Buster Posey has the day off Thursday, a day game after a night game. Manager Bruce Bochy said Posey could use a break and that there’s no need wearing out his catcher in April.
Posey generally catches Johnny Cueto, but Trevor Brown gets the call today. “When you’re catching Johnny,” Bochy said, “he knows what he wants to throw.”
Cueto is 3-0, the ninth pitcher in history to win his first three starts with the Giants. Among the group: Juan Marichal in 1960, Billy Pierce in 1962, Bill Swift in 1992 and Brad Penny in 2009.