Looking at Stone Garrett’s stats for the year, you wonder why he wasn’t called up earlier. But a closer look saw a hitter struggling a bit since the start of August. You’d certainly not notice it with how he’s attacked some really good Giants pitchers the last two games, but in 14 August games, he had a .196/.222/.412 slash line across 51 AB’s. Nitpicking? Maybe, but for an organization that called him up, maybe that slump threw some caution in the wind to Stone’s sails. We’ll never know why they took so long to give him a chance while many others had multiple opportunities, but the club is happy he’s up and proving everyone wrong.
Diamondbacks 5, Giants 0 - Shut ‘em out
