Not only has the Panama-born veteran continued to excel defensively, but he’s put on a show offensively that no one saw coming. Another two hits in Sunday’s swan song before the break lifted Ruiz back up to .350, a mark he’s pretty much steadily maintained since mid-May.

We don’t need to tell you how substandard a performance that is from a position teams expect to produce plenty of bop.

Pierre’s become a must-own NL-only league option, and is gaining plenty of traction as a mixed league option.

While he was hitless Friday, he still managed to draw a walk for the fourth straight game and steal a base for the second straight game, taking him up to 26 walks and 14 steals on the season.

The National League has shown some progress in recent seasons against the American League in Interleague play, but that all collapsed once again this year.

The streaky and not exactly fleet of foot outfielder launched his first ever inside the park dinger Friday. Assuming he’s not still out of breath, maybe this will spark Bruce to go on one of his patented runs. He has driven in runs in four straight games despite the fact that the inside the parker is his only hit over this stretch. Bruce got off to a great start, struggled in May, and has somewhat rebounded in June thanks mostly to the whopping 10 walks he’s already drawn this month.

On Wednesday night against the Houston Astros, Cain’s excellence finally manifested itself in something that will catapult him into the public eye – he tossed the 22nd perfect game in MLB history and the first in the long life of the Giants’ franchise.