A Hustling Team is a Winning Team?

When I was a kid, my grandfather use to wake me up in the morning with a loud "hustling team is a winning team". That's always stuck in my mind, no mater what sport I am watching or playing.

It seemed that last night that the Giants were hustling, making the plays in the field and running everything out, but we just couldn't get it done, and get the win.

Does Zito have the curse of Cain?

First I have to give kudos to Barry Zito who was stellar last night.

Yes, he gave up two homeruns but if you know ANYTHING about baseball, you saw how beautifully he pitched the ENTIRE game and how he is starting to blossom into the pitcher the Giants knew he could be. Here are some good and bad things from the game:

• Zito gave up only 5 hits and pitched though the 8^th inning. His longest outing since 2003
• Batters were 0-12 with RISP (UNACCEPTABLE!!!)
• Zito now has the lowest run support of any starting pitcher, with less than 1.9 runs scored per game.
• He pitched 116 pitches, with 74 strikes
• Zito was able to get himself out of a few jams by pitching smartly and letting the D work for him.

To all the Zito haters out there. Go shove it.

The guy works harder than any pitcher we have, on and off the field. He isn't blind, he knows he doesn't have the same pop as when he was with the A's, so why hound him about it? Yes, the Giants may have gotten a little ahead  of themselves by spending that much money, I'll give you that. But, don't hate the player, hate the game. Now his biggest obstacle isn't pitching well, it's getting run support. That is out of his hands. He deserved a W last night and you can't argue about that.  

BREAKING NEWS!!!!

Pablo Sandoval WALKED!!!!

Nice to see him not swing at any/everything for once. I love the guy, but he needs to develop his eye, just a little bit more.

The first and second innings were pretty much carbon copies of each other. Two out HR's by the Padres, and RISP less than two outs for the Giants, without a runner moving over OR scoring.

Do we need to take out the voodoo to get some hits? Where's that live chicken at?  

Randy Winn (who seemed to be one of the only awake offensive players last night) went 3 for 4 with a double and two singles. Good job Randy!

So, as I have stated before, I am not a huge fan of Velez but last night he proved a little bit (to me at least) that he deserved to be here. Some strong defensive and offensive skills were displayed and I hope he can keep it up. I think he knew that he wasn't going to be around much longer if he didn't pick it up. Maybe we just need to light a fire under his rear before each game.

LEWIS, WOW!!! What a catch. That's all I can say. It was one of the best plays I've seen one of our left fielders make in a LONG, LONG time!!

I would like to say also that the Padres Pitchers did really well last night too. That Heath Bell guy has some impressive numbers (or lack thereof). Opposing RH hitting has an average of .000!!! WOW!!

Hang in there Giants fans!! We can still take two on um : )

Next game can be seen tonight on CSN-BA at 7:10pm.

Starting pitchers are Sanchez (1-3) vs. Gaudin (0-3).

Here's go scoring 10 runs tonight.

GO GIANTS!!!

Jes