The Giants troubles have coincided with the loss of Pablo Sandoval.
Giants Since All-Star Break
With SandovalWithout
SandovalGames118Record9-21-7Avg.271.204Runs Game5.22.4Slug.428.272 Sandoval last played July 24th
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GiantsRockies Season Series
SFCOLWins32Runs2626Hits4747HR52Starter's ERA3.314.62
Ryan Vogelsong leads the Majors in ERAMLB ERA Leaders
Ryan VogelsongSF2.22Jordan ZimmermannWSH2.28Jered WeaverLAA2.29Johnny CuetoCIN2.52Chris SaleCHW2.61 Last Giants Pitcher to Lead Majors in ERA:
Bill Swift in 1992 (2.08)
Ryan Vogelsong has made 16 straight quality starts, 1 off the San Francisco record:
Most Consecutive Quality StartsSan Francisco History
Gaylord Perry1967-6817Ryan Vogelsong201216Juan Marichal196315Tim Lincecum2007-0815Atlee Hammaker1982-8314
The last pitcher overall to throw more that 16 straight quality starts in a row was Felix Hernandez who threw 17 straight in 2010.
Most Quality Starts This Season
Jordan ZimmermannWSH19Ryan VogelsongSF18Yovani GallardoMIL17C.J. WilsonLAA17
Ryan Vogelsong has only allowed 1 1st inning run this season:
Lowest Opp Avg in 1st inning
Ryan VogelsongSF.115R.A. DickeyNYM.116Jordan ZimmermannWSH.153Jeff SamardzjiaCHC.157Gio GonzalezWSH.164
Ryan VogelsongLast 2 Seasons vs Rockies
Games6Starts5Record4-0IP Runs354ERA1.03Opp Avg.144Home Runs3 3 of the 4 runs allowed to Rockies on Solo HRs
San Francisco Giants
Hunter Pence has struggled with left-handed pitching this season:
Hunter Pencevs Left-Handed Pitching
AVGHRSlug2009.2946.5462010.2926.4822011.3178.5902012.2374.423
On the other hand Melky Cabrera & Buster Posey are killing lefties this season:
Highest Avg vs Left-Handed Pitchers
Andrew McCutchenPIT.447Melky CabreraSF.410Buster PoseySF.404Paul GoldschmidtAZ.385David FreeseSTL.375 Buster PoseySince All-Star Break
MLB RankGames17
AVG.4381stHR4
Doubles7
RBI19t-3rdSlug.7345thOPS1.2202nd
Jonathan Sanchez has been awful this season. After winning his first start of the year for the Royals, Sanchez has lost 8 straight decisions in 13 starts including both starts with the Rockies.
Jonathan SanchezThis Season (KC & COL)
Starts14Record1-8ERA8.32Opp Avg.317Walks50Strikeouts44 Highest ERA in a SeasonMin 14 Starts
Steve BlassPIT19739.85Sean BergmanMIN20009.66Andy LarkinFLA19989.64Todd Van PoppelOAKDET19969.06Mark ClarkTEX19998.60Kyle DaviesATL20068.38Jonathan SanchezKCCOL20128.32
For the Rockies, their breakout-star has been 23-year old, rookie shortstop Josh Rutledge. Rutledge was the Rockies 2010 3rd round draft choice out of Alabama and was called up from AA during the All-Star Break
Josh RutledgeCalled up July 13th
Games18AVG.375HR5Doubles6Triples2RBI14Slug.722OPS1.109 .306 Avg, 13 HR this season at Tulsa-AA
Josh Rutledge on Thursday night became only the second rookie shortstop in major-league history to hit a home run in each of four straight team games. The other was Kurt Abbott for the 1994 Marlins.
Carlos GonzalezSince 2010
HomeRoadGames190177AVG.363.271HR5525RBI18595Slug.673.448 Leads Majors