It just Slipped through our Fingers

Last night was another great game. This time it was courtesy of our SF Giants and the NY Mets. Before I start to get into the meat and potatoes of the game, I want to share something interesting I found out.

Did you ever wonder how the NY Mets came about? Well, when the Dodgers and the Giants left NY, it devastated the National League following that had followed them for years. Because of this, the city of New York established the Mets as a National League team that NY fans could support. The colors of the Mets uni's were taken from both teams!! The orange from the Giants and the blue from the Dodgers. I thought that was REALLY interesting!

Back to present day now : )

The Giants had about 4 wasted opportunities to score some much needed run support for Sanchez. He looked okay on the mound, but still allowed his head to get out of the hitter every once in a while. He plowed through and ended up with a much better outing than his last couple starts. I would say a positive game for Sanchez nonetheless.

What really killed us was the lack of clutch hitting. We could have blown the game wide open a couple times, but failed to capitalize with runners on base. We ended up leaving TWENTY THREE runners on base. Yeah, not so good. The Giants have been working the "ground attack" this season, but last night, with about 8 steals the Mets beat us at that game too.

A couple interesting statistics that Kruk and Kuip pointed out was the fact that Bengie Molina accounts for over 23% off ALL Giants RBI's. WOW! Thank goodness for Bengie! Also, that Burris leads the National League in infield hits. The kid is good, and he is only going to get better.

When we tied it up at 4-4 I thought we really had a chance to come back and win, but our All-Star closer Brian Wilson ended up giving the Mets a 3-run lead that we couldn't rally against in the 9^th. It was a disappointing loss, but I am happy to say that we did pretty good against a great hitting team.

I'm anxious to see how the rest of the series goes and hope that our NY predecessors will be able to see what the Giants are really made of.

One thing that didn't help us either was the umpiring. The inconsistent strike zone, and the steal to third that SHOULD have been called out (not safe) hurt us as well, but as all my coaches told me when I pitched, you can't let the umps control the game.

On a random note, Bengie is so TOUGH! Did you see the foul that dinged him? Not only did he walk it off, but he stayed in the inning and the game. Man, that guy is diehard, I love it.

Well folks, hopefully tonight will have a different outcome.

Game time is 7:15pm, pitching matchup will be Hernandez vs. our boy Lincecum. The game will be aired locally on NBC-11.

(late addition to the blog: Is Renteria okay?!)