Well, what can you say. The Giants come home for the first time this season and pick up their World Series rings. Things start out great in the first game as Barry Zito pitches well and the Giants win 1-0. Zito goes 7 innings and matches Bum shutout for shutout.
Things were tough for Vogey and the Giants dropped the second game 6-3. Vogey couldn’t hold on to a 3-1 lead and didn’t make it past six innings. It only got worse as Boch burned 4 relief pitchers.
Then came the rubber game. At first, Cain was looking great. Had 30 pitches in three innings but couldn’t get out of the 4th and by the time the inning was over, Cain had 9 earned runs. The Giants would go on to lose the game 14-3.
I know there were a lot of people who wanted Cain out of the game. I thought it was important to keep him in there as long as possible so we didn’t burn the bullpen out . Boch had to do the same thing about two years ago when he had Bum pitch one inning when he let up 8 runs against the Minnesota Twins.
In this game, the good news was that we had Chad Gaudlin who was able to man up and pitch 3 innings so the bullpen could be rested for the Rox and the Cubs. Rox are 5-1 now, winning five in a row, and I knew in the back of my mind that they would be a different team now that they don’t have the iron man rotation.
After the game, Cain said that there will be times when you can have a bad outing. Let’s face it, I watched the Red and Nats game on Friday and Haren was hammered throughout the game and the Reds won 15-0. Haren is a better pitcher than the 4 innings that he threw on that day.
In the end, it’s only the 6th game of the season.
Rick Holman
Things were tough for Vogey and the Giants dropped the second game 6-3. Vogey couldn’t hold on to a 3-1 lead and didn’t make it past six innings. It only got worse as Boch burned 4 relief pitchers.
Then came the rubber game. At first, Cain was looking great. Had 30 pitches in three innings but couldn’t get out of the 4th and by the time the inning was over, Cain had 9 earned runs. The Giants would go on to lose the game 14-3.
I know there were a lot of people who wanted Cain out of the game. I thought it was important to keep him in there as long as possible so we didn’t burn the bullpen out . Boch had to do the same thing about two years ago when he had Bum pitch one inning when he let up 8 runs against the Minnesota Twins.
In this game, the good news was that we had Chad Gaudlin who was able to man up and pitch 3 innings so the bullpen could be rested for the Rox and the Cubs. Rox are 5-1 now, winning five in a row, and I knew in the back of my mind that they would be a different team now that they don’t have the iron man rotation.
After the game, Cain said that there will be times when you can have a bad outing. Let’s face it, I watched the Red and Nats game on Friday and Haren was hammered throughout the game and the Reds won 15-0. Haren is a better pitcher than the 4 innings that he threw on that day.
In the end, it’s only the 6th game of the season.
Rick Holman