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Giants turn to Ross Stripling in bid to sweep Phillies
After losing three consecutive games to the Arizona Diamondbacks, the San Francisco Giants are now on the verge of a three-game series sweep against the Philadelphia Phillies
The teams will play the series finale on Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco.
After taking the series opener 6-3 on Monday, the Giants received three hits and an RBI from Michael Conforto in a 4-3 win on Tuesday. Conforto is 5-for-7 in the two wins over the Phillies, and he is 11-for-25 (.440) with four homers and eight RBIs in his past seven games
LaMonte Wade Jr. also had two hits and an RBI for San Francisco on Tuesday, and Blake Sabol contributed two hits.
“Resilient. We always bounce back strong,” Wade said in a postgame interview on NBC Sports Bay Area. “Positive vibes. Don’t get too high. Don’t get too low. We just come out here trying to play a clean game and play clean baseball and take it one day at a time.”
Four Giants relievers — Taylor Rogers, John Brebbia, Tyler Rogers and Camilo Doval — combined to allow just one run in 5 2/3 effective innings
Doval has earned saves in back-to-back games against the Phillies
The Giants will hand the ball to Ross Stripling (0-2, 7.14 ERA) on Wednesday
In Stripling’s latest start, on Friday against the Diamondbacks, he lasted only 3 1/3 innings and gave up five hits and four runs.
“Biggest challenge for Strip now is command,” Giants manager Gabe Kapler said. “Balls are in the middle of the plate. … Strip’s as tough as they come. He’s a really, really tenacious guy and he’s going to get through this.
Stripling is 2-0 with a 4.81 ERA in 10 career games (seven starts) against the Phillies
The Phillies will look to avoid a fourth consecutive loss immediately following a five-game winning streak
Kyle Schwarber hit a solo home run in the ninth inning on Tuesday, and J.T. Realmuto added two hits and two stolen bases. Kody Clemens also had two hits. Realmuto is 11-for-27 (.407) over the past eight games to raise his average to .299.
However, the Phillies went 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position, leaving them 1-for-33 in those situations over the past three games, all losses
The Phillies left 12 runners on base on Tuesday
“We talk about it. We don’t harp on it,” Phillies manager Rob Thomson said. “It can make it worse. The tide will turn. It always does.
The Phillies accumulated 10 hits and six walks but struggled through another frustrating defeat
“We talked to the guys about it,” Thomson said of scuffling with runners in scoring position. “Don’t try to do too much. Move the line. We’re just going through one of those times right now.”
Philadelphia slugger Bryce Harper finished 1-for-4 with a walk and two strikeouts. He called his strikeout leading off the ninth inning “embarrassing.”
“You’ve got to stay within yourselves and do your job,” Harper said of himself and his teammates.
Taijuan Walker (3-2, 5.75 ERA) is scheduled to start for the Phillies
Walker, who signed a four-year, $72 million deal in the offseason, allowed seven hits and three runs in six-plus innings during his most recent start, on Friday against the Colorado Rockies.
In seven career starts against the Giants, Walker is 3-3 with a 3.70 ERA
–Field Level Media
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‘Everyone is building’: Why foreign founders are crossing oceans for San Francisco
Saad advises companies from his home office, with its views of the San Francisco Bay and SoMa, itself a neighborhood in recovery.
He coaches entrepreneurs in Europe, Australia, and across the U.S. on how to adopt “Silicon Valley thinking” in scaling their businesses. That means encouraging clients to visit, if not move to, the Bay Area. “If you want to maximize your probabilities,” Saad regularly tells founders, “hang out where all the capital is, where all the builders are, where the future is.”
For some clients, Saad has become a Silicon Valley “Sherpa,” navigating their move across oceans, he said. “They know there is some magic here they need to tap into.”
Martes picked up on that energy as soon as he arrived last month from Colombia. “You come here and see autonomous cars driving around the city, and you think, ‘Am I thinking big enough?’” he said.
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Former San Francisco Giants Slugger Signs Deal With Chicago White Sox
When former top prospect Heliot Ramos finally emerged for the San Francisco Giants this year, their outfield became fairly crowded during the season and when looking ahead towards the future.
Despite Jung Hoo Lee being sidelined with a shoulder injury that ended his rookie campaign, the everyday addition of Ramos alongside Michael Conforto, Mike Yastrzemski, Austin Slater and a rotating cast of minor leaguers because of injuries created a logjam.
Because of that, the Giants decided to ship Slater out to the Cincinnati Reds on July 7 in exchange for pitcher Alex Young.
That ended his eight-and-a-half-year tenure in San Francisco after he was taken in the eighth round of the 2014 MLB draft before becoming a top prospect ahead of his Major League debut in 2017.
But despite a few good seasons during his time with the Giants, namely in 2020 with a 151 OPS+ and in 2022 with a 121 OPS+ across his 125 games, they viewed him as expendable and shipped him out of town.
Slater’s tenure with the Reds was short, only playing in eight games before they sent him to the Baltimore Orioles ahead of the trade deadline.
Upon the season ending, the veteran outfielder elected to hit free agency, and according to Jon Heyman of The New York Post, he has now signed a Major League deal with the Chicago White Sox, although the terms have not been revealed.
The White Sox are coming off a historically poor campaign last year, so with them looking to turn the corner by getting established MLB talent into the mix, there’s a chance Slater gets a good amount of playing time.
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