Giants pitching prospects pound the zone in intrasquad game
Giants pitching prospects pound the zone in intrasquad game
The former Giants center fielder had just won his first game as a professional manager, defeating Team Shawon Dunston 3-0 in a three-inning intrasquad game featuring prospects.
[...] by definition after an intrasquad game, the Giants are 1-1.
Real manager Bruce Bochy enjoys the annual intrasquad game, held the day before the Cactus League opener.
Bochy particularly enjoyed watching pitchers Chase Johnson, Tyler Beede, Sam Coonrod, Jake Smith, Ray Black and Tyler Beede, because they faced a combined 24 batters and issued just one walk, by Black.
An MRI on Hunter Pence's right Achilles tendon revealed inflammation, as the medical staff expected.
Brandon Belt, Joe Panik and Buster Posey will be the three regulars who start for the Giants in Wednesday's Cactus League opener against the Angels.
Bochy wanted Posey in the opener so he can catch new batterymate Jeff Samardzima, who is expected to pitch an inning or two.
Gorkys Hernandez, a 28-year-old whose big-league experience consists of 334 at-bats with the Pirates and Marlins, is expected to get a long look because he can play center field. . . .