numerology for Bruce Bochy

10/23/2012                07:17:59 PM PDT

Dodgers manager Don Mattingly saw this coming a month ago.

Mattingly, the captain of a sinking ship, looked across the field at the Giants dugout when the Dodgers visited AT&T Park in September. The Giants had withstood season-ending injuries to Brian Wilson and Freddy Sanchez, Melky Cabrera’s suspension and the Dodgers’ string of blockbuster deals.

And the resilient group was running away with the division.

“I don’t think I ever expected them to stop performing the way they are because I’ve known Bruce Bochy for a long time,” Mattingly said. “I know that the Giants are basically just going to keep coming at you. That’s just typical Bruce Bochy.

“His teams are resilient. They never quit.”

The never-say-die Giants are now champions of the National League and hosts of Wednesday’s Game 1 of the World Series against the Detroit Tigers.

During a run that has included a record-tying six elimination-game victories, the Giants have seemingly taken their cues from Hunter Pence, who gives raucous pregame speeches. But the Reverend Pence would like to let you in on a clubhouse secret.

“It actually starts at the top,” Pence said. “There’s a unique, relaxed and encouraging feeling that starts with Bochy. He’s always calm, and that keeps us calm.”

It wasn’t always easy for Bochy to stay calm this season. The Giants were put through the wringer, starting with Wilson’s elbow surgery in April.  On 15, the Giants dealt with a bigger crisis when Cabrera, their All-Star No. 3 hitter, was suspended 50 games. Bochy met with the team, and long before players starting coming up with postseason mottos, he delivered one of his own: “Focus forward.”

“As I’ve said many times,” Bochy said. “It’s not that it happens, it’s how you deal with it.”

Bochy has been dealing the same way for years, 18 of them, to be exact. Nearly two decades of managing will fill a resume, and Bochy has. He ranks third among active managers with 1,454 wins and is tied for 14th all-time with six playoff appearances. A World Series win this season would be his second in three tries, giving the former catcher with a .239 career average a reasonable argument to be a Hall of Famer.

Bochy won’t be the one making the case.

“It’s great when you hear good things,” Bochy said. “The players would feel the same, but you can’t believe all the good things or the bad things.”

In quiet moments, Bochy concedes that he knows the criticisms, mainly that he can be too loyal with veterans. But on one of the closest teams in recent Giants memory, the manager’s loyalty is fiercely appreciated.

Tested by Tim Lincecum’s surprising first-half slump, Bochy continually insisted that “this is still our guy.” When Ryan Vogelsong slumped in August, Bochy ran the same play. “He’s one of our guys,” Bochy said after Vogelsong gave up seven runs in 31/3 in mid-September. “I have all the confidence in the world in him.”

That meant the world to the right-hander who traveled to Japan and Venezuela to resurrect his career.

“I’ve been on other side of this, where you’re not hearing that,” Vogelsong said. “He had my back, and it wasn’t just publicly. After every start he would come and say: ‘You’re right there. Your stuff is good. You’re on the brink of figuring it out.’ That means a lot.”

The manager’s meetings were plentiful, and not just with veterans. When Brandon Crawford made a slew of errors in the season’s opening weeks and struggled at the plate, Bochy called the 25-year-old shortstop into his office. The message was simple: Forget about your at-bats.

“He told me ‘You’re our shortstop. Just worry about playing good defense and you’re going to be in the lineup every day,’ ” said Crawford, who recovered in the field and has been a postseason threat at the plate.

The message was a bit more complicated for the other young infielder. Brandon Belt hit .186 in July and went 1 for 20 on a road trip through Atlanta and Philadelphia that ended with Belt admitting that he was struggling with confidence.

Bochy gave Belt a couple days off to catch his breath.

“That helped tremendously,” said Belt, who soon caught fire. “I needed to gather my thoughts, and he knew that.”

Bochy isn’t just pushing the right buttons off the field. He managed with urgency throughout the season, whether that meant using seven relief pitchers to get through three innings of an 8-3 September win over the Rockies, or using Romo to secure the final out of a 9-0 win in Game 7 of the NLCS.

In the first two rounds of the postseason, Bochy was continually a batter ahead of Cincinnati’s Dusty Baker and St. Louis’ Mike Matheny, both of whom left their winner-take-all starters in a touch too long.

The quick postseason thinking, first displayed during the 2010 championship run, doesn’t surprise Bochy’s players, who have found their 57-year-old manager to be adaptive off the field.

Bochy is a wine connoisseur and accompanies his wife to Broadway plays when the team visits New York, but he has little trouble identifying with players in an eclectic clubhouse that features a right fielder (Pence) who rides a scooter to the park, an injured pitcher (Wilson) who wears reflective shoes and a shutdown closer (Sergio Romo) who has piercings in his ears and a signature “That’s what’s up!” motto.

“He lets us be ourselves and do our thing,” Romo said. “He’s not judgmental at all. He had a lot of patience with us this season, which we needed.

“He let us come together as a team.”

from:  http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_21839887/san-francisco-giants-resilience-starts-manager-bruce-bochy

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Bruce Bochy was born on April 16th, 1955 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bochy

April 16th, 1955

April 16th

4 + 16 +2+0+1+2 = 25 = his personal year = Rooting for the underdog.

