Sean Roby Leading Historic HR Pace and Other Things We Learned About the Giants' Farm This Weekend

SF Giants Minor Lines, July 1-3, 2022

Happy 4th of July everyone! I hope you all have plans for a celebratory day of love, laughter, food, and baseball with family and friends!

It’s the fifth anniversary of a notorious incident in Eugene Emeralds’ history, when a 20-inning game forced the team to shoot off their planned fireworks after 1:00 in the morning — to copious complaints from the community. It’s also, of course, the biggest tentpole in the baseball season — a time when the season is really coming into its shape.

So today, I’m going to tweak my normal Monday format a bit. Instead of doing a full roundup of the weekend’s games, I’ll highlight some bigger picture “lessons learned” from the last three days. Don’t worry — I’ll still include the line scores and links to all the games from the weekend, so you can dig into the minutiae if you’d like, but today’s post will pull back and see if we can focus on larger trends.

Presenting: Three (or More!) Things We Learned From Each Full-Season Affiliate This Weekend!

Rest assured, we will talk about this guy….

Richmond Flying Squirrels @GoSquirrels

GONE 💥 @juniorroby8 smashes a solo home run to extend the lead to 10-1 in the 4th That’s Sean Roby’s 20th homer of the year, tying him with @davidavillar for the most in a season in franchise history

…and this guy….

Eugene Emeralds @EugeneEmeralds

VAUN. BROWN.

…as well as many, many more!

Let’s get things started:

HITTER of the Weekend: Casey Schmitt (Eug) 5 for 12, 2 HR (14), 4 R, 3 RBI, 3 BB, 3 K
PITCHER of the Weekend: Kyle Harrison (Rich), 5.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 7 K