Wilmer Flores Homer opening day, Heliot Ramos gives giants fans to dream
Cincinnati-did not have been a game of San Francisco Giants of the regular season for Buster Posey’s birthday. Not before being born and not during his career. Thursday’s opening day was the first beginning of a season in the history of franchise, which means that there has never been an opportunity to obtain the gift of a victory of the giants. On his first day of opening as president of the baseball operations, he obtained the birthday gift that he never knew he wanted.
After spending the first eight inning in search of being defenseless against the appetizer of Reds Hunter Greene and the three rescuers who followed, the giants returned to the ninth inning to win the open, 6-4. It took one of the best At-Pipistrelli of Heliot Ramos’s career to bring them back into play, and it took a variety of disciplined AT-Bats to keep them alive. But if you are looking for a reason to believe that this victory of the opening day was somehow more significant than a typical game of the regular season, consider that it was Wilmer Flores who hit the player of three shots at the top of the ninth.
Check it. It was a greet Wilmer Flores with the winning humerus of the game, and this is an important distinction to make. After being so forgotten that he I didn’t even make a list of forgotten players of this springIn Healthy Flores it has the opportunity to have an out -of -measure effect on what giants do this season.
After Eight consecutive seasons of being a higher average championship batter – and after the best offensive season of his career in 2023 – Flores was not even close to the same batter last season. No batter wants to apologize, but it is difficult to hit well without a functioning right knee, and Flores has undergone surgery last August with the hope of returning to full strength this season. It is difficult to go back to the full force of this:
Initially Flores had to be the short side of a first base platoon and a veteran club from the bench, but but The injury to Vierar EncarnaciĆ³n It means that he will get many more AT-BAT than expected at the beginning of the season, especially in DH. If he manages to give the giants the same production that has given teams since 2016-22, he will extend the formation and give more to the opposing launchers to think about. If he manages to give them the same production since 2023, he would have given training the possibility of playing the projections of the Prevalson, but even if it is only the normal Flores since 2016-22, he will give the giants something that have desperately lost last year.
Homer will not always get attention, but we wanted the proverbial village to make him a winning home. Greene was launching like the Platonic ideal of an appetizer of the opening day, with a quick triple amount that was locating well. Jung Hoo Lee I had never seen a quick 100 mph ball in the majorsAnd probably did not see so many in the Kbo. He saw them, they It probably wasn’t perfectly in his hands. Greene was throwing further like a jug.
“The way (Greene) was launching, it seemed that we were lucky to get a blow, let alone an escape from him,” said manager Bob Melvin after the game. “He was throwing his quick ball from everyone, and his cursor was just enough to let you out a quick ball of 100 miles per hour.”
Considering how well Greene was mixing the speed and position, it is possible that the beat from 11 types of Heliot Ramos against him in the fourth inning with the giants that follow 3-0 is the best AT-BAT of the season by anyone in the team. It is too early to give him the prize now, but it will be a serious shock if he is not at least appointed for the best AT-BAT prizes (the Babas) at the end of the year. After remaining quickly back in a count of 1-2, Ramos worked on the count and dirty five quick balls of 99 miles per hour before hitting one on the wall of the right field for a two-throw shot. He did not land in the Ohio river, but it was an oscillation that he called to mind a Wet baseball of the past.
“I am confident that I can hit the ball on the other side,” said Ramos after the game. “I won’t even lie, even the splash blow gave me a lot of confidence last year.”
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In Healthy Flores it has the opportunity to contribute important to the giants, but an all -round Ramos and that the right tunga would be one of the most precious players of the team, if not in the League.
“I worked hard throughout the low season (hitting the steed),” said Ramos. “I worked all spring. I wanted to face the righteous.”
If you are looking for reasons to read too much in a single game, the healthy knee of Flores and Ramos starting the season with a brilliant At-Bat against one of the best steed in the league will be fine.
However, it was not all good news for the offense of the giants. They hit 17 times, which was Lented for the second most in a nine inning game in the history of franchise. The only time they hit the most in a nine inning game, It happened against Sandy Koufaxwho does not really count. The inability to hit Greene was understandable, but the Bullpen Reds was even more effective for the next three inning, hitting six of the nine giants who faced and did not allow a Baserunner in the sixth, seventh and eighth inning. If Patrick Bailey had been the 17th victim of Strikeout with two outs in the ninth inning instead of identifying the game race in front of Flores’s At-Bat, all the more attention to opening would have been directed somewhere much more unpleasant.
The giants went from being in step for the worst record of the regular season in the history of the Major League to keep up for the best. The last time the giants won a game they hit every time they played on Thursday? It was in 2021 and Posey designed the walk that a ninth gathering started A victory on the street. The last time they hit a ninth race in the home of Nono Inning on the opening day? That was 2014, and It was Posey to hit the home race. Those proved quite excellent seasons e It is still legal to dream big for this season.
It’s just a game and you will forget as soon as something fun or stupid happens on Saturday. Until then, have fun appreciating the gift that the giants have made to Posey for his birthday. It was a bit a surprise, that’s fine, but it certainly wasn’t wrapped in the gift.
(Photos of Flores that affects his home race: Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press)
