by Michael Duca

Giants update: The Giants are performing up to their own expectations but above other teams right now. Gregor Blanco on Wednesday stole three bases and scored three runs to help the Giants in their 10-4 laugher over the Braves. Blanco had been hitting .150 all season.

The Giants seem to hit good pitching better than they hit bad pitching, and not that the Braves pitcher Mike Minor is not a bad pitcher but he came away with a 4.24 ERA and shut the Giants out on Tuesday. Then you get the Braves pitcher Julio Teheran whose ERA is 2.20 on Wednesday.

Teheran got lit up on Wednesday and threw for 40 pitches in the first innning and Blanco walked and stole two bases and came home and wound up stealing a third base later in the game and that set the tone. They were going to be as miserably hot and still as energy sapping as it was yesterday the Giants had the plan to be patient, and grinding it out their at bats they just didn’t impose their will on the Braves on Wednesday.

The Giants have beaten the Braves five out six games this year and the Giants can gaurantee that when the season is over nobody would have done that.

A’s update: The White Sox won their first game at the Colisuem on Wednesday for the first time since 2012. The Sox complied a seven game loss streak against the A’s in Coliseum visits but ended it with a 4-2 win. The Sox Jose Abreu has been making big contact with the ball of late and hit out his 15th to help beat the A’s.

The Sox brought this kid out of Cuba and their are 29 other teams that are seeing Abreu and wondering “why didn’t we go get this guy?” He already in the short span of a month and half has 15 home runs. Abreu loves hittting at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago because it’s a hitters ball park.

The way the Sox won in Oakland on Wednesday was not cheap it was a three run shot and Abreu hit it up the staircase in left field and help give the Sox a two run win. Abreu has just shown that there is really no adjustment period for him in the show. He learned how Major League pitchers are going to pitch him, Abreu has not scuffled or struggled at all at the plate he’s now hitting .271.

Michael Duca covers the A’s and Giants for http://www.sportsradioservice.com