- Position
- RF
- Number
- #51
- Age
- 28
- Pieces here
- 9
On the record
Called Shots →San Francisco finishes the 2026 regular season with 80 or more stolen bases.
Written about him
The Giants cannot lose 100 games. Their floor is one game better than 1985.
San Francisco is 63-89 with ten games to play, so the worst record it can finish with is 63-99 and a second hundred-loss season is off the table. The league's year-by-year record for this franchise runs 144 seasons and contains exactly one hundred-loss year: 1985, at 62-100. The distance between that team and this year's floor is one game. Four seasons in the 144 have a worse winning percentage than a 63-99 finish, three of them played in New York. Across the 69 seasons the Giants have played in San Francisco, the best available outcome, winning all ten, is 73-89 and the eleventh-worst season in that span; losing seven of the ten produces 66-96, which is the 1984 club's record exactly. Tuesday's nine starters were Cox, Eldridge, Gilbert, Lee, Basabe, Hill, Cavanaugh, McCray and Koss. Turner Hill drove in three on a single, a groundout and the first home run of his major league life. Seven of the ten runs scored without a home run. Rafael Devers had core-muscle surgery in Philadelphia the same day. One take filed.
The Giants Have Stolen 68, 68 And 69 Bases In Three Seasons, And Buster Posey Has Spent Two Of Them Asking For More
San Francisco has stolen 69 bases in 147 games this season, after 68 in 162 games in 2025 and 68 in 162 games in 2024. Buster Posey, the club's president of baseball operations, told Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle this week that he has added running to the pitching and defense he has emphasized since taking the job, and that he has spent two years wanting that tone set. The season number is not what changed. The split inside it is: 27 steals in the first 85 games at a 69.2 percent success rate, then 42 in the next 62 at 80.8 percent. Since July 1 the Giants have stolen bases at 0.677 per game against a league rate of 0.668 over the same span, which ranks them twelfth of thirty after finishing 29th in each of the two previous seasons. Of the four Giants with nine or more steals, Luis Arraez was traded to Philadelphia on August 3 and Casey Schmitt is on the 60-day injured list with a torn meniscus. Jung Hoo Lee stole none in his first 56 games and twelve in his next 78. Fifty-eight major league players have stolen fifteen bases this season and no Giant has stolen more than twelve. Two takes filed.
Cesar Perdomo Gave Up Three Singles And A Walk In His First Major League Start
Cesar Perdomo made his first major league start at Citi Field on September 6, five days after his major league debut, and pitched six scoreless innings against the New York Mets. He faced twenty batters, allowed three singles and one walk, struck out four and threw 83 pitches, 48 of them for strikes. No New York runner reached second base against him. Joel Kuhnel pitched a scoreless seventh. Carson Seymour then allowed four earned runs on sixteen pitches in the eighth, on a solo home run by Brett Baty and a three-run home run by Bo Bichette, and San Francisco lost 4-2 in front of 29,410. The Giants scored both their runs in the fourth on a Jung Hoo Lee single and finished with five hits and twelve strikeouts. Perdomo is the thirteenth different pitcher to start a game for San Francisco in 2026, which resolves an open Andie Townsend call filed August 21, and his start resolves a Grant Lombard call filed September 2. Perdomo's career major league line is now ten innings, six hits, one earned run, two walks and eight strikeouts. His 2026 was worse at every stop before this: a 3.98 earned run average at Double-A Richmond and a 5.10 mark with twenty walks at Triple-A Sacramento. He has thrown 130 innings this year against a previous career high of 127 and a third. Two takes filed.
