The Giants finally took a 2-0 lead in the top of the 5'th inning, but Jonathan Sanchez couldn't make it out of the bottom of the 5'th. These days, all it takes is one bad inning and the Giants are sunk. Key Lines:
Jonathan Sanchez- 4.2 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 3 BB, 3 K's, L(4-5). ERA= 3.71. Sanchez seems to be slowly regressing this year. Maybe he needs to skip a turn or two when Zito comes back. That sure woke him up the last time he got pulled from the rotation.
Not a lot else to say about this game. They had 7 hits, 4 BB's and the A's committed 2 errors. It seems like they should have been able to parlay that into more runs. This team has zero power other than Cody Ross's occasional bomb. Burrell wasn't the DH for the second game in a row even though he seems like the obvious choice. His days on the team could be numbered.
With the Loss, the Giants stayed 0.5 games ahead of the Dangerous D'Backs who lost to the ChiSox 6-2. Here come the Rockies again! They gained a game to 3.5 back with their 4'th win in a row, this time 5-4 over the Detroit Tigers. The Desperate Dodgers got shellacked by the 'Stros again 7-0. They've lost 5 in a row and stayed 8.5 games behind the leaders while the Pathetic Padres lost their 4'th in a row, 1-0 to the Twins, to stay 9.5 games behind the leaders.
Matt Cain tries to stop the Giants losing streak at 3 facing Trevor Cahill who has struggled lately. Don't think we can count on him to struggle against the Giants though.
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This might have been the most unwatchable game of the year. What a huge swing in momentum starting after the 9th inning of the last game in AZ. We went from possible beat-down sweep of a hot division rival to nosedive in just 19 innings. Wow.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit I skipped out on this one. It doesn't look or sound like I missed anything but a lot of frustration.
ReplyDeleteWell Doc, to use your parlance, "Nothing to see here."
ReplyDeleteThe A's handed the Giants their 2 runs in the 5th. Neither run was earned. The Giants got a hit that should have been an error (Sizemore trips over his own feet on an easy grounder from Stewart) and the A's made another error in that inning. 7 hits and 4 walks, but nothing really strung together. You can't really overstate how dead the offense is.
Bad vibe, sinking feeling from Jonathan. Immediately surrendering a lead that he was given is just bad, bad mojo. To look at him in the dugout after he got pulled, you'd think he was pitcher with an ERA in double digits. He looked really shaken.