Some guy named Paul Clemens shut the Giants out tonight. He'd been a truly terrible pitcher until tonight, when the giants made him look like Roger Clemens.
I'm not sure what it is about this team that enables a guy like this -- who shouldn't even be in the bigs -- to dominate.
I really wish that batting "coach" Hensley Meulens would be fired.
Year in and year out, it's the offense that is lacking. Meulens was a terrible MLB player who's unable to get anyone to hit consistently. I hope he takes the fall if this team doesn't make the postseason
Best game of the year
Kelby Tomlinson delivered the goods once more in a game the Giants had to win.
Henry Schulman of the SF Chron calls it a "crazy" game. Casilla blew a save in the 10th; Bochy pitched Cory Gearrin in the 12th, put him in left and brought in Lopez and then had Gearin go back on the mound to close it out.
Here's part --
PHOENIX - With two outs to go in Friday night's 7-6, 12-inning victory against the Diamondbacks, reliever Cory Gearrin stood in left field facing incredulous stares from Denard Span and Hunter Pence.
"They were asking me, 'What are you doing out here?'" Gearrin said with a huge grin. "I asked them where I should go. They told me to just play straight up. I said, 'What's straight up? Where do I line up for that?' It was fun. It was definitely a first for me. It's something I'll never forget."
The entire 5-hour, 23-minute game was hard to forget, not just Gearrin becoming the first Giants pitcher since Noah Lowry in 2007 to play another defensive position, and the first since Keith Comstock in 1987 to start an inning on the mound, move to a different position, then return to the mound.
Gearrin earned the save after Santiago Casilla blew another one in the 10th inning, a remarkable occurrence in so many ways, starting with manager Bruce Bochy's surprising decision to let him try to save a 6-5 game.
On Friday afternoon, two days after Casilla allowed a ninth-inning homer in what became a 7-6 loss to the Rockies, Bochy declared he would use different relievers to preserve games, ending Casilla's reign as the singular closer.
With 11 other relievers his disposal, Bochy let Casilla start the 10th. Even more incredible, with one out, Bochy let Casilla face his personal Torquemada, Jake Lamb, whom Diamondbacks manager Chip Hale sent to pinch-hit.
Lamb was 2-for-2 with two homers against Casilla this season and had three homers against Casilla overall.
Sure enough, Lamb homered again to tie the game 6-6 and pinned Casilla with his eighth blown save, the most by a Giant since Armando Benitez in 2006.
Henry Schulman of the SF Chron calls it a "crazy" game. Casilla blew a save in the 10th; Bochy pitched Cory Gearrin in the 12th, put him in left and brought in Lopez and then had Gearin go back on the mound to close it out.
Here's part --
PHOENIX - With two outs to go in Friday night's 7-6, 12-inning victory against the Diamondbacks, reliever Cory Gearrin stood in left field facing incredulous stares from Denard Span and Hunter Pence.
"They were asking me, 'What are you doing out here?'" Gearrin said with a huge grin. "I asked them where I should go. They told me to just play straight up. I said, 'What's straight up? Where do I line up for that?' It was fun. It was definitely a first for me. It's something I'll never forget."
The entire 5-hour, 23-minute game was hard to forget, not just Gearrin becoming the first Giants pitcher since Noah Lowry in 2007 to play another defensive position, and the first since Keith Comstock in 1987 to start an inning on the mound, move to a different position, then return to the mound.
Gearrin earned the save after Santiago Casilla blew another one in the 10th inning, a remarkable occurrence in so many ways, starting with manager Bruce Bochy's surprising decision to let him try to save a 6-5 game.
On Friday afternoon, two days after Casilla allowed a ninth-inning homer in what became a 7-6 loss to the Rockies, Bochy declared he would use different relievers to preserve games, ending Casilla's reign as the singular closer.
With 11 other relievers his disposal, Bochy let Casilla start the 10th. Even more incredible, with one out, Bochy let Casilla face his personal Torquemada, Jake Lamb, whom Diamondbacks manager Chip Hale sent to pinch-hit.
Lamb was 2-for-2 with two homers against Casilla this season and had three homers against Casilla overall.
Sure enough, Lamb homered again to tie the game 6-6 and pinned Casilla with his eighth blown save, the most by a Giant since Armando Benitez in 2006.
Worst game of the year
The Giants bullpen self-immolated tonight in Denver, only getting one out in the bottom of the 9th as Casilla, Osich and Joe Nathan gave up 3 runs.
There are still 23 games left so perhaps we can say they got an awful one out of their system tonight. I hate the Rox and their stupid park.
Henry Schulman's stpry for the Chron tells you all you need to know --
DENVER - Some stats and notes jump off the page and seem incomprehensible, like the Giants having played 26 road games in the second half without consecutive wins.
The Giants were three outs away from checking that off their list Wednesday night when they ran into a painful and familiar problem: Santiago Casilla's inability to shut the door consistently.
The Rockies came back from two runs down in the ninth to beat the Giants 6-5 on Cristhian Adames' two-run double off Joe Nathan with one out in the ninth inning.
There are still 23 games left so perhaps we can say they got an awful one out of their system tonight. I hate the Rox and their stupid park.
Henry Schulman's stpry for the Chron tells you all you need to know --
DENVER - Some stats and notes jump off the page and seem incomprehensible, like the Giants having played 26 road games in the second half without consecutive wins.
The Giants were three outs away from checking that off their list Wednesday night when they ran into a painful and familiar problem: Santiago Casilla's inability to shut the door consistently.
The Rockies came back from two runs down in the ninth to beat the Giants 6-5 on Cristhian Adames' two-run double off Joe Nathan with one out in the ninth inning.