Saturday, August 3, 2013

Surprisingly Tough Tim

The small, but gratifying, three game win streak came to an end with a hard fought, tense 10th inning loss, 2-1, in that Dome o' Doom they call a ball field in Tampa Bay.  Tim Lincecum, rather surprisingly, matched up well against the reigning AL Cy Young recipient, David Price.  Hits were few and scoring chances fewer; actually our kind of ball. I guess the ultimate difference was that Tim's high pitch count (and Bochy's revolving door) got us much deeper into our bullpen. So deep, that a nifty game sank into a sea of shit when our fifth reliever, Jean Machi, mailed it in with three walks and then a hit to end it. Really piss poor way to end a good game.

Timmeh's numbers (7 innings, 6 hits (all singles), 1 run, 1 walk and 5 K's) were quite solid. As usual this season, he seemed to fall behind to every batter and had to work pretty hard, especially early in the game. Not pretty or efficient, but damn effective. It always seems to be a grind for our Freak now. However, lately he seems to be a bit harder to hit. Fewer big hits, too. Maybe it's just my imagination...

I love that song...

Oh yea, FIRST caught stealing (after 19) for Tim this year. Think maybe, that is a good thing for him to work on?

No more Beezy, so some FNG tomorrow. Can't be any worse, right?

3 comments:

M.C. O'Connor said...

David Price and Fernando Rodney are a tough act to beat.

I hope Tim is a Giants pitcher next year.

Brother Bob said...

Strange offense yesterday. Our first four hitters were 0 for 16, our last 3 hitters were 6 for 12.
But the real reason we lost is Kieschnick didn't play.

Zo said...

Tim has had 10 games this year in which the Giants have scored one or fewer runs (0) while he was the pitcher of record, according to the Chronic today. Also, Madison becomes the first Giant pitcher since Gaylord Perry (1969) to put up 10 consecutive starts, throw at least 7 innings in each and give up no more than 3 runs. In 1969, Gaylord Perry threw 325 innings (not a typo) and compiled a 19 - 14 record.