September 2010 Archives

I haven't been to the yard this week, but I'll be there tomorrow and Sunday. From the look and sounds of the crowds, it's been raucous and giddy and deeply, deeply appreciative. Watching your favorite team put on the afterburners...
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OK, I'm exaggerating a bit. Tim Lincecum had some stuff tonight. But you wouldn't know it from the guys on the radio side, who kept saying Timmy didn't have his great stuff, based in part on his rocky first inning...
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Let's for a moment hypothesize that the Giants make the playoffs. Wait, first a safe harbor statement: Because of anti-jinx regulations, I am only bringing this up as a helpful thought exercise, completely theoretical. I am in no way gloating...
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Posey went 0 for 4 tonight, but he might have done the best work of the game. Jonathan Sanchez seemed pointed toward a melt-job, walking four in the first two innings and putting the team behind by two by the...
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So here I am, back at my beloved home-office desk, on a balmy September night with the windows open, and I'm glad there was no game tonight. Mrs. Malo, the Monkeypants and I got back late afternoon, exhausted from a...
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You think Andres Torres is frustrated having to watch from the bench these past 10 days? What about me? How do you think I feel, stuck here in New York and forced to follow the action on MLB Gameday or...
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It's looking more and more likely that the Giants could be forced to win extra games to make the playoffs. The last time they faced tiebreakers, it was the night of the final episode of Seinfeld, and I was forced...
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The Giants have now played a full week of games without Andres Torres, and the results are four wins, three losses, and continued feast or famine. In the four wins, the Giants scored 6, 2, 10 and 9 runs. In...
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The headline says it all. Sure, Travis Ishikawa and Mike Fontenot and Aubrey Huff had key hits, but without Matt Cain refusing to budge, those hits would've been quickly forgotten irrelevancies a week from now. Kudos, too, to Sergio Romo...
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Zito good, Kershaw better. Kershaw much much better. From where I was sitting in the 138, Kershaw was filthy good, still throwing 93 on the corners in the 9th and dropping his hammer below the knees. Dude can pitch. His...
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We still don't know how Bruce Bochy will adjust to Andres Torres' appendectal absence. Lineups for tonight's game versus Clayton Kershaw, perhaps the nastiest left-handed pitcher in the league, will be posted in the late afternoon. I have no idea...
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It was a good weekend to be a Giants fan, as you all know by now. The series win over San Diego was the team's best showing of the year, except perhaps for the three-game sweep of Los Angeles at...
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How fitting. The Giants hit four home runs tonight at Petco Park, the first time they've done that in what, seven years of games there, and all of them were bombs. No wall scrapers. But the big daddy of them...
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If I were a mustachioed country singer, I'd slap on some tinted shades, strap on a Fender, leap on top of my amp and bellow to the world, "Are you ready for some baseball?" Ahem. I'll ask again: Are you...
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Is Timmy back? If so, where did he go in August? Using Pitch/FX data, BP's Eric Seidman wrote this analysis of Lincecum's troubles before Tim went out and dominated the D-Backs through six innings last night. Like an old pitcher...
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It's as if the Giants, after scoring a bonanza of runs in July and watching their vaunted rotation trip over its shoelaces in August, have reverted back to their original formula the past few days: 11 herbs and spices, four...
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Yesterday's post brought up the age-old debate of building from within versus buying from without. One reader wrote that he (she?) would rather see the Giants give their minor leaguers big-league experience in 2011 instead of buying more "band-aids," ie,...
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Ah, a hole in the schedule. A lull in the magic. A short break before the exquisite waterboarding recommences. What better escape from the daily grind than nerding out in the nebulous future? If the season ended today, here are...
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When was the last time a guy made his major-league debut as a pinch-runner and more or less stole the game? Darren Ford, who has stolen other less wholesome things in the recent past, shocked the Rockies in the 8th...
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