Sorry for the late Game Wrap. I've been on an R&R weekend trip up the coast with the Mrs. We took in a concert by Don Henley and Emmylou Harris Saturday night at the Santa Barbara Bowl. From the appearance of the performers and the people in the crowd, I'd say we were about the youngest people there!(cough, cough). Anyway, as unpleasant as it is, back to baseball. The Giants had a complete meltdown in this one as the offense remained comatose and the pitching crashed and burned in spectacular fashion. The result was one of the worse blowout losses in recent memory. In the process, the Giants were eliminated from postseason play, at least I think they were. I've honestly stopped really tracking it as they were eliminated in my mind a long time ago. Key Lines:
Pablo Sandoval- 2 for 3, 2B. BA= .315. Talk about gamers! Pablo is a guy who easily could have given up on the season a long time ago, but he just seems to be getting better through injury and dispiriting play from his teammates around him. He would have been my pick for the Willie Mac Award had Vogey not done his remarkable thing this year.
Eric Surkamp- 0.2 IP, 3 H, 6 R, 4 BB, 0 K's. ERA= 5.32. I didn't see the game. Bacci says he was getting squeezed by the ump. Baggs seems to think he just couldn't get the ball over the plate. He as also very slow to the plate with runners on base and the D'Backs ran wild with 3 SB's in his 0.2 IP. All in all, it does not look like Surkamp can be penciled into the rotation for next season meaning the Giants probably have to tender Jonathan Sanchez a contract and hope he figures out what went wrong this year.
Guillermo Mota- 3.1 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 3 K's. ERA= 3.65. Mota has done this time and again this year. This game was already well out of reach by the time he entered it.
Like I said earlier. I think this loss eliminates the Giants from postseason competition although I've honestly stopped keeping track that closely.
Tim Lincecum takes the mound for the series finale facing Tomahawk Boy. Hope they don't leave Timmy out there too long. He and Cainer deserve a rest, and probably need it too.
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lots of peeps think that surkamp hit his limit on ip
ReplyDeletei was watching the game and the tracker and i promise, he threw pitches that shouldve been called strikes that werent
if he missed, it wasnt by much
he has a couple of things to do in the offseason....
get a better regimen....gotta keep up his stamina
needs a slide step and has to learn how to hold runners
gotta work on secondary pitches....
still think he is gonna be the 5 guy
i think that the team gave up last week
i dont think they are a team anymore at all
bunch of guy who are planning on where to spend their golf and fishing weekends