The Dodgers are the one seed, no calculations needed there. Two: the Braves lost to the Marlins, but I doubt they will lose the NL East at this time. It looks like Atlanta has the two seed wrapped up. St. Louis is at three, New York at four. Our Friars at five, Phillies at six, unless...the Phillies make up a game on us. In that case, there would be a tiebreaker, which the Phillies would win. The question at this time is where we will be booking our tickets, to New York or St. Louis. As it stands now, we head to New York.
In last night's game, we scored all of our runs in the eighth, the Giants all of theirs in the ninth thanks to a meltdown by Tim Hill, which actually required Hader saving it for us in the end. Musgrove hurled six shutout innings, so he is getting ready for the postseason. What bothers me is that, again, we were shut out for the first seven innings. The Giants opened with John Brebbia, a bullpen journeyman who pitched one shutout inning. Next came Sean Hjelle (Lord, the Giants' pitchers have some weird names), who had a seven plus ERA entering this game. Of course he shut out the Padres for five innings, striking out eight in the process.
Brandon Drury was one-for-two with two walks, which is good to see. Drury has had a .295 OBP since joining the Padres, which is atrocious. If we keep penciling him in at the three or four spot, he will have to take pitches. If you have an OBP under .300, pitchers drool. They know you're an out machine and that the percentages are with the pitchers. A .300 OBP is a liability to the team, I don't care how many homers you hit.
I keep reading on the forum that our fans want Wil Myers to be re-signed. Please, no. We already got rid of one underachieving first baseman (Hoz), let's just finish the job. There is absolutely nothing Wil Myers has done that would make me miss him.
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