Torres, Posey, and Bumgarner lead Giants to victory

 GIANTS 5 - ROCKIES 2

So the Giants continued two of their trends last night.

First, they kept pace with last season and won to bring their record to 73-60 which matches lastseason's record after 133 games.  Although they were 5.5 games back as opposed to 4 back like they are now!

Second they continued their trend of making bad pitchers, last night it was Esmil Rogers who was sporting an ERA of 5.66 coming in, look like Cy Young.

Things were looking grim.  The Giants managed 4 frickin hits and 2 runs off of Rogers over 6 innings.  Melvin Mora tied the game in the 8th with an opposite field homerun to right field off of Jeremy Affeldt, who continued his streak of allowing a run every time he makes an appearance, spoiling a great effort from Madison Bumgarner.

As I was sitting in my nutrition class and learning about how Lipids contribute to heart disease, I was checking my phone and wondering how much the 2010 San Francisco Giants have contributed to heart disease in the Bay Area.  I was seriously getting angry and I wasn't even watching the game!

Then Andres Torres hit his 310 foot homerun into the rightfield stands and the Giants were on their way to victory!  Buster Posey capped off the scoring with a 2 run opposite field double later in the inning to make sure that no broken bat triples coupled with a throwing error would send the Giants fans home with frowns on their faces.

Tonight's game features Ubaldo Jimenez throwing for the Rockies against our Timmy boy.  It would seem that the schedule from last year is a scary thing to go by since the Giants dropped game 134 with Timmy on the mound.  But don't fret Giants faithful because the Rockies have failed to win a series on the road since June 28-30!

Belt watch:

Brandon Belt was 1 for 2 last night with a 3 run homer and 3 walks for Fresno in their 7-6 loss to Salt Lake City.

Since a quick check of the calender reveals that it is September 1st, please allow me to be the first to welcome Mr. Belt to the Big Leagues!

You win some you lose some

ROCKIES 6 - GIANTS 1

The game looked like it was a game that the Giants were destined to lose.  Everyone who looked at this series and saw that Ubaldo Jimenez was pitching chalked the game up as a loss for the men in orange and black.  Most were predicting a split of the series and it looked like the Giants believed them.

The Giants managed 4 hits, one run, and 9 strikeouts against the former NL Cy Young frontrunner. Not an impressive line at all.  Well not if you are a Giants fan that is.

But at the end of the day it just seemed like the Giants were flat which I guess they are allowed to be every 2 out of 10 games or so.

The only really disappointing development today was Madison Bumgarner's performance.  Not that he was especially terrible today but he looked pretty hittable.  The Rockies got 9 hits off him in 4 innings but he worked himself out of a jam or two to limit the damage to only four runs.  The reason why this is disappointing is that Bumgarner may be on the verge of becoming fatigued.  He is about 10 innings away from equaling his career high of 141 2/3 IP.

But it could have just been another flat performance on a day full of flat performances by the Giants.  But it is worth keeping an eye on.

I kinda feel flat writing this post today....

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Congratulations to Buster Posey for winning both the NL Rookie of the month and NL Player of the month awards.  It kinda seems redundant to give both awards to the same guy but since it's a Giant and not some other loser I'm not complaining!