Wait a sec, I think I figured it out. I might be too old to blog if they change around the look of the bloggifier a little bit and I suddenly can't find anything! I'll skip all the tedious numbers; Giants lose to A's 6-2, breaking an 11-game winning streak in SF over Oakland.
I guess the big story is still Lincecum, now 2-4 with a 6.02 ERA; he hasn't really been the real Timmy this year yet, and on this icky pace might win 7 or 8 games all year. Plus, he was covering the plate after one of his many wild pitches and got clocked in the jaw pretty good on a headfirst slide by Collin Cowgill (isn't that a radio guy?). Might be pretty easy to get Lincecum signed to an extension if he's this lousy, but why would anyone want to? I don't know enough about him to know if there's just some weird mechanical thing wrong or if this is just how he is now after a few years. I'm sure he has already panicked and called his dad many times, at least I hope so.
One other thing -- Sunday was the first time the Giants have used the same lineup two days in a row, and I'm sure Bruce Bochy is thinking, "See? That didn't work!" So he'll go back to being the master of destroying everyone's confidence and rhythm.
Baseball Quote of the Day: "There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way." (Alvin Dark)
Next game: Giants vs. Brewers at Miller Park, Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. PST. Bumgarnder (5-3, 3.10) vs. Wolf (2-4, 6.38). TV: CSN-BA
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