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8/3 Gamethread: Giants at Diamondbacks

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San Francisco Giants v Arizona Diamondbacks
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Johnny Cueto vs. Madison Bumgarner

The San Francisco Giants are hoping to build on a wild series opener win on Monday, though I think they’d be happy to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks in more convincing fashion tonight.

To do that they’ll have to score runs on one of their franchise legends, Madison Bumgarner. It’s only the second time the Giants will have faced Bumgarner since he left the organization after the 2019 season, and it’s the first time with fans in attendance. It won’t be the Oracle Park fans, but Phoenix tends to draw a fair number of Giants fans.

It’s not like Diamondbacks fans want to go to games right now, after all.

Game #107

Who: San Francisco Giants (67-39) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (33-74)
Where: Chase Field, Pheonix, Arizona
When: 6:40 p.m. PT
Regional broadcast: NBC Sports Bay Area (available on fuboTV)
National broadcast: None
Radio: KNBR 680 AM/104.5 FM

Lineups

Sadly we will not get to see Buster Posey take his first at-bat against Bumgarner. Mike Yastrzemski also gets a day off. So does Brandon Crawford? Interesting.

  1. RF — Austin Slater (R) — .230/.306/.392 — 89 OPS+
  2. LF — Kris Bryant (R) — .266/.358/.506 — 133 OPS+
  3. 1B — Darin Ruf (R) — .280/.397/.571 — 160 OPS+
  4. 3B — Wilmer Flores (R) — .251/.330/.451 — 111 OPS+
  5. 2B — Donovan Solano (R) — .274/.329/.371 — 91 OPS+
  6. SS — Thairo Estrada (R) — .333/.403/.493 — 143 OPS+
  7. CF — Steven Duggar (L) — .279/.353/.462 — 120 OPS+
  8. C — Curt Casali (R) — .216/.323/.381 — 91 OPS+
  9. RHP — Johnny Cueto — 3.84 ERA, 3.91 FIP, 82 K and 19 BB in 93.2 IP

And the snakes.

  1. 2B — Josh VanMeter (L) — .207/.302/.373 — 82 OPS+
  2. 3B — Asdrubal Cabrera (S) — .249/.344/.406 — 102 OPS+
  3. RF — Kole Calhoun (L) — .238/.292/.362 — 76 OPS+
  4. C — Carson Kelly (R) — .248/.378/.435 — 120 OPS+
  5. LF — David Peralta (L) — .249/.323/.392 — 92 OPS+
  6. 1B — Christian Walker (R) — .230/.288/.344 — 71 OPS+
  7. CF — Daulton Varsho (L) — .211/.322/.382 — 90 OPS+
  8. SS — Nick Ahmed (R) — .218/.279/.319 — 62 OPS+
  9. LHP — Madison Bumgarner — 4.87 ERA, 4.20 FIP, 73 K and 20 BB in 77.2 IP

Enjoy the baseball, friends.