Giants 3, Rockies 2, 10 innings: Dan the Rockies blogger asked me if I thought the Giants could start scoring more runs. After I sponged the pee out of my pants, I caught my breath and replied that the only way the Giants would win more games was with longer outings from the starting pitchers, more consistency from the bullpen, and clean defense. Eh voila!
After flailing at the plate all day, the Giants tied it in the ninth, the capper being Steve Holm’s pinch-hit RBI double to the left-center field fence. He was supposed to start, then got scratched with stomach ouchies, then delivered in the pinch. Steve Holm, 28–year-old minor-league veteran rookie backup catcher with a flair for dramatic extra base hits whose mom came to see him play on Mother’s Day? Hellllooooo, man-crush.
PLODAG: Holmie, with sprinklings of kudos to the bullpen kids for strong work.
The Upside: Jonathan Sanchez. Ol’ Dirty wasn’t dominant, but he went into the seventh without his best stuff against a scary lineup and kept the Giants in the game. In the post-game wrap, Kruk raved about his progress in holding runners on and in fixing his mechanics from the stretch — in other words, for growing up a little bit in the hellhole of Coors Field. Atta babe!
