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SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 2014 GAME NOTES 24 Willie Mays Plaza •San Francisco, CA 94107 •Phone: 415-972-2000 sfgiants.com •sfgigantes.com •sfgiantspressbox.com •@SFGiants •@los_gigantes• @SFG_Stats SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS (78-64) AT DETROIT TIGERS (77-65) RHP Tim Hudson (9-9, 3.08) vs. LHP Kyle Lobstein (0-0, 3.18) Game #143/Road Game 72 • Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014 • Comerica Park • 5:07 p.m. (PT) • ESPN UPCOMING PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE: • Monday, Sept. 8: OFF DAY AT HOME • Tuesday, Sept. 9 vs. Arizona (7:15): LHP Wade Miley (7-10, 4.18) vs. RHP Yusmeiro Petit (4-3, 3.89) - CSN Bay Area • Wednesday, Sept. 10 vs. Arizona (7:15): RHP Josh Collmenter (10-7, 3.81) vs. RHP Ryan Vogelsong (8-10, 4.06) - CSN Bay Area • Thursday, Sept. 11 vs. Arizona (12:45): RHP Randall Delgado (3-3, 5.40) vs. RHP Jake Peavy (4-4, 2.36) - CSN Bay Area Please note all games broadcast on KNBR 680 AM (English radio). All home games and road games in LA, SD and OAK broadcast on 860 AM ESPN Deportes (Spanish radio). TONIGHT'S GAME GIANTS ON THIS ROAD TRIP AT GIANTS BY THE NUMBERS • The Giants have taken the ! rst two games of this series COLORADO AND DETROIT against the Tigers and have won eight of nine against Games . 5 NOTE 2014 Detroit overall, including six straight dating to the start of Record . 3-2 Current Standing in NL West: . .2nd the 2012 World Series. Average . .353 (64x193) Series Record: . 25-17-3 Avg. w/RISP. ..373 (22x59) Runs Per Game . 7.2 (36) Series Record, home: . 13-8-3 GOING FOR THE SWEEP Home Runs . 5 Series Record, road: . 12-9-0 • The Giants look to sweep the Tigers for just the second Stolen Bases . 1 Series Openers: . 22-23 time in the regular season, having last done so June 6-8, Series Finales: . .27-17 ERA . .5.98 (29er, 43.2ip) Sweeps by Giants: . 5 2003 at AT&T Park...since Interleague Play began in 1997, Starters W-L . 2-1 Sweeps by Opponent: . 6 the Giants have never swept an AL opponent on the road Starters ERA . .7.62 (22er, 26.0ip) Relievers W-L . 1-1 Most Games Over .500 . 21, June 8 in a series of three-or-more games...in fact, the Giants have Relievers ERA . 3.57 (7er, 17.2ip) Most Games Under .500 . 0 won just three consecutive games in an American League Saves/Chances . 1/2 Current Streak: . W2 ballpark just twice in the same season since 1997, doing Longest Win Streak .6 (2x), last: Aug. 26-31 so from June 14-30, 1997 (@ANA, @SEA) and from June 15-17, 2005 (@MIN, @DET). Longest Losing Stk . 6 (2x), last: July 24-29 Last Road Trip: . .3-3 (@CHC, WSH) SAN FRANCISCO'S WINNING WAYS Last Homestand: . 6-1 (COL, MIL) • The Giants, who are 14 games over .500, have won nine of their last 11 games and 12 of Last Five Games: . 3-2 Last 10 Games: . 8-2 their last 17. Home Record:. 38-33 Road Record: . 40-31 IN THE STANDINGS Day Record: . .34-22 • The Giants enter play today just 2.0 games behind the ! rst-place Dodgers in the NL West, Night Record: . 44-42 the club's smallest de! cit since Aug. 6...SF hasn't been 1.0 game back of the Dodgers since vs. NL West: . 30-27 Aug. 4...the Giants are a season-high 4.0 games ahead of the Brewers for the top NL Wild vs. NL Central: . .16-16 Card spot. vs. NL East: . .22-12 vs. American League: . 10-9 TONIGHT'S STARTER - TIM HUDSON vs. RH starters: . 53-38 vs. LH starters: . 25-26 • After a 7-2 start with a 1.81 ERA (18er, 89.1ip) through June 12, RHP Tim Hudson has Giants Score First: . 56-16 gone 2-7 with a 4.43 ERA (41er, 83.1ip) in his last 14 starts...he's gone just 1-3 with a 6.65 Opp. Score First: . .22-48 ERA (17er, 23.0ip) against the AL...Hudson hasn't faced Detroit since 2004, but is 9-2 with Leading After 6: . 57-6 a 3.07 ERA (34er, 99.2ip) in 14 starts against them. Trailing After 6: . .13-50 Tied After 6: . 8-8 FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1902 Leading After 7: . 63-6 • LHP Madison Bumgarner , who has 199 strikeouts this season, failed to record his 200th Trailing After 7: . 7-55 strikeout yesterday as he defeated the Tigers while scattering 10 hits in 6.0 innings with Tied After 7: . 8-3 no walks and no strikeouts...according to Elias , no pitcher had failed to strike out a batter Leading After 8: . 66-3 Trailing After 8: . 