Saturday, January 29, 2011

18 games in September: IX

The Giants had an off-day after the Showdown in San Diego and came home to face the fading Dodgers on Tuesday the 14th of September. Clayton Kershaw was the story, dominating the home team with a 4-hit shutout. Barry Zito was the hard-luck "loser", giving up one unearned run. The Dodgers only got ONE HIT! The run scored on the old HBP-bunt-walk-walk-error play, a tactic employed at all levels in the Dodger organization and only used against the Giants. It was a hair-pulling, agony-inducing loss, but the Giants obviously subscribed to the "if it don't kill ya, it'll make ya tougher" school of thought and soldiered on without complaint. The 82-62 Padres won two in Colorado to take a 1-1/2 game lead over the 82-64 Giants. I remember being really bothered by the fact that the Giants were two back in the loss column. Such silly things I fretted about! Check out the Middle Four Death Squad of Santiago Casilla, Ramon Ramirez, Javier Lopez, and Sergio Romo doing their thing again. Those guys were a huge part of the championship run.

--M.C.

p.s. Scott at Crazy Crabbers gave RMC and our take on The Streak a nod in his link round-up. T'anks, lad! If you haven't checked out the excellent work being done over there, take the time to do so now.

                                                         
Pitching                IP H R ER BB SO HR  ERA BF Pit Str
Barry  Zito L (8-13)   5.2 1 1  0  3  5  0 4.02 21  82  49
Santiago  Casilla      0.1 0 0  0  0  1  0 2.20  1   5   3
Ramon  Ramirez           2 0 0  0  0  1  0 3.23  6  19  13
Javier  Lopez          0.1 0 0  0  0  1  0 2.28  1   3   3
Sergio  Romo           0.2 0 0  0  0  1  0 2.41  2   9   7
Team Totals              9 1 1  0  3  9  0 0.00 31 118  75


Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 1/29/2011.

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