The Giants' pitching quieted down the Twins' offense, so hopefully the hot streak is over. It would also be nice to continue the streak of avoiding consecutive home losses.
I don't blame Dillard for this. It's not his fault that he is a ROOGY. It's not his fault that Braun can't catch a routine fly ball. He's actually locating his pitches well today.
I think it was the hip strain again. But he winced in pain after that swing and looked flustered/upset on the bench after it. So my first impression is that he made it at lease as bad as it was after the Sox game. I guess we will find out later.
Bad call at 1B, but I'll take the pickoff. Edit: The Rays broadcast has shown the replay about 1,000 times now...yep, he was safe...ok still safe...safe from that angle as well...back to the first angle again--safe...
Fielder hit a weak bouncer right to the 2B bag. Braun was running on the pitch and arrived at the same time as the ball was fielded. It was an easy tag since he wasn't sliding, then the throw to 1st beat Fielder by about 3 steps. I think it would have been a DP either way.
A fun stat to calculate would be the percentage of times through the order that at least one of the 1-4 hitters scores a run or records an RBI. It is probably close to 50% if not more.