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1/2 Season Review: The Best Games

rhys — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:30:51 -0000

This post, along with its brother (the worst games), serves as a recap of the best Giants games of the year so far at this halfway point. Please feel free to read up, look at the box scores, and vote copiously for the game you feel was the best so far.

April 7th, 2009 (Opening Day) – Giants 10, Brewers 6 – Travis Ishikawa hit a 3-run triple, and Randy Winn, Bengie Molina, and Aaron Rowand all homered. Only bad part was Lincecum staying in for only 3 innings. Notable: one of only four games this year where the Giants have been able to score 10 or more runs.

April 17th, 2009 – Giants 2, D-Backs 0 – Jonathan Sanchez actually pitched 6 2/3 innings of shutout ball, Andres Torres hit "the world’s fastest home run," and the Giants pulled themselves out of their season-opening 2-7 slide.

April 19th, 2009 – Giants 2, D-Backs 0 – Randy Johnson, Bob Howry, and Brian Wilson combined on a 1-hit shutout. Pablo "Sanchez" Sandoval went 3-4 and Fred Lewis was still hitting .395.

May 12th, 2009 – Giants 9, Nationals 7 – Pablo Sandoval hit a walk-off 3-run HR on a 2-2 pitch with two outs, complete with iconic bat-flip, and the Giants scored 7 of their 9 runs with two outs.

June 4th, 2009 – Giants 5, Nationals 1 – Randy Johnson won his 300th game, and Brian Wilson struck out 4 Nats for all of his 4 outs, preserving what was once a close 2-1 game.

June 12th, 2009 – Giants 3, Athletics 0 – Tim Lincecum pitched a complete game shutout and the offense was good enough.

June 23rd, 2009 – Giants 4, Athletics 1 – Timmy pitches another complete game and strikes out 12 A’s, Nate Schierholtz rips three hits.

June 29th, 2009 – Giants 10, Cardinals 0 – Some guy named Tim Lincecum pitches a complete-game 2-hit shutout, and the Giants offense explodes, touching a mysterious white pentagon many times.

First two games of the Astros series, July 3-4th, 2009 - Giants 22, Astros 0 - Tim Lincecum and Ryan Sadowski combine for 14 shutout innings, the Giants offense becomes suddenly potent, as Pablo Sandoval and Travis Ishikawa each go yard and 27 hits are produced, and the Astros sputter in every possible way, creating a perfect storm of delicious baseball.

via www.mlbfrontoffice.com

1/2 Season Review: The Worst Games

rhys — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:54:12 -0000

This post, along with its brother (the best games), serves as a recap of the worst Giants games this year so far at the halfway point. Please feel free to read up, check out the linked box scores, and vote copiously for the game you abhorred the most.

April 13th, 2009 – Dodgers 11, Giants 1 – The Big Unit lets up 7 ER’s in 3 2/3 innings, as Giants pitching lets up 15 hits to the Bums and the Giants offense gets dominated by Chad Billingsley.

April 26th, 2009 – Diamondbacks 5, Giants 4 – Pablo Sandoval’s 8th inning 3-run HR puts the Giants up 4-1, but Brian Wilson (sensing a pattern here) allows 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th inning to tie the score at 4. Connor Jackson gets the winning hit off of Brandon Medders in the bottom of the 12th.

May 6th, 2009 – Rockies 11, Giants 1 – Randy Johnson, once again, lets up 7 ER’s and the Rockies pound out 13 hits at hated Coors Field, as the Giants bats are silenced by Ubaldo Jimenez.

May 9th, 2009 – Dodgers 8, Giants 0 – Typical day on the hill for Jonathan Sanchez, who allows 5 ER and walks four, the Giants commit 2 errors; manage only 4 hits and no runs against Eric Stults, who pitches a CGSO.

May 21st, 2009 – Padres 3, Giants 2 – Randy Winn’s RBI single put the Giants up 2-1 in the top of the 9th, appearing to preserve a quality start from Tim Lincecum, but, Brian Wilson intervened, loading the bases in the bottom of the inning, plunking David Eckstein to force in a run, and then letting up the game-winning single to, who else, Scott Hairston, as the Padres walk off.

