Hey Phillies, you're on our turf now.
Home of the Golden Gate Bridge, and notoriously difficult to walk up hills (even more annoying to drive up, ah the tires!) Foggy mornings, days, and afternoons, sporadic weather, and chilly Pacific winds, nope, San Francisco never disappoints.
After coming home off rather painful loss in Philadelphia, the San Francisco Giants were quick to bounce back. After an earlier flip-flop in the pitching rotation by manager Bruce Bochy the Giants put starter Matt Cain on the mound. I've decided that the Giants just have a problem with Game 2 no matter who we put on the mound. But that's beside the point. Matt Cain shook off his last start (which he quite honestly did fine in, we just didn't win) and took to the mound again today for round 2.
I wonder how he fits all that hair under the cap...
Matt Cain was looking good...pitching wise.
He dominated, allowing two hits, issuing just two walks and striking out five. He featured a wide array or pitches today and went for 7 innings before handing the ball to our bullpen. Cole Hamels pitched today for Philadelphia. The lefty went for 6 innings, allowed one walk, 5 hits and 3 runs. He also struck out 8 in the process. San Francisco claims to have the best bullpen in all of the majors -- but in the post season, the bullpen has been slightly inconsistent. Today however, they got the job done, no messes to clean up. Javier Lopez came in the 7th to relieve Cain, the lefty specialist also took on a righty today, and managed to keep his post season record perfect.
Brian Wilson (what an awesome guy) earned the save. His second against the Phillies. He allowed on hit to Rollins and struck out Werth swinging. We ended the game on a high note, as Ibanez (who is 0-10 in this series) ground into a double play.
It's annoying that since today's game was in the middle of the day, I could have bought tickets from a secondhand source for a reasonably cheap price. However, since it's a day game, I'm also stuck withering away in French, Anatomy and Math class while shouting the scores across the room to friends.
"TWO AND OH TO BURRELL!"
One can see how that could not work out well, or better yet, in French. "TROIS ET DEUX A HUFF!"
Sigh, two more years, just two more years. Only, who knows where I'll end up in two years...
I feel like I'm going to hear about the importance of education tonight...
Oh well.
Last night the Rangers shut out the Yankees in a 8-0 win lead by the seemingly unstoppable Cliff Lee.
Today's batting line up was all twisted and weird and mutated, not that it didn't work out for us. My first thought was that it would mess up our team chemistry going on, but I guess not. We led off today with Edgar Renteria who was at short, then Freddy Sanchez at second in his usual spot. Instead of Huff, Posey followed, obviously behind the plate for the day. Burrell started in left, batting 4th. Then came Cody Ross (cheers loudly) who was in right, but later moved to left. Aubrey Huff followed Ross, then it was Uribe starting at third today. I guess his wrist was better. Aaron Rowand started in centerfield today and took on the 8th spot in the batting line up.
I guess it wasn't weirdly mutated, just different.
Aubrey Huff, Freddy Sanchez, Edgar Renteria, and of course Cody Ross all produced. We somehow found a way to get men from base home without any big blasts. The Phillies got through the line up once without a hit. Edgar Renteria in the lead off spot was the one to break up the no-hitter, singling to spark a rally of sorts. Freddy succesfully bunted, sending Renteria to second. Posey got out (the details are vague because we were setting up an experiment while all this was happening). Burrell took the walk, and with two outs Cody Ross came up to bat.
Continuing to add to his impressive post-season record, Cody earned himself another RBI by singling and sending Burrell to third and Renteria home. Still with two outs, Aubrey Huff singled in Pat Burrell to make the score 2-0. Matt Cain was able to hang on to that after having to dig out of a few stressful situations. No bases loaded situations though. We were able to keep their offense quiet today. Silent actually, shutting out our second team this post-season. Our third run came after a double by former Phillie, Aaron Rowand. In another 2-out situation, Freddy Sanchez was able to knock him in, making the score 3-0 Giants.
Looks like the one run game streak has ended, but it's very possible that it could come back.
2 down, 2 to go.
Phillies in San Francisco Day 2.
Let's Go.
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