Alex Dickerson made his giant debut in the middle of the 2019 season, a year in which Buster Posey rushed back from hip surgery and struggled to get close to his old production on the plate. Dickerson became an everyday player for the Giants in 2020, when Posey selected a month before the start of the season.
Dickerson had never played with the All-Star version of the franchise, but he had been in the North West long enough to know what to look for. Dickerson made his San Diego Padres debut in 2015, about ten months after Posey won his third World Series, and when he saw Dosee Day watching Posey swing in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Dickerson felt a familiar feeling.
“I had to see him when he was at his best, and he’s right there,” Dickerson said at a video conference Tuesday after the Giants’ 10-7 win over the Phillies. “He didn’t really miss a partner.”
Posey had two homers on a night when the Giants hit five while surprising the Phillies. The last two – three-pointer shots by Dickerson and Wilmer Flores – erased by two runs in the eighth deficit. Tommy La Stella also added a two-homer early on, his first as a giant, but it was Posey’s swings that stood out.
The Giants took Posey in the first round in 2008 and a year later drafted a long right-hand man named Zack Wheeler. For a few years, it looked like the two would lead the franchise together for the next decade, but Wheeler was concerned about the New York Mets after Posey was injured in 2011. It seems Posey has never forgotten what Wheeler’s stuff looks like. however.
Posey jumped on a move in the fifth inning and struck a 428-foot blast to the left center. After a turn, he pushed up a fast ball of 98 km / h and somehow hit it in the seats to the left for his first multi-homer game since 2016. It was Posey’s first homer on a pitch of 98 km / h in six years, and according to Inside Edge, in the last three seasons he has become only the third player to be on a field that was 98-plus and also up-and-coming.
“He comes on the stands, honestly, I don’t see a lot of people coming,” Dickerson said. “Zack Wheeler is about as good as it gets in MLB and he took him twice deep, so I would say Buster is back.”
Perhaps you can say the same about the whole offense that struggled most of April. The ten runs were a season highlight and they were perfectly established. The Giants have yet to get much off their pitch, but Logan Webb has allowed four runs in four overs. The Phillies added two more to Jarlin Garcia, but the Giants never panicked.
Dickerson credited the staff members for being ‘incredible so far’ and for picking up all the sleepers, but the set-up was finally ready to carry all the cargo Tuesday. The five-homer night was the first in two seasons under manager Gabe Kapler, who insisted all month that an outbreak would come.
“I think it’s more the kind of offense we are,” Kapler said.
The Giants were confident in the group last year, and they felt it would be a real force this season as one of the best appointments in the National League. Kapler mentioned Tuesday that although you felt about the success during the 60-game season, you can not deny that the lineup will be better with Posey backs and La Stella in the mix.
Both were strongly involved on Tuesday, along with the usual mix of good clubs.
Darin Ruf’s run twice in the fifth series ensured that it would not be a mistake to hand over the game to the bull, and it set up La Stella’s homer. Flores came off the bench three innings later for his first time as a giant.
“We know what we’re capable of,” Flores said. “Our offense has not been there so far, but we are going to wake up. It’s a good win tonight. ‘
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