June 16th, 2009 – Angels 8, Giants 1 – Jonathan Sanchez gets dismantled by the reviled Halos while, on the other side, Giants hitters are baffled by Sean O’Sullivan (sigh), coming up with only 5 hits (1 XBH) for the game.

June 17th, 2009 - Angels 4, Giants 3 - jponry: "that game where Tim was going into the 8th inning with a 3 run lead and bad defense and poor pitches combined to blow it and give the Angels the series sweep." Yup.

June 27th, 2009 – Brewers 7, Giants 6 – The Giants blow leads of 4-0 and 6-4, as Brian Wilson allows 3 runs to score in the bottom of the 9th and the Brewers walk off.

July 1st, 2009 - Cardinals 2, Giants 1 - Bob Howry let up a walk-off HR to Colby Rasmus in the bottom of the 10th inning, as the Giants made three costly errors, Matt Cain got 'cained, and the Giants offense was embarrassingly bad on national TV.

via www.cantstopthebleeding.com

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What was the worst Giants game of the first 81?

SFG'S IN ASG

rhys — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:49:50 -0000

SFG'S IN ASG

Lincecum and Cain in. Wilson, Affeldt, and Sandoval not.

Juggernate = Bro?

rhys — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:38:51 -0000

Juggernate = Bro?

Nate Schierholtz makes an appearance in this weeks SI Pop Culture Grid.

The highlights:
1. Nate seems confident the Giants will take the NL West. Gulp.
2. He wants to date Megan Fox.
3. He recognizes Heidi Montag is desperate for attention.

The lowlights:
1. He's listening to the new Nickelback album. Kill me now.
2. He can't dance! (but he can knock certain catchers over)
3. He fails to pick up on the "True Blood" reference, claiming Sookie Stackhouse is "a giant sushi roll."

To round it out, he thinks GWB needs a hug, enjoys cooling off in the ocean, and surfing in the Caribbean.

All in all, a pretty decent dude, if a little bro-ish.

Wednesday Night Baseball

rhys — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:22:21 -0000

Wednesday Night Baseball

The Giants vs. Cardinals game on Wednesday, July 1st will be televised nationally by ESPN (5 p.m. pacific). Probable starters are Matt Cain for the Giants and Adam Wainwright for the Cardinals.

No More "Vote Bengie"

rhys — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:06:59 -0000

No More "Vote Bengie"

The Giants brass finally wisened up.

Keeping up the trend with bad movie previews... Just sub in the plane for the Giants offense and...

rhys — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:50:05 -0000

Keeping up the trend with bad movie previews...

Just sub in the plane for the Giants offense and you'll see how it's related to baseball...

Cool Simulation of Curveball

rhys — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:03:23 -0000

Cool Simulation of Curveball

I have no idea how they did that...

Bochy Ranked 11th Best Manager In Majors, Boston Globe Loses Credibility

rhys — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:53:40 -0000

Bochy Ranked 11th Best Manager In Majors, Boston Globe Loses Credibility

"11. Bruce Bochy, Giants: Gets a lot of respect for his in-game maneuvers, knowledge of the game, and general demeanor. "

My feelings for Bochy's in-game maneuvers do not even come near to "respect." Perhaps the size of his head influenced Nick Cafardo.

Blast From The Past - 2006 Draft

rhys — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:39:00 -0000

Blast From The Past - 2006 Draft

The reaction to Lincecum being drafted was resoundingly meh.

SB Nation User Blog: rhys

1/2 Season Review: The Best Games

What was the best Giants game of the first 81?

1/2 Season Review: The Worst Games

What was the worst Giants game of the first 81?

SFG'S IN ASG

SFG'S IN ASG

Juggernate = Bro?

Juggernate = Bro?

Wednesday Night Baseball

Wednesday Night Baseball

No More "Vote Bengie"

No More "Vote Bengie"

Keeping up the trend with bad movie previews... Just sub in the plane for the Giants offense and...

Cool Simulation of Curveball

Cool Simulation of Curveball

Bochy Ranked 11th Best Manager In Majors, Boston Globe Loses Credibility

Bochy Ranked 11th Best Manager In Majors, Boston Globe Loses Credibility

Blast From The Past - 2006 Draft

Blast From The Past - 2006 Draft