 

25 year + 10 (October) = 35 = his personal month = Hanging in there.  Not giving up.

 

35 month + 30 (30th of the month) = 65 = his personal day = On top of the world.

 

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numerology for Matt Cain

June 13, 2012                 10:39 p.m.

Matt Cain pitched the 22nd perfect game in major league history and first for the Giants, striking out a career-high 14 and getting help from two spectacular catches to beat the Houston Astros 10-0 on Wednesday night.

Cain’s 125-pitch masterpiece for San Francisco featured a pair of great plays by his corner outfielders. He got pinch-hitter Jason Castro on a grounder to third for his 27th and final out with the sellout crowd of 42,298 roaring.

It was the fifth no-hitter in the majors already this year and second perfect game. At a ballpark where Barry Bonds made home run history, Cain produced the signature moment for pitchers.

Left fielder Melky Cabrera chased down Chris Snyder’s one-out flyball in the sixth, scurrying back to make a leaping catch at the wall. Cain raised both arms and slapped his glove in delight when Cabrera made the play.

Then, right fielder Gregor Blanco ran into deep right-center to make a diving catch on the warning track and rob Jordan Schafer for the first out of the seventh. The 27-year-old pitcher hugged Blanco in the dugout after the inning.

“Those were unbelievable catches,” Cain said. “I mean that right there, that changes the whole thing.”

Phillip Humber of the Chicago White Sox tossed the majors’ last perfecto at Seattle on April 21. This is the second time in three years there have been two perfect games in the same season — before that, the only other time it happened was in 1880.

Cain (8-2) accomplished a feat even Hall of Famers Gaylord Perry and Juan Marichal couldn’t with this storied franchise.

Not since 1917 have there been five no-hitters in a season by mid-June. The only year that came close was 1990, when Fernando Valenzuela and Dave Stewart each pitched no-hitters on June 29 — the fourth and fifth of the season.

This year, Johan Santana tossed the New York Mets’ first no-hitter on June 1 and six Seattle pitchers shut down the Los Angeles Dodgers last Friday. Jered Weaver had one for the Los Angeles Angels on May 2.

The Astros were no-hit for the fifth time and first since Carlos Zambrano did so for the Cubs on Sept. 14, 2008.

The Giants made a big commitment to Cain this spring, locking him up for a long haul — and he showed exactly why general manager Brian Sabean has vowed to keep his talented pitchers. In a week when the city’s attention turned to golf and the U.S. Open, Cain delivered his most impressive gem yet in his 216th career start.

The 125 pitches were the most ever thrown in a perfect game.

The two-time All-Star who had long been the Giants starter who endured a lack of run support already was rewarded with a new $127.5 million, six-year contract in early April before the season started. This certainly meant as much or more to the homegrown pitcher.

Cain threw 86 of his pitches for strikes, faced just four full counts and still clocked 90 mph in the ninth. Cain followed up Madison Bumgarner’s 12-strikeout gem in Tuesday night’s 6-3 win.

It was the first no-hitter since departed left-hander Jonathan Sanchez pitched the Giants’ last one on July 10, 2009, against the Padres at AT&T Park.

The Astros were no-hit by the Giants for the second time. Marichal did it on June 15, 1963.

Ted Barrett became the first umpire to work behind the plate for two perfect games. He also worked David Cone’s 1999 perfecto.

Catcher Buster Posey rushed the mound as Cain raised his arm. His teammates jumped the dugout rail as the final out was made, a moment reminiscent of that improbable World Series championship in 2010 at Texas.

“I can’t thank Buster enough,” Cain said. “I didn’t even question once what he was calling.”

Cain’s wife, Chelsea, fought tears when shown in the stands as the celebration began, then made her way to the dugout for a congratulatory hug and kiss.

Cain had come close already this season — not once, but twice. In his second start of the year, in the team’s home opener April 13, he one-hit the Pirates in a 5-0 win, then allowed only two hits over nine innings in the Giants’ 11-inning, 1-0 win over Cliff Lee and the Phillies.

The Giants produced their first back-to-back 10-strikeout performances by one pitcher since 1978. On May 17, 1978, Vida Blue fanned 11 against the Cubs, then after an off day, John Montefusco struck out 10 at Los Angeles.

Cabrera, Brandon Belt and Blanco all hit two-run homers and the Giants produced an offensive outburst rarely seen at home this season and rarely seen on nights Cain has pitched.

On this night, he threw nine of his initial 11 pitches for strikes, commanding his repertoire with a dazzling fastball.

Cain, who hit one drive into McCovey Cove alongside U.S. Open golfer Dustin Johnson before the game to show off one of his other favorite pastimes, sat by himself in the dugout between innings.

from:  http://www.latimes.com/sports/lat-sp-matt-cain-perfect-game-20120614,0,4635824.story

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Matt Cain was born on October 1st, 1984 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cain

October 1st, 1984

10 + 1 +1+9+8+4 = 33 = his life lesson = Putting on a good show.

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