the game off with a home run that, just scraped the wall, fortunately it wasn't caught, and then the, then the offense just kinda, like, continued from there.
I mean- Yeah you do have some guys that are swinging the bat extremely well right now that we're gonna obviously get into later- Mm-hmm in the show.
That helps, that you have balance from top to bottom right now.
You have Casey Schmitt leading off the game with a home run.
You have Arraez who's a hitting machine.
Yeah.
You have Jung Hoo Lee that's as hot as anybody in, oh, anybody in the major, everybody in the major leagues.
Yeah, yeah.
Literally.
and then you have Matt Chapman, who's down at the seven hole now.
Mm-hmm.
and in those bottom three hitters, there was a note coming into the game that the bottom three hitters just in this series alone came into the game nine for 22.
Today, now, today they had fi- six more hits.
Now they're 15 for 36.
So, your seven, eight, nine hitters are 416 in this series alone.
Mm-hmm.
So, when you have some de- when you have some balance in the lineup from top to bottom like that, you have the ability to put up these big na- these big, numbers.
They had one inning with three runs, another inning with three runs, and then they blew it open with the, the six run seventh.
Yep.
You batted around twice today.
Almost did it three times in those three innings.
So, yeah, when, it, it seems like when it comes, it comes fast, and, and- Fast and furious it's good for us because we have a lot to talk about, and a lot to unpack in this one.
