Casali catches 5th straight shutout, Giants beat Marlins
Giants catcher Curt Casali caught his fifth consecutive shutout, guiding Aaron Sanchez and four relievers in San Francisco s 3-0 win over the Miami Marlins on Thursday night.
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SAN FRANCISCO It means so much to Curt Casali that he can provide Buster Posey a much-needed break behind the plate and Giants pitchers don t miss a beat with the backup.
Casali caught his fifth consecutive shutout, guiding Aaron Sanchez and four relievers in San Francisco s 3-0 win over the Miami Marlins on Thursday night.
“Five in a row, it’s pretty sweet,” a grinning Casali said.
He topped out at 98.9 mph and threw a slider that led to three outs in his 16 pitch outing. Matt Wisler, Tyler Rogers and Jake McGee closed out the game to record the team’s fifth shutout of the season.
Casali historic night
Giants catcher Curt Casali collects his fifth consecutive shutout.
Casali is filling in for resting catcher Buster Posey. He became the fifth catcher since 2015 to backstop a shutout in five straight starts with five different starting pitchers.
Curt Casali has now caught a shutout in each of his last 5 starts for the @SFGiants.
He s the 5th catcher in modern MLB history (since 1900) to catch a shutout in 5 or more consecutive starts, and the first to do it with 5 different starting pitchers (h/t @EliasSports). pic.twitter.com/9yCIgZvxVF
SnakeBytes 4/23: Series Sweep
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“Any win is a good win,” manager Torey Lovullo said after a 14-11 slugfest victory in 10 innings gave the Diamondbacks their first three-game sweep of the season. “I don’t think it was the way we drew it up from a pitching standpoint, but our guys did enough to execute and win a ballgame.”
Peralta finished the day with seven RBIs after going 5-for-6 at the plate only a double shy of the cycle and scoring two runs. “To have a day like that is a big victory for me,” Peralta said via Zoom postgame. “I’ve been putting in a lot of hard work at the plate trying to be better and today was the day. I’m just going to keep doing it, keep working consistently on that and that was a great sweep for us.”
April 9, 2021
The mystery pitcher began appearing in my morning box scores during the second half of September 1980. Sometimes he was Valenzuela, others Valenzla, but every time I looked, he had zeroes next to his name. I couldn’t find him in my baseball card set, my
Street & Smith’s Official Yearbook 1980, or my
Complete Handbook of Baseball 1980. All I knew was that suddenly he was one of the Dodgers’ most reliable relievers, a rookie thrown into the fire of a three-way NL West race between the Dodgers, Astros, and Reds.
What I didn’t know was that just over six months later, everybody who was anybody would know the name Fernando Valenzuela and the trail of zeroes he left in his wake. Fernandomania was coming.