The Giants keep winning in some way at Coors Field

From 1995 through 2020, the Giants have won 2,105 games. Only eight teams have won or had a better winning percentage. During this period, the Giants hired Barry Bonds and made four World Series championships, winning three of them. They finished with the best record in baseball in one of those seasons, and won 100 games in another. They were always competitive for many of those years, and they usually had more going for them than the average team. However, there was a major exception.

From 1995 through 2020, the Giants have a winning percentage of . 427 at Coors Stadium, which equals 93 team losses. Names, faces, and details are stuck in your head like scenes from a horrific horror movie. Navy Perez. Ryan Spielburgs. Nolan Arenado goes on tour on Father’s Day. Danger tries to distract the pitcher from behind the plate. Team Linkcom Get Suspiciously dribble baseballs and return them. The Giants had 10 seasons with a team ERA of 6.00 or worse at Coors. Every trip has been a disaster, and all you can hope for is that it won’t be Do not forget disaster. Just a garden variety disaster, please. The bar is set so low that PG&E made you call 800 before you even started looking for it. The only good news is that there was a treaty of sorts, with the Rocky Mountains being worse in Oracle Park.

The Giants defeated the Rockies on Thursday 6-4, with another late comeback sending them to a three-game sweep. This time it was Michael Conforto’s sixth home run, two walks to start the top of the ninth, Brandon Crawford with one of the sweetest swings of the year on a double and a key fly sack off LaMonte Wade Jr.. to take the lead. It was a different cast the night before, which suited a team with an unbalanced parts ratio like the Giants.

It was the Giants’ 11th straight win over the Rockies and their eighth straight win at Coors Field. They are 17-5 in the Coors since the start of 2021, and have won more games there over the past three seasons than they have in the first seven seasons the stadium has been open.

My fear is that we are teaching an entire generation of baseball fans not to be afraid of Coors Field. This is a whole generation of fans who don’t spit on the floor and make the sign of the cross when they hear the name “Spilborghs.” It may get to the point where they see a dumpster enter the game to protect a small lead And I feel optimistic about that.

So what is going on here? How and why are the Giants suddenly happy to play in Corus Field?

You press the button like “Danger!” contestant and yells, “The Rockies are a bad baseball team.” You’re not wrong, but I don’t think that’s the whole story. They’ve had lousy teams before. In 2003, they finished 74-88, while the Giants went to the wire and won 100 games. It doesn’t matter. They still beat the giants in coors. Team Rocky can have a lousy team And Be awesome to play Coors. They lost 94 games last season, but are over . 500 at home. They’ve lost 87 games in 2021, but still have a . 593 home winning percentage. Since the stadium opened, they have the sixth-lowest winning percentage in baseball, but have the 11th-best home winning percentage.

But for my money, the series’ magic number was four. As in, the Giants allowed only four runs in each of the three games, and the Bulls only allowed four runs in the Series. Not bad, especially considering one of the games was a bullpen. Alex Cobb had a tough outing, but it was the two pals who carried him.

Coors’ bullpen success isn’t just a blip for the series, either. Here’s the Giants bullpen for every season in ballpark history, with the difference in ERA between Coors games and total season numbers.

We’re talking small samples when it comes to Coors’ attenuator numbers, so don’t read too much into this. It’s not like the 2005 Giants had the most challengers in franchise history; They just happened to have a good showing that season. (Armando Benitez only allowed one run that year!)

But none of the nine seasons the Giants have been really better at the Coors, three of them coming in the past three seasons. The fact that 2019 has crept up there has me checking to see if the Dodgers bullpen was similarly successful at the Coors while Farhan Zaidi was there, and if he just blasted the “SECRET COORS BULLPEN PLAN” on his way out the door. no luck. Dodgers relievers in general have been much worse on Courses Field.

Because that’s the way things are supposed to work, see.

I looked at Pitches the Giants have thrown at Kors over the past three seasons and compare it with The pitches they threw are everywhere else. no luck. The plan of attack looked the same, regardless of the field. Keep it out of the middle of the strike zone, dummy, and try to get batters to chase them down with two strikes. The pitch types seem to be about the same as well. When the Giants have had an 0-2 tailback hitter in the Coors over the past three seasons, they’ve thrown a fastball about a third of the time, a catcher about a third of the time and “another” for the remaining third. This is about the same breakdown as it is elsewhere, and it’s the same with the other charges as well. Coors has no secret business plan.

The motion of pitches thrown by Giants relievers varies between Coors and other ballparks, as you would expect from the air. Pointing out the difference is one thing, claiming that it is the cause is another. The Giants get more movement off the Rockies than the Coors, but we’re talking about half an inch. Probably nothing.

Then two theories:

• Sample volume. Don’t rest. The patch is coming.

• The Giants have a unique set of relievers that fit better in Coors’ field than their peers.

There might be a thing to the latter. Camilo Duval bowled 102, thin air or not. Tyler Rogers plays like an MC Escher lithographer, and his success is less about how big he breaks and more about the slyness and discomfort of the dough. The wide variety of deliveries, looks, and pitch shapes in a Giants game is as important to their collegiate effectiveness as it is to the quality and ugliness of their pitches. Also, Duvall threw 102, and has thrown more pitches for the Coors than anyone else in the Giants’ Bulls over the past three seasons other than Tyler Rogers. i know that I It can go up to 102, but the Rockies seem to have a hard time with it.

The Giants relievers have been so reliably and consistently successful over the past three seasons that it doesn’t have to be a stop or a fluke.

My money is still in bad shape or luck. Let me slip in another theory though: 2021 was around the time the Rockies stopped getting caught up in the “analytics” department, for the most part. These hitters aren’t as prepared as they used to be, and you know the Giants stuff their iPads with all sorts of goodies. The Rockies have a new front office, but the owners are the ones who sign the checks, and I haven’t heard them sign more of them, especially for a new stable of nerds.

Either way, enjoy it while it lasts. The Giants block runs and protect the leads in Denver, which isn’t supposed to happen. They make it their home away from home. There has been a lot that has happened in the world over the past decade, but if you travel back in time to meet your former self, this may be the most believable part of the future. Giants thrive in Coors Stadium. What a strange time we live in.

(Top photo by Brandon Crawford and Cerro Estrada: Isaiah J. Downing / USA Today)