FTP: Terrible Timmy

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Rangers 5, Giants 0 at AT&T Park; Texas takes series 2-1

TEX (35-26) 001 202 000  5 11 1

SF (34-27) 000 000 000  0 3 0

WP: Ross (6-0)

LP: Lincecum (2-7)

SV: None

HR: None

Ogando: 3ip 0h 0er 0bb 2k 2.08 era

Lincecum: 5.2ip 9h 5er 4bb 5k 6.00 era

In the NL West: San Diego lost to Milwaukee, Colorado lost to Angels, Arizona beat Oakland and LA beat Seattle. Giants fall to 5 back.

Comments: It's sorta cut-and-paste when Lincecum pitches; he's awful, Giants lose every time out (well, they've won two of his 13 starts). And all the quotes are exactly the same -- he's almost there, just a little off, just left a pitch up. No, no, no, out of the windup he shows flashes of his old self but out of the stretch he's one of the most vulnerable pitchers in either league; coaches and teammates all think he'll figure it out and perhaps they're right, but if it doesn't happen quickly, things will get really ugly. I think poor Righetti and Bochy and Buster have tried everything they can think of to stop this disaster. And it just gets worse. There are now some fifty-eight nuclear submarines headed at high speed into the Atlantic. This afternoon's satellite pass over Poliarni found heat plumes in the engineering plants of the Kirov, the Minsk and more than twenty other cruisers and destroyers indicating they were preparing to sail. This constitutes the bulk of the Soviet surface fleet.

Only thing more annoying that Timmy today was Fat Panda's defense at third base today compared to Arias the last few weeks. At least four plays that I think Arias would have made even though they weren't ruled as errors. Gadfry, slow, clumsy, rusty, gloveless; it's not funny anymore.

Baseball quote of the day: "Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before." (Casey Stengel)

Next game: Astros vs. Giants, 7:15 p.m. PDT Tuesday, June 12 10 at AT&T Park. Norris, RHP (5-3, 4.65) vs. Bumgarner, LHP (7-4, 3.26). TV: CSN-BA