Larry Brown Sports
Brown Bag it, Baby
Mike Muchlinski didn’t exactly have the most pleasant Thursday afternoon. Muchlinski was umpiring home plate in the ninth inning of the Oakland Athletics-Minnesota Twins game when A’s catcher Stephen Vogt, who was setting up outside, got …
San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy used five different pitchers to unsuccessfully attempt to navigate the 9th inning against the Chicago Cubs Tuesday. Notably, a man who served as his closer for much of the season was not one of them. Santiago …
San Francisco Giants closer Santiago Casilla has blown three saves already this season, and manager Bruce Bochy was not about to give him a chance to blow a fourth on Thursday night. When Casilla got himself into another 9th-inning jam, Bochy pulled …
Like most other relief pitchers, Santiago Casilla has had very few at-bats during his career. On Thursday night, the San Francisco Giants righthander experienced the fifth plate appearance of his career and first since 2012. The Giants probably wish …
Santiago Casilla is a relief pitcher. A relief pitcher for the Giants who prior to Sunday, never batted in MLB. That fact was pretty evident when he stepped to the plate in the top of the 9th inning against the Marlins in their series finale. To say …
