2009 San Francisco Giants

[Scottdau]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

Pretty much. The Reds are taking it too us! Though that Ump screwed us!

[baseball66]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

ugh, this doesn't bode well for the rest of the weekend with the bullpen being used up tonite.

[Scottdau]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

WOW!

[remix]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

5 errors? demote the giants to AAA.

[baseball66]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

the boys will need a stiff shot of whiskey after this game, lol, thankfully they have an afternoon game tomorrow so they won't have long to think about this and i'm with kruk and kuip it had to be the full moon, lol.

[Scottdau]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

This ump is pissing me off!

[Scottdau]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

5 errors? demote the giants to AAA.

I know that was bad!

[baseball66]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

not only did we play crappy on the field we screwed up off the field as i see the giants brain trust activated aurillia and demoted bowker, good grief

[Blzer]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

don't think i've ever seen a ball leave the yard so fast LOL

Not to be the pompous *** that I often am, but as fast as it may appeared, his ball went off the bat at 106.9 MPH. The fastest this year is Pujols (who else?) at 119.6 MPH. Between the two there are 812 other home runs with speeds that went off the bat faster than Velez's was hit.

Of course, that's all atmospherics. Since it was right down the line it probably went out empirically faster than others, but velocity-wise it was nothing to write home about.

This isn't to take away from Velez's power; I just wanted to statistically rank his home run to the rest of the season's home runs mostly because I have nothing better to do right now.

Though here's a fun fact: the fastest velocity off the bat for a home run since 2005 was by David Ortiz (in 2005 as well), who hit a 457 foot shot 122.5 MPH off the bat of Scot Shields' fastball at Fenway Park.

Another fun tidbit: here's an AT&T Park home run that left right field's arcade faster than Velez's home run:

You should remember this one




Okay, history lesson over.

[Blzer]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

Wow, Velez just did it again.

[remix]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

Molina is aliveee!

[Scottdau]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

Yep, the funny thing is Zito should be 12 and 6 this year. He has actually been pitching great too. He had some bad games, but for the most part he has been very solid. And I think E.V. has arrived!

[buttsakk]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

Guyz...

Please tell me what got into Velez!?!

He is nothing short of Blazing hot as of late! @_@

[Scottdau]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

I think he is starting to figure it out. I could wrong. But he does have a lot of power believe it or not. So maybe he will be a force too.

[Blzer]

Re: 2009 San Francisco Giants

I think he is starting to figure it out. I could wrong. But he does have a lot of power believe it or not. So maybe he will be a force too.

Eh, I'll call it 'bat speed' (great derivation of power production nonetheless). When he hits his first opposite field home run we can consider his real source of power, but I really like what I'm seeing as of late.