April 2010

Lincecum is MLB’s best pitcher (my opinion)

 Howdy! Happy Lincecum day to my fellow SF Giant fans! ;) The Giants have been playing exceptionally well especially in this homestand against two tough NL teams, the Cards (whom the Giants beat 2 out of 3 last weekend, and they are about to sweep the Phillies today. I think they have a great chance since Tim Lincecum is on the mound. He is 4.0 and his ERA is 1.00, hopefully he’ll totally forget about last years game against Pedro Martinez. Hopefully he won’t give up any runs so his era can be under 1 after today’s game.  He’s competing with Jimenez from Colorado who is 5-0 with an era 0.79.  Overall the Giants have been a success this year mostly pitching wise.  They need offense help but lately they’ve been scoring more runs like they should be doing.  It looks like Nate Schierholtz has won the right field spot, John Bowker hasn’t been hitting well like they thought he was.  I like Bowker, i hope he can at least stay on the squad for pitch hitting, etc.  I think he may go down to Fresno after Rowand returns. Me and a thousand other people want to bring up Buster Posey.  I hope he comes up on June 1st, i think that is after the arbitration deal.  I am not sure i need someone to help me understand that part. lol I think he can do a lot for the team offensively & he had a great spring training and is tearing it up in Fresno.  Its almost time for the Giants vs Phillies game! later.. 

Giants vs Dodgers weekend

 This weekend was the classic rivalry match up between the Dodgers & Giants.  It was a pretty good series, especially Saturday’s game.
 Friday night, the Dodgers were all over Wellemeyer but the game started to get exciting at the end when the Giants started to rally and Velez hit a 3 run homerun in the 9th inning making it 10-8 L.A. I had thought Wellemeyer was going to be a little better than he has been, he had a good spring training except for that one game against the A’s.  Hopefully he can turn it around for his next start in San Diego. 
    Saturday, Tim Lincecum was the star of the game with 3 hits and 3 rbi’s & allowed 4 hits,  7 K’s in 6 IP. The Giants mostly Lincecum hit the ball all over the place against Heager, its pretty sad thats LA’s number 2 starter. Since Timmy didn’t give up any runs, his era is below zero at 0.90 A much better start than he had at the beginning of last season. 9-0 Giants
 Sunday was good up until the 8th inning, it was a great pitching match up between Kershaw vs ZIto., no runs were scored till the top of the 7th with Uribe’s homerun, Zito had a great outing  , 7 1/3 IP and 3 K’s. In the bottom of the 8th the Dodgers have Rameriz pitch hit for the pitching spot, Zito walks Anderson then Bochy brings in Romo, who than gives up a two run hr to Manny. My heart just dropped! what the heck, the Giants scored all their runs yesterday so i guess they we’re out of gas. I was afraid 1-0 wasn’t going to be enough.
 On Saturday Rockies pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez threw  the first ever no hitter in Rockies history against the Braves. The only teams left are the Rays, Mets & Padres who haven’t thrown a no-hitter.  Its hard to believe the Mets haven’t because they’ve been around forever! Anyhow in St Louis, the Mets VS Cardinals didn’t score any runs till the 19th inning which i think is insane, It wasn’t on tv here but i cant imagine sitting that long for a ball game, it was indeed frustrating for Cardinal fans, since they’re obviously better than the Mets. I was surprised they didn’t suspend the game because of the new rules a few years ago?? I think the longest game ever was the Brewers and the Chicago White Sox in 1984 they went 25 innings. Anyhow I am gonna watch the game on espn, hopefully it won’t be as long & the Cards actually win. :)     Til next time! Im gonna try and post after every Giants game like i said i was gonna do !
 

Happy Opening Week!

 Hello everyone! Happy 2010 baseball season! I hope those of you that celebrate Easter had a happy Easter weekend! Mine was good except for the rain, we didn’t really need to go outside anyway because my parents hid most of the eggs in the house. My nephew loved the egg hunt, it was the funnest thing ever for him. After that i had brunch with my parents, sister, bro in law & their two kids. That night i watched the season opener of the Red Sox & Yankees.
  On Monday i stayed home most of the day because it was opening day! I watched the Cardinals first, and Pujols hit two home runs in the game also Carpenter pitched well, he did give up a few runs though and still got the win. ;) After that i watched the Giants against the Astros, i did not realize the Giants would sweep but they did! The first night Lincecum was pitching and he had 7K’s and no earned runs, which was good compared to the rusty spring training outings.  The Giants offense looks good so far, Aaron Rowand seemed to be cold the first two games but he went 4-6 on Wed.  I thought Zito & Cain pitched surprisingly well, Cain did struggle a little at the end but they have a great pitching staff compared to the other teams. Brian Wilson closed two of the games in houston and he was pretty sharp too, I think they had Medders in for too long in that one game, but when he came in he got the job done.  I was sad though about Buster Posey being sent back to AAA. I was hoping that they’d use him as a backup catcher but then he wouldn’t get to play everyday. I think he would be a good dh if the Giants were an AL team.   I also watched some Angels games this week because of the free preview channels on comcast.  They seem to struggle with the pitching this year since they no longer have Lackey.  Their hitting is pretty decent after acquiring Matsui from the Yankees. The Twins seemed to be tougher against the halos, especially the two sluggers Mauer & Morneau. Hopefully tonight they can at least split the series. 
 Today i watched the Rangers & Blue Jays because CJ Wilson was making his first start ever, since being in the bullpen for most of his career on the Rangers. I am not sure if he started in the minors or college, but it was nice seeing him start & he did really well too, he had 7 k’s in 7 innings, sadly the bullpen blew the 1-0 lead so Wilson didn’t get the win. :( This is really long so hopefully it made sense.  I am not the greatest writer in the world and i sound like im 15 years old but i am more of  ranter so a lot of things wont make sense coming from me. haha ;)   Til next time! I am going to the Giants vs Braves game on the 10th!  Its Timmy’s 2nd cy young award night & fireworks.

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