Kudos to the Rockies for the Fight

Good news or bad new first?

Since it's classic to give the bad news first, I'm going to pretend to be a non-conformist and go with the good news first. Truth is, the bad news is just a little too depressing to start with.

Good news is that our offense is very much alive, as today's game against the Rockies proved. We even scored two runs on a non-home run. Yes, it's true, we did, but the rest of the runs we scored depended on our boys playing long ball. Freddy Sanchez homered in the first to put us on the board, but the Rockies came back with two runs quickly against lefty Barry Zito. The Giants then put two more runs on the bored on two solo homers. One by Andres Torres who just recovered from an appendectomy (he didn't play the whole game today), and one from Aubrey Huff who has been struggling on the road.

Pat Burrell singles, and this is one of the runs we scored on a non-homer.

The Rockies topped us again (they seemed to be one step ahead of us) before we pulled Barry Zito out and threw in Chris Ray from the bullpen. Tulowitzki homered after Gonzalez tripled, making the score 4-5. Don't worry, I'm still talking good news here, but Tulowitzki would come back later to haunt us.

So after the Rockies score some more (4-6 Colorado) we got some men on base. Travis Ishikawa comes up to hit and he singles to score Uribe. This is the other non-homer run.

The next homer by Cody Ross (whom by the way I was cheering for in the kitchen while doing something like the can-can) scored Fontenot and Ishikawa, giving us a big boost...which we evidently couldn't hold on to. We scored one more before Colorado went off on us, but it wasn't a very exciting run scored...Freddy came home on a wild pitch by Dotel. 9-6 Giants, but we still couldn't hang on to that 3 run lead.

The Rockies must really want in on the post-season.

Anyway, that ends the good news.

Three solo shots, and a three run homer by Ross shows that our offense isn't dead yet, even if it is Barry Zito out there on the mound.

Okay the bad news.

So we lost.

Brian Wilson who really barely ever blows saves, blew it. He gave up a double to Tuloswitzki who I said would come back to haunt us, but that's not EVEN that last we'll see of him. Anyway, his double ties the score. We go into extra innings, but just one. In the 10th, Tulowitzki doubles again to score Gonzalez and we lost 9-10 Colorado.

Oh wait, some more good news.

Despite us being 0.5 games behind San Diego, we are tied with Atlanta for wild card.

Even though we lost today's game, it was reassuring to know that we can hit those balls. We can score runs, and we can score runs even when were behind, or when we're ahead. The Rockies were just better tonight. Tomorrow we'll pull it together and do it all over again. No biggie.

Matt Cain will pitch against De La Rosa.

We'll let his pitching do the talking, and we'll also let our offense speak for itself.

Hopefully, our offense will have our backs.

(Ross, Freddy, Huff, Uribe, Torres, Burrell, Ishikawa........just to name a few).

We can't be dependent on the Reds to beat the Padres or the Braves to lose.

We're back to hangin' in there.

But we're hangin' in there with Matt Cain pitching tomorrow and an offense that wants to fight, so it's a good kind of hanging in there.

A quotation of inspiration from the most genius poet of all time

(when you can't find words that rhyme, make 'em up):

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat.  I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
 -- Dr. Seuss