Game Wrap 5/8/2015: Giants 6 Marlins 0

Casey McGehee returned to the lineup and hit a grand slam HR in his first AB to give the Giants a lead they would not relinquish behind the shutout pitching of Tim Lincecum and Yusmeiro Petit.  Key Lines:

Buster Posey- 2 for 2, 3 BB.  BA=  Not sure if he is just being selective or if he was being pitched around or if the pitcher was just wild, but the rest of the lineup brought him home 3 times for a productive evening.

Brandon Belt- 4 for 5, 2B.  BA= .308.  Not much HR power, but Belt's hot streak got hotter as he peppered the field with line drives.

Justin Maxwell- 2 for 3, BB.  BA= .253.  Maxwell also had a long line drive, probably his hardest hit ball of the night, caught at the warning track in CF.

Casey McGehee- 2 for 4, HR(2), 2 GIDP(11).  BA= .195.  Nobody was complaining about the GIDP's tonight as McGehee smacked a grand slam HR in the second inning after Brandon Crawford had struck out for out just ahead of him.  McGehee is tied with Andrelton Simmons for the MLB lead in GIDP's except Simmons has 121 PA's to McGehee's 82.  The Giants have played 30 games which puts McGehee on a pace for 59.  The current record for GIDP's is held by Jim Rice with 36.  Remember when AJ Pierzynski hit into all of those DP's in 2004?  He hit into 27 that season.  Last year, McGehee led MLB with 31.  Why is he grounding into so many DP's this year?  Well, he's just hitting a whole lot of grounders!  Casey's GO/A= 2.41 so far this season.  Last year his ratio was 1.36 and his previous career high was 1.59 in 2012.

Tim Lincecum- 6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 8 K's.  ERA= 2.00.  Timmy was in control of this game all the way, although his pitch count got a bit higher than his last start.  He now has pitched 14 scoreless innings over his last 2 starts.

Yusmeiro Petit- 3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K's, Save(1).  ERA= 3.71.  Petit gave the rest of the bullpen arms another day of rest. He earned the Save despite the Giants large lead in the game due to pitching 3 innings.

The Win evened he Giants record at 15-15.  They remained in 3'rd place in he NL West, 4.5 games behind the Dodgers who topped the Reeling Rockies 2-1 in a rain-shortened game in Colorado.  The Pesky Padres held off the Dangerous D'Backs 6-5 to remain in 2'nd place, 4 games behind the Dodgers.  Arizona dropped to 5.5 games off the pace while Colorado brings up the rear with a 7 game deficit.  The Giants currently are 0.5 games behind in the race for the final Wild Card playoff spot.

Madison Bumgarner takes the mound this evening facing David Phelps who I had never heard of before, but has made 40 starts for the Yankees in the past 3 seasons.  He currently has thrown 3 QS's in a row.