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The Tuesday Brisbee article on the Giants monthly stats of interest demonstrated how the team has way cut down on its strikeouts since April. Last night, in bottom of 9th Matos and Schmitt both drew walks around a Bailey single before Pederson drew a game winning walk himself.

What has turned the free swinging Giants into strike zone savants? It sure seems to me you have to give credit to the coaching staff because it is team-wide. They only struck out 6 times last night, and that was after 5/6 batters whiffed over the first 2 innings. They drew 5 walks. On Monday they drew 7, 3 Sunday, 6, Sat, and 8 on Friday. The Giants have only struck out 10 times in first two games of Padres series.

And another 35k attendance night to cheer ANOTHER late inning comeback victory!

Both Kapler and FZ emphasized the need to make more contact early on this season.  Hitters appear to have made two strike adjustments.

One thing that has been important to me since day one is scoring w/o HRs.  The Giants have improved significantly on that score: 

April 26 Games. 46 HRs  126 runs
May. 29- 30 and 131
June 18- 17-108

[lex24]

The Tuesday Brisbee article on the Giants monthly stats of interest demonstrated how the team has way cut down on its strikeouts since April. Last night, in bottom of 9th Matos and Schmitt both drew walks around a Bailey single before Pederson drew a game winning walk himself.

What has turned the free swinging Giants into strike zone savants? It sure seems to me you have to give credit to the coaching staff because it is team-wide. They only struck out 6 times last night, and that was after 5/6 batters whiffed over the first 2 innings. They drew 5 walks. On Monday they drew 7, 3 Sunday, 6, Sat, and 8 on Friday. The Giants have only struck out 10 times in first two games of Padres series.

And another 35k attendance night to cheer ANOTHER late inning comeback victory!

Both Kapler and FZ emphasized the need to make more contact early on this season.  Hitters appear to have made two strike adjustments.

One thing that has been important to me since day one is scoring w/o HRs.  The Giants have improved significantly on that score: 

April 26 Games. 46 HRs  126 runs
May. 29- 30 and 131
June 18- 17-108