We had records falling, power pitching dominating, and an almost literal recreation of this classic Bugs Bunny baseball moment:
It was a wild — and mostly successful — night of baseball around the Giants’ universe. So let’s get up and get after it!
HITTER of the NIGHT: Matt Beaty (Sac) 4 for 4, 2 2b (2), 2 R, 3 RBI, 2 HBP
PITCHER of the NIGHT: Kai-Wei Teng (Rich): 4.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 10 K
Before we get to the games though, yesterday, I sent all of you an invitation to join me in a space that Substack is calling “Notes.” It’s a new function in Substack that allows people to hang out, share thoughts, photos, gifs, quips, maybe stuff that doesn’t go in my newsletter. This is the function that has essentially caused Twitter to wage war against Substack, stopping us from embedding tweets in posts (which has been a bear to work around!) and working to deprioritize any Substack links on twitter.
So if you’re a twitter user who has been looking for somewhere else to go, hopefully Notes is going to turn into that. It’s just getting up and running, and they’re still working things out, but I expect it to develop into a community with some time. I’ll try to be on there and drop some nuggets from time to time. You can get to Notes by going to Substack.com/notes or looking for the Notes icon in your Substack app — which looks like this:
For those of you who are interested, I’ll see you there! For the rest of you, let’s just get to the Minor Lines….
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