Baseball

The San Francisco Giants are the winningest team in baseball with 57 wins and only 33 losses and are top of their division with a 6.5 game lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Which seemed almost impossible back at the start of May when they were 17 and 18. Since then they have gone 40 and 15 easily the best record in baseball. So how did they do it?  Partly because their starting pitching has been first class. Madison Bumgarner and Johnny Cueto their first two starters combine for 23 wins and only 5 losses. Jeff Samardzija has a solid record of 8 wins and 5 losses. Jake Peavy started out the season horribly but locked and and has an ERA less than 2.00 in his last seven starts. With Matt Cain on the DL, Bruce Bochy resorted to his long reliever Suarez for some quality starts and that’s exactly what he got. He finished his starts with 3 wins and 0 losses, A great record. The Giants have been without Joe Panick, Hunter Pence and Matt Duffy for ages but somehow they keep winning. Every single Giants player is coming up big when need be. Grant Green, Jarret Parker, Rubén Tejada, and Conor Gillespie are all in their first proper season with the Giants and they have all come up big at some point.