5-56 in a start of at least 5.0 innings after entering that game with a season total of strikeouts as Tied After 8: . 7-5 high as Bumgarner's since Vic Willis of the 1902 Boston Braves (214 Ks) on Sept. 27, 1902. Extra-Inning Games: . 8-4 One-run Games: . 16-21 GIANT OFFENSE - BEST SINCE BREAK GIANTS OFFENSE - PRE/POST ALL- Two-run Games: . 20-13 • The Giants' o" ense has been the best in baseball since STAR BREAK (MLB RANK) Giants Score 5 or more: . 52-6 the All-Star break, ranking ! rst in runs per game, team Pre Post Giants Score 4 or more: . .65-13 batting average and team batting average with runners Runs/Game 3.91 (22) 4.78 (1) Giants Score 3 or less: . 13-51 in scoring position, while ranking second in team OPS. Team BA .243 (25) .280 (1) Giants Score 2 or less: . 4-44 Team OPS .688 (24) .746 (2) Opp. Scores 5 or more: . 11-38 Team BA w/RISP .236 (25) .321 (1) chart courtesy of STATS, Inc. Opp. Scores 4 or more: . 24-45 HUNTER PENCE'S HIT STREAK REACHES 18 Opp. Scores 3 or less: . .54-19 • OF Hunter Pence has hit safely in a season-high 18 Opp. Scores 2 or less: . .44-12 consecutive games, the longest by a Giants player this year and the longest active streak Giants No Errors: . 45-35 in the Majors...it's also Pence's longest hit streak since a career-best 23-game hit streak Giants Make Error(s): . 33-29 with Houston in 2011...Pence has hit .384 (28-for-73) with 18 runs, three 2Bs, 3B, three HRs Giants Outhit Opp.: . 56-14 and 15 RBI during the streak. Opp. Outhits Giants: . .17-45 Come-From-Behind Wins: . 33 WITH THE BATS C-F-B Wins (trailing by 3+): . 9 • SF is batting .340 (127x373) in their last 10 games while averaging 7.5 runs per game. C-F-B Wins (trailing by 4+): . 5 C-F-B Wins (trailing by 5+): . 2 Blown Leads . 22 POSEY AT THE PLATE Largest Blown Lead . .5, Aug. 24 • C Buster Posey has gone 33-for-65 (.508) with 19 runs scored, seven home runs and 21 RBI Giants hit 0 HR: . 22-40 over his past 15 contests...14 of his 33 hits have gone for extra bases (6 doubles, triple)... Giants hit at least 1 HR: . 56-23 beginning Aug. 21, Posey leads baseball in hits (33), runs (19), home runs (7), extra base Giants hit 2+ HRs: . 24-5 hits (14) and RBI (21). THIS DATE IN GIANTS HISTORY Sept. 7, 1977 - Willie McCovey doubled JUST 20 GAMES LEFT o" Mario Soto for his 2,000th hit and • The Giants have 20 games remaining on their regular season schedule, with 10 on the belted his 489th home run in a 6-3 road and 10 at home...beginning Tuesday, all of the Giants' 20 remaining games will come victory over Cincinnati. against the NL West (D-Backs, Dodgers and Padres), a division in which SF has gone 30-27 against...the average winning percentage of the Giants' opponents is .491. World Champions (7): 1905, 1921, 1922, 1933, 1954, 2010, 2012 NL Pennants (20): 1904, 1905, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1917, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1951, 1954, 1962, 1989, 2002, 2010, 2012 NL West Titles (8): 1971, 1987, 1989, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2010, 2012 GIANTS MEDIA NOTES TODAY'S STARTING PITCHER - RHP TIM HUDSON PAGE 2 RHP TIM HUDSON HUDSON’S 2014 STARTS Date OPP DEC SCORE IP H R ER BB SO HR #P Breakdown W-L ERA G IP H R ER BB SO 4/2 @ARI W W, 2-0 7.2 3 0 0 0 7 0 103 2014 San Francisco 9-9 3.08 27 172.2 171 69 59 30 111 4/8 ARI W W, 7-3 8.0 7 3 2 0 4 0 101 Career (16th season) 214-120 3.42 454 2986.1 2795 1240 1136 876 2007 4/13 COL -- W, 5-4 7.1 5 4 4 0 5 2 85 2014 at AT&T Park 5-4 3.38 13 88.0 83 37 33 17 62 4/19 @SD L L, 1-3 7.0 8 2 2 0 4 0 93 Career at AT&T Park 8-7 3.54 21 140.0 133 62 55 31 90 4/25 CLE W W, 5-1 7.0 4 1 1 2 5 0 98 2014 on Road 4-5 2.76 14 84.2 88 32 26 13 49 4/30 SD W W, 3-2 8.2 5 2 2 0 6 1 89 Career on Road 101-69 3.74 223 1415.1 1402 639 588 431 894 April (6 starts) 4-1 2.17 45.2 32 12 11 2 31 3 569 5/6 @PIT L L, 1-2 8.2 5 2 1 1 5 0 108 2014 SEASON 5/11 @LA -- W, 7-4 6.0 8 2 2 1 2 1 78 • Hudson, who was named to his fourth career All-Star team this season, is 5/22 @ COL -- W, 4-2 3.0 5 1 1 2 1 0 64 slated to make his 28th start of the year...39-year-old has gone 9-9 with 5/27 CHC W W, 4-0 7.0 6 0 0 0 5 0 96 May (4 starts) 1-1 1.46 24.2 24 5 4 4 13 1 346 a 3.08 ERA and one complete game in 27 starts...SF has gone 17-10 in his 6/1 @STL W W, 8-0 7.0 3 0 0 2 6 0 101 outings, winning three of his last four.