The Giants had their ace on mound in a must-win game, but he did not have his best stuff going and a very good Dangerous D'Backs team took full advantage and ran away with the Win, probably knocking the Giants out of the race for the NL West Championship. They may not be mathematically eliminated, but it seems like only a matter of time at this point. Key Lines:
Carlos Beltran- 3 for 3, 2B, BB, Assist(Young at 3B). BA= .295. Beltran is now 7 for 7 and has reached base 8 straight times over the last 2 games. Alas, the lineup support just wasn't there tonight.
Pablo Sandoval- 0 for 2, 2 SF. BA= .296. Pablo drove in the only 2 runs for the Giants with the 2 SF's. Not nearly enough!
Pat Burrell(LF)- 0 for 1, BB. BA= .234. Pat the Bat aggravated his sore foot. His Giants and MLB career might be over as of tonight.
Tim Lincecum- 5 IP, 9 H, 5 R, 3 BB, 7 K's. ERA= 2.75. Timmy threw some good pitches as evidenced by the 7 K's, but he was very inconsistent. You could see early on that he was getting a lot of pitches up in the zone and a lot of pitches in the fat part of the plate. He got away with it for a couple of innings but then the roof caved in.
Ian Kennedy(D'Backs)- 7 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 6 K's, Win(18-4). ERA- 2.96. Kennedy has really had a remarkable season. The Giants had a good approach in the first few innings forcing him to throw over 60 pitches in 3 innings. As has been the case so often this year, the offense was just too weak to take advantage. I would think Kennedy deserves some consideration for the Cy Young Award. The ERA is competitive and the Wins and Win% are impressive.
The Loss dropped the Giants back to a 6 game deficit in the NL West trailing these Dangerous D'Backs. Again, it ain't over until it's over..... but it's over!
Ryan Vogelsong goes against Daniel Hudson in the series finale tomorrow.
BTW, if the Cubs are looking for a good GM who might not be on a lot of radar, they might consider Jerry DiPoto who did an admirable job as an interim GM and made several trades that really laid the groundwork for this season's run by the Dangerous Ones.
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yup...its all over save the fat lady singing
ReplyDeletevery strange k zone tonite...affected timmy, not kennedy
hope sabean and bochy realize that its over and start playing the kids
if i was running the team, huff would be benched for the remainder and i would split time between pill, derosa an belt
im sorry, but huff deserves nothing right now
IMO, Huff never deserved anything. No player deserves anything except for the manager to try to win as many games as possible. Most of this season, there was reason to play Huff in hopes he would come out of his slump/funk and give the team some offense. No reason to do that now!
ReplyDeleteBelt, in particular, needs as many MLB AB's as he can get, unless they've already decided to start him out in the minors next year.
Yes, it was a strange K zone, but I don't think that's any reason why Timmy should leave a lot of pitches up and over the fat part of the plate. Kennedy may have been affected. He did throw a lot of pitches early in the game. The Giants hitters are just not as good as the D'Backs hitters, so they failed to take advantage and Kennedy didn't give in by throwing pitches in the middle of the zone.
i think that timmy gave in after he found his stuff on the corners wasnt getting called
ReplyDeletegiants short in pen for a few days, romo's wife just had a baby
rex ryder romo
romo is a very funny guy
It looked to me like Timmy was throwing juicy pitches from the get-go and just got lucky in the the first couple of innings.
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