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Cain Has Changed His Release Point

Matt Cain has featured a different release point this season and the results have been mixed.

He has a 5.43 ERA and has allowed 13 home runs in just 56.1 innings. The right-hander allowed just 21 home runs in all of last season.

Cain's strikeout and walk rates are still close to his career numbers.

Chris Quick of Bay City Ball used graphs and video to showcase the change in Cain's release point.

"From 2007-2010 Cain had a fairly consistent vertical release point," Quick writes. "He lowered it in 2011 and it remained at pretty much the same point in 2012. This year, he's dropped even further. His pitches, across the board, are coming out of a lower release point these days."

Via David Schoenfield/ESPN

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Melky Cabrera Receives World Series Ring From Giants

The San Francisco Giants presented Melky Cabrera with his World Series ring in a private 'ceremony' on Tuesday before the game against the Toronto Blue Jays.

Cabrera was suspended for 50 games for a PED violation following an excellent first half in which he was named to the All-Star Game.

Cabrera thanked the Giants and Bruce Bochy.

Via Henry Schulman/San Francisco Chronicle

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Bruce Bochy To Present Ring To Melky Cabrera

Melky Cabrera will receive his World Series championship ring when the Giants visit the Blue Jays, Cabrera's new team, on Tuesday. 

Giants manager Bruce Bochy said there were no hard feelings, and he intends to talk to Cabrera before Tuesday's series opener.

"What happened, happened," Bochy said Sunday. "And that's behind us. He's a good person, he is. He was a good teammate and I'll thank him for that."

Via ESPN.com

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Pence Felt 'Guilty' When Phillies Traded Him To Giants

San Francisco Giants outfielder Hunter Pence, playing against his former team this week, said he has regrets about how things ended with the Philadelphia Phillies last summer.

Pence struggled over the first half of the 2012 season, hitting .271 with a .784 OPS before the July trade that sent him from Philadelphia to San Francisco.

In the absence of Ryan Howard and Chase Utley, Pence admitted that he tried to do too much.

"That's 100 percent what I did," Pence said. "And in this game, I say it a lot: you can't try; you've got to trust. And I was trying to make it happen. But there was a great lesson for me in that experience, there was a letting go. there was a lot I had to learn."

Despite winning a World Series with the Giants, Pence said the transition from Philadelphia was a difficult one because he "felt guilty."

"To be honest with you, I felt really guilty," Pence said. "I felt like I did something wrong. Obviously I shouldn’t have looked at it that way, it was the wrong way to look at it. But I was, there was a lot of excitement to be put into this race. But I was heavily invested in bringing the Phillies back, and it felt like… I felt guilty. I felt like it was my fault that it fell apart."

Via Ryan Lawrence/Philadelphia Daily News

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Giants Get First Pinch-Hit Walk-Off HR Since 2000

Guillermo Quiroz hit a pinch-hit, walk-off home run for the San Francisco Giants against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday, the team's first in a long time.

Armando Rios was the last player to accomplish the feat for the Giants. He did so on July 18, 2000.

Quiroz had not played since April 24 and never had a walk-off hit in the Majors.

Via Willie Bans/MLB.com

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