FTP: Deadball Era?

Monday, June 4, 2012

Giants 3, Cubs 2 at AT@T Park

CH (18-36) 020 000 000  2 8 0

SF (31-24) 010 010 10x  3 8 0

WP: Vogelsong (4-2)

LP: Marmol (0-2)

SV: Affeldt (1)

HR: None

Samardzija: 5ip 7h 2er 5bb 6k 3.13 era

Vogelsong: 7ip 8h 2er 0bb 3k 2.38 era

In the NL West: LA and Phillies just starting, Colorado-Arizona tonight; Arizona off, apparently. Giants trail Dodgers by 2.5 right now.

Comments: What an interesting series and finally, first Giants sweep of the year: 4-3, 2-1, 2-0, 3-2; all hard-fought pitching duels. Hard to imagine the Cubs have won only 18. Christy Mathewson's photo graces today's FTP because it seems kind of appropriate to have that 1912 theme at Saturday's game, as these games must have resembled dead-ball-era games more than today's baseball, especially that of the hopefully-gone Steroids Era. Remarkable starts in the series by Bumgarner, Cain, Zito and Vogelsong; Vogie was the only one not to make it 8 innings, and he made it 7. That's good for a bullpen that's kind of dinged up. Not a lot of offense; only XBH today was a double by Crawford.

Panda News: Pablo Sandoval is playing for San Jose tonight then Fresno starting tomorrow; they hope to reactivate him a week from Tuesday, the real bloggers say. He apparently got a pretty good chewing out Saturday from Bochy over the sexual assault incident and gaining weight while off. Seems to me they should just give him the weight number they want, put him in Fresno and call him up whenever he reaches it. If it's a week, fine, if it's two years, cool.

Baseball quote of the day: "Let's play two." (Ernie Banks)

Next game: Giants vs. Padres, 7:05 p.m. PDT on Tuesday, June 5 at Petco Park in San Diego. Lincecum  (2-6, 5.82) vs. Bass (2-5, 4.00).