When the Giants Come to Town, It's Bye-Bye Baby

09.25.2007
8/24 Post-Game: My New Favorite Giant

Giants 9, Padres 4: Who got this party started? FreddieLew, that’s who! His team down 2–0, Lewis drew a two-out walk that sparked the Giants’ first rally. It was the key moment in the game. He extended the count against Chris Young the next inning and floated an RBI single into the outfield, then in the 5th he singled and stole second on a pitchout. Of all the Giants young hitters, Lewis (not that young at 26, 27 in December, but still) has the best record of patience at the plate.

On a night when Bad BarryZ. came to work looking like the guy who pitched every other game or so from April to July, Lewis helped make sure that Zito couldn’t cough this one up.

PLODAG: FreddieLew!

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SMALL PRINT UPDATE: Now reading Three Cups of Tea. Amazing story of an American mountain climber who fails to climb K-2 then stumbles into a Pakistani village and makes lifelong friends. The climber, Greg Mortenson, devotes his life (at least through page 300) to building schools for poor children — with an emphasis on educating girls — and other development projects in Pakistan’s remote Himalayan north. For more information about his organization, the Central Asia Institute, go here. Contribute money if you can. Or read the book. Often the prose, “co-written” with journalist David Oliver Relin, is purpler than all kinds of mountains majesty, and the adulation borders on hagiographic, but it’s easy to shrug off when the story itself is so compelling.



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[September 25, 2007 11:05 AM]  |  link  |  reply
bigO said

I'm reading "The Road" right now. I'm sure you've heard about it OR read it. My girlfriend read "Three Cups of Tea" in her bookclub and went to see the author speak on Sunday and it was sold out. She was the only one from her club not to get in.

[September 25, 2007 1:48 PM]  |  link  |  reply
obsessivegiantscompulsive said

Nice call on Freddie! I would note that Chase Utley didn't get to start regularly until he was 26 years old, and didn't hit THAT well the year before, though OK for a 2B, hitting .266/.308/.468/.776, with his main plus being 13 homers in 267 AB.