"Living a lie."
Giants catcher Buster Posey, owner of one of the better sports names, led off the bottom of the 2nd inning with a single off Mets starter R.A. Dickey (6-3). He moved up to second base on a ground out then over to third on a wild pitch. One out later he scored on a double to deep right by the Kung Fu Panda, Pablo Sandoval, and Tim Lincecum (10-4) had all the runs he would need. The Giants scratched out an insurance run in the 8th off three Mets relievers to make the final score San Francisco 2, New York 0. The game marked the first action of the season for Mets center fielder Carlos Beltran who finished the night 1 for 4 with a single. All 6 hits the Mets got off the dominant Lincecum tonight were singles. Timmy was special shutting out the Mets on 110 pitches, walking only 1 while striking out 5.
15 comments
metsfan4decades
7/16/2010-12:39am at 12:39 am (UTC -4)
Well, damn….we get vintage Lincecum tonight. Wouldn’t you know?
Not that our offense has been that great lately but Lincecum in a groove tonight certainly didn’t help.
Oh…and for those not in the dugout tonight…I still would have hit away with Dickey.
njstuckintx
7/16/2010-8:48am at 8:48 am (UTC -4)
4D, I enjoy the banter of a few in the dugout, but it’s just a bash fest of ridiculousness. I’m sure we’ll discuss for many moons on the blog here, but I can’t go back into that dugout. It just hurts my brain.
steveo
7/16/2010-12:45am at 12:45 am (UTC -4)
Tim was amazing tonight no team was getting to him nothing else to say when you face an ace and he pitches like one your in for a long night.
GravediggerHebner
7/16/2010-12:56am at 12:56 am (UTC -4)
Did you have any garlic fries or other AT&T fare?
steveo
7/16/2010-1:08am at 1:08 am (UTC -4)
Always and a few gordon bierch cold ones.Att park is wonderful and was pretty full tonight a great atmosphere to bad the mets lost
steveo
7/16/2010-1:14am at 1:14 am (UTC -4)
I feel like a groupy Ill be at all these games on this trip let’s hope the mets can get me some wins
DNDJohan aka kistics
7/16/2010-9:40am at 9:40 am (UTC -4)
lucky you…
njstuckintx
7/16/2010-8:51am at 8:51 am (UTC -4)
Been a while since I’ve last been there, but when I was, I had the luxury of sitting 3rd row back, right by Giants dugout. The owner sat in front of me. That park is just fantastic, the food, the sites, the fog rolling in over the hills. Worth the trip to SF.
ceetar
7/16/2010-8:53am at 8:53 am (UTC -4)
I enjoy that park. One of the best in the majors for sure.
ceetar
7/16/2010-8:44am at 8:44 am (UTC -4)
That’s not quite true. A bloop, suicide squeeze, or slow groundout from Dickey could’ve tied the game. It could’ve easily gotten Lincecum out of there a little earlier, and we could’ve scored on the bullpen. You never know.
Oh well, the Giants won’t hit again right? since Dickey screwed ‘em up?
njstuckintx
7/16/2010-9:18am at 9:18 am (UTC -4)
RA is making a case for himself for next year as well. That should leave only 1 spot to be filled in the rotation for both this season and next. Say they do get Oswalt or Haren, that solves everything for this and next. You get Lilly, that covers this year and then you look to fill 1 spot in the offseason. And you’ll have Mejia in the wings (well, not if Haren is acquired, but that would be worth it in my mind).
stickguy
7/16/2010-9:26am at 9:26 am (UTC -4)
agreed. The dickster has been doing this for a while now, and if he can keep producing for the rest of the season, why not look to bring him back? Although I think he will be a FA, so the Mets could have some competition.
the top 3 though (barring, knock on wood, an injury) should be set.
Only having to fill 1 spot will be quite the luxury, but might as well get someone like haren or oswalt now (if possible), since the FA pickings aren’t likely to be great, and there is no one in the minors giving any idication of being ready by then.
stickguy
7/16/2010-9:32am at 9:32 am (UTC -4)
Like Yogi said, it is getting late early.
Mets (and phils) are getting into that gray area. It seems like there is a lot of time and you are close, but the team is actually farther out and it is later than you think!
You really don’t want to be flirting with double digit games out when you are also getting below 60 games to play (the stretch run to me when you hit 8/1), since the odds of recovering from that is erally slim. Not impossible, just low.
So not falling more games back on this trip would be a real good thing!
Of course, if the Braves don’t go cold at soem piont and lose a bunch of games, it won’t really matter.
And I really can’t stand to see Jerry manage. I really do think that if you handed him a team in the playoffs, he would be clueless about how to go anywhere with it.
Some managers are the guy in a Corvette driving fast. Jerry is the old man in a golf hat driving a Buick at 50 in the left lane of the interstate.
ceetar
7/16/2010-9:36am at 9:36 am (UTC -4)
It’s not quite that gray area. 5 is not 10. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Last time people started talking 10 out the Mets won 5/6 from the Phillies and Yankees and dived right back in.
Obviously, you don’t want to lose more ground. And they’d been hovering around 2 excepting these last four games slumping. Right now the goal is just to win games. Preferably play at or slightly above the Braves rate, and put themselves in position to dive back in by beating them head-to-head. They still control their own destiny, and need to focus on themselves.
stickguy
7/16/2010-11:07am at 11:07 am (UTC -4)
right, Idid not mean that they were out of it. Just that they had very little margin for error. A bad few weeks and you could be looking at 10 with 2 months to go. They need to just win, baby!