![]() But we haven’t really talked about it, just we know what’s in front of us.Giants 2023 Depth Chart - Offense Position “Like kind of looking at each other, just like little things like that. “We’ve given each other a couple fist bumps,” Webb said. As such, their rivalry - which seems to focus around the pitchers’ hitting prowesses (or lack thereof) - has been put aside. The two pitchers know that their performance will be at the heart of the Giants’ season continuing or ending Thursday. If the Giants win, they could go with Gausman (depending on how long he pitches) or Alex Wood.īut there won’t be a Game 1 if there isn’t a Game 5 win, so the Giants’ two aces will see action Thursday. Should the Dodgers win Thursday, Scherzer would be their Game 1 starter in the NLCS on Saturday. “But I’ve been known to change my mind, so we’ll see… we’ll see. “Right now I will say he’s unavailable,” Roberts said after Game 4. If he were to pitch, he’d do so on two days’ rest, putting his effectiveness and possible longevity into question. SF Giants assign top prospect back to Triple-A, making room for ‘golden nugget’ĭodgers manager Dave Roberts said after Game 4 that Max Scherzer, who pitched Game 3, would not be available for Game 5. The trump card for the Giants? There’s no secret ace in waiting for the Dodgers to follow Urias. These teams didn’t win 109 games this season on talent alone. Like the Giants going with two aces, this is some fascinating strategy from the Dodgers. If they choose the latter, they’ll deplete their bench in the first few innings of the game by substituting in the right-hand-heavy lineup when Urias enters the game. By starting with a righty for an inning or two, the Giants either have to put themselves in disadvantageous situations to start the game, or counter with lefties. San Francisco was keen to stack their Game 5 lineup with righties to attack Urias. The concept of opening with Knebel and then going to Urias is that it puts the Giants on the backfoot when it comes to their lineup. Lefty Julio Urias - who won Game 2 - was set to start Thursday, but the Dodgers will instead open the game with reliever - and righty - Corey Knebel. Needing a win Tuesday, they used ace Walker Buehler on three days rest. It’s also the stuff that creates playoff legends. I don’t care how impressive the Dodgers’ lineup is - that’s intimidating. The Giants’ three best pitchers, back-to-back-to-back. There will never be a starter-as-reliever moment that matches Madison Bumgarner in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series, but anything that Gausman can do to rightly invoke comparisons will be well received, given the shakiness of the Giants’ bullpen in this series. In an ideal world for the Giants, Webb goes deep to open Game 5, hands it off to Gausman for a few innings, and he gives the ball to closer Camilo Doval. ![]() With everything on the line and Gausman having four days rest thanks to two travel days in this series, the Giants’ righty is rested and available out of the bullpen Thursday. He wasn’t stellar in that contest - a Giants’ loss - but there were moments where his stuff looked excellent. Gausman, who had a 2.81 ERA in 192 innings this season and will certainly receive Cy Young votes, was relegated to Game 2. ![]() That earned him a start in a critical Game 162 and his performance in that contest made him a shoo-in for starting Game 1. ![]() Webb won the job - he was one of baseball’s truly elite pitchers over the last few months. Both have carried the team as the squad’s best pitcher for stretches this season and the final weeks of the season were effectively auditions to be the team’s playoff-opener starter. Webb and Kevin Gausman have a light-hearted rivalry in the Giants’ clubhouse. Taylor Swift-themed SF Giants game brings out all the hits ![]()
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