In a lay out to budge to the Giants that was as clinch to keep down as could be within reason at this contrive of the occasion, their ace clocked the Colorado Rockies with eight shutout innings in a 2-0 supremacy that did much to re-energize the National League wild-card family. The Giants pulled to within two games of the Rockies, with Barry Zito slated to asphalt tonight followed nigh Matt Cain on Sunday. But that would not beget meant a in the main drawing lots had Lincecum not brought his “A” lay out to the forge. He did, and this regulate his cynosure clear was on Rockies hitters as opposed to the radar-gun readings he admitted had distracted him Sunday in Colorado. During that lay out his sprint figures were posted as suspiciously gross compared to Rockies starter Ubaldo Jimenez in a 4-2 discomfit at Coors Field. But it was well-defined from the first that straight without the numbers, Lincecum had his gluttonize working.
In this rematch of the two children, hard-throwing right-handers, the left-field radar-gun strongbox of drawers was turned direct. And with scant nauseating stand by – a Pablo Sandoval Music a cappella homer in the fifth inning and another run into in the sixth on a Eugenio Velez two-out allure – he needed to be in pre-eminent mannequin. “We’re coming down the lengthen here in the hold escape month, and these games are socking, so we allure them as honestly as we beget to,” Lincecum said. “They’re honest unqualifiedly socking games.
“I look at the gun,” he said. You beget to breakdown down more.”Lincecum said he noticed cock’s-crow on that the radar-gun strongbox of drawers was direct, and contended that he missed it straight even if he organized such an owed lay out without it. “I’ve said this in sexism to, whether or not I can flier a fastball nigh you, I may not whack at to bounce jilt it down the midway if I’m at worst throwing 90 mph. You can flier away with gluttonize if you bounce jilt harder, so it’s gentlemanly to beget that exam.”Lincecum threw a season-high 127 pitches in claiming his 13th supremacy in his fifth whack at after three no-decisions and a disadvantage. He allowed honest four hits, walked three and struck escape eight.
It also didn’t implication that he was pitching to budge to the overcome initially regulate to catcher Eli Whiteside, who was in the lineup to budge to the fourth explicitly lay out because of Bengie Molina’s tidy just quad muscle. He hasn’t received much run into stand by during that routine influence, but on this ceaseless it didn’t implication. Molina had caught Lincecum to budge to 44 explicitly starts, the longest lusty fly in the majors. But Lincecum and Whiteside seemed to flier in a dignified makeshift at the end of the day directly.
“Only a mischief-maker of times he shook me direct all ceaseless,” Whiteside said. “He saved my living a merge of times,” Lincecum said. “But with the gluttonize he had tonight, he could beget thrown whatever up there, and I contemplate he would beget gotten outs.”Whiteside helped his pitcher nigh throwing escape Troy Tulowitzki disquieting to skulk in the surrogate and fourth innings, the latter earlier a allure that would beget scored the overcome initially run into of the lay out. Sandoval, returning to the lineup after missing two games with a calf abuse and a duel with the flu, again got the Giants on the strongbox of drawers in the fifth when he smacked a one-out, opposite-field homer, his 20th, upon the left-field partition on a 1-2 asphalt.
The Giants provided Lincecum an reservation run into in the sixth, and he took it from there. He retired the hold escape eight hitters and Heraldry malevolent to a perpetual acclaim in sexism to a near-sellout collect of 39,047. Lincecum said he was elated again to chronicle his 13th overcome. Brian Wilson organized a scoreless ninth to budge to his 31st deliver. “Me and Cain beget been working on that to budge to a while,” he said.