Jung Hoo Lee, Logan Webb shine in Giants' rough walk-off loss to Rockies
The "Giants Postgame Live" crew break down San Francisco's 8-6 loss to the Colorado Rockies on Friday night at Coors Field.
Jung Hoo Lee, Logan Webb shine in Giants' rough walk-off loss to Rockies originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
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Let's talk more about that ninth inning as we get to our Daily Jackpot, brought to you by River Rock Casino, because this Rockies ball club scored five runs in the ninth, thanks in large part to two massive home runs.
It was Caleb Kilian in pitching, as we mentioned.
Jake McCarthy hits an infield single that hits off first base.
Kind of a weird one there.
Tyler Freeman hits a base hit to center.
That brings up the tying run.
They did get a fly out.
Hunter Goodman, with an 0-2 count, lays off the next two pitches and hits a three-run bomb to tie up this game, which we're gonna show you here momentarily.
And then again, it was the walk-off from Tovar that was the difference in this game.
Sean, what'd you see in this ninth inning if you wanna revisit, some of these unfortunate moments here?
Yeah, do we have to, Kylen?
Because I know, I know.
It's like, ugh- adding insult to injury here.
well, I mean, obviously the ball off the bag at first base was a very unfortunate, 'cause he made a good pitch.
You give one out, nobody on, then you can start to feel a little bit more confident about getting the job done.
But now they got a base runner on and there's nobody out.
He makes a mistake on a fastball, gives up another single.
Then he gives up a fly ball to right field, and off the bat, I thought it was gonna go out the ballpark, 'cause any ball in the air at Coors Field looks like it's gonna go out of the yard.
it was caught in right field, and then the Goodman home run on a mistake on a slider in, up and in.
In a two-strike situation, you gotta bury a slider down away or you gotta bury a fastball in on the hands of a power hitter like Goodman is.
The hanging breaking ball is the one that's gonna leave the yard a lot of times.
And then Tovar just coming off a lot of confidence in the eighth inning where he hit a home run in the eighth inning.
it wasn't a terrible pitch.
It was a breaking ball down.
unfortunately, breaking balls at Coors Field just don't have the same bite, the same depth that they do in all the other ballparks, especially in San Francisco at sea level.
you get a lot more vertical and horizontal break on those pitches.
They're harder to square up.
But the Rockies hitters know that, too, so when they see spin and the ball's up, they put good swings on it because they're used to seeing that, and Tovar did exactly just that.
Goodman obviously with the tie, but, I mean, you still at that point feel like, keep it a tie ball game- Yeah and then give yourself a chance to win the game.
But then Tovar said, "No, not so fast.
We're gonna walk it off here at Coors Field tonight."
Yeah, just absolute heartbreak for the Giants, and the sad thing is, this is not the first or second time this has happened this season.
The Giants are among the leaders in Major League Baseball in terms of the most walk-off losses this season.
You see the number on your screen.
Tied for the second most with five.
The Detroit Tigers have been walked off seven times.
Sean, what do you make of this that's here on your screen in terms of the Giants just losing in these tight game situations?
Well, I mean, it just goes back to what I was saying, that you have to have someone to be able to close a game out, someone that you can trust, someone that you can rely on when, it's a close ball game, where it's a one-run game.
Tonight it was three, but that's almost like a one-run game at Coors Field.
And you just, right now there's just nobody that's, that's down there that can do it.
We saw Matt Gage, who's been great at time, give up the walk-up homer to Ketel Marte on a breaking ball down on in.
And tonight, Hunter Goodman.
It just seems like that they're making bad pitches at inopportune times, and they're leading to losses and walk-offs.
Now, a lot of those teams on that list aren't very good teams in general.
They're at the bottom of their divisions, with the exception of the Yankees.
but, you know, when you put yourselves in those situations to win games and you don't end up winning 'em, man, it just demoralizes you, as you as a team.
Especially as bad as things have gone this year, and especially in close ball games, the Giants just haven't been able to seem to win many of those games.
and, and then you go out there in those, in those situations and, it, it, like, and I said it in the pregame show, it's the difference between expecting and hoping.
And you expect to win when you do consistently win those close games.
And Dusty Baker, who was a manager of mine for a long time with the Giants, he preached that early in spring training, said, "We gotta be good in one-run games.
That shows the true character of a team.
That shows that we're making, we're doing all the little things well.
We're pitching well late in games."
And that just builds, that builds chemistry, that builds confidence, and that leads to a lot of victories.
And right now with the Giants, it's going the opposite direction.
They don't feel like that they're gonna win in those late situations, and that's unfortunate
