…. Miracle!
The Giants came from behind with a two-run, ninth inning rally, after Sergio Romo likely pitched his way into oblivion:
…. Were the Giants lucky to win? It is hard to argue otherwise, though they engineered a terrific rally before the error to overcome a severe body blow: pinch-hitter Eric Hinske’s two-run homer against Sergio Romo in the eighth inning, which turned a 1-0 Giants lead upside down.
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Okay, I give up. Looking at all the time stamps on the posts above (or perhaps they’ll be below, who knows until I submit this comment) I cannot make out any kind of order.
If the most recent comment is at the top, but responses are below the post they’re responding to, well, shit, let me tell you a story about retrograde orbits and how they messed with people’s minds for thousands of years. Or let’s not and say I did.
Please don’t be offended, John, but I studied usability in web design for three years (hey they paid me to, so I wasn’t going to say no) and this new format is less friendly and less intuitive than the old one.
Reading from the top to the bottom is a universally adopted format, even with languages that are read right to left you still read from the top to the bottom. There may be rare exceptions, such as the knot writing of the ancient Incans, but for the most part no. Please have mercy.
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What was Aaron Rowand doing in the game except for swinging at three pitches with predictable results? Was that some sort of attempt to allow him to succeed and thus justify his being signed for an obscene amount of money? If so, it was not a successful attempt to demonstrate anything but his continued mediocrity and the total waste of money his contract represents.
And about Renteria's appearance in the game; did I miss something? Or was it Edgar who missed something? Clank! And no error? Please say it ain't so.
Leaving Zito out of the post season roster was probably a hard call, but Zito was a Magowan blunder. Leaving Rowand or Renteria off the post season roster would be admitting to a Sabean/Bochy blunder.
Sending that craptastic duo into the game where they both failed, well, that was just poetic justice. However I doubt either Bochy or Sabean will be asked about Rowand or Renteria after the win. Not by the Giants media lackeys. The story is, after all, that the Giants won, not how the manager keeps failing to stop them from winning. (There was a period of time when I entertained the idea that Bochy was still on the Padres payroll, or possibly the Dodgers', but that was just a paranoid delusion – I finally realized that Bochy is just incompetent.)
Bochy is lucky that the performance of those two stiffs didn't prove decisive in a loss. They certainly could have been disastrous. Bases loaded, who do you call? How about Travis Ishikowa, Pablo Sandoval, Mike Murphy?
Not Mr. 75 hits. Mr. Squat. Not him.
A one run lead to defend, who do you send in to play shortstop? A guy with the mobility of a totem pole and hands of stone? How exactly does Renteria fit into late innings defensive moves? I'm not a baseball genius, I just want to know why a guy with no range and bad hands is in there. I think it was to prove that it wasn't a mistake to sign him.
I believe putting Rowand and Renteria on the post season roster, then sending them in to play, was an effort to justify the decision to sign them to their ridiculous contracts in the first place. But I have a wickedly suspicious mind. I even think people are frequently motivated by money and self interest at the expense of the general good. Even when it comes to professional sports. I should be more trusting, I know.
Thanks to the gods the Giants won, and that the players had the class, day after day, to commiserate with Brooks Conrad, to applaud Bobby Cox, to display a degree of restraint on the field as visitors. The Giants won by out-pitching the Braves. There was a lot of luck involved on the San Francisco side.
A lack of pride, of hubris, is right and proper. I admit to being oddly superstitious where baseball is concerned and I feel that any breach of etiquette, any display of pride at this point might prove fatal.
Freaking wow.
Like Uncle Joe says maybe a healthy Braves team wins this thing. But damn. 4 one-run games. FP Santangelo says lots of stupid things; but the following was not one them. “Who knows, but for a couple of bad calls the Giants are gone in 3 straight.
Yeah maybe. But like we all know, this shit evens out, and lord knows its been since 2002 since the baseball gods smiled even a little bit on this team. The is not a great team. It is a good team with a core of young players that is promising. Sandoval, Posey, and the pitching staff. Its a beginning, and frankly when I look at the Phillies I think the Giants have little to no chance. Of course I thought they had little chance against the 101 win Braves and the 97 win Cardinals in 2002
Then again when the opening day lineup against the Astros over 6 months ago looked like this:
Aaron Rowand CF
Edgar Renteria SS
Pablo Sandoval 3B
Aubrey Huff 1B
Mark DeRosa LF
Bengie Molina C
John Bowker RF
Juan Uribe 2B
Nobody but nobody predicted a post-season appearance. Nobody. That lineup doesn’t say much for Brian Sabean. But then there was this one.
Torres
Sanchez
Huff
Posey
Burrell
Uribe
Fontenot
Ross
Tonight this one did. Just enough to get by a battered team with the first rookie to win an LDS clinching game in almost 30 years.
It would have been the easy thing to expect a team with little to no playoff experience to fold after getting behind and losing the ballbuster at home on Saturday. But they didn’t collapse. Yeah, Atlanta thought they were in the World Cup and not the LDS, but what the fuck, the Yankees have been feasting on opponent miscues since before I can remember.
And thats all you can expect a team with marginal talent to do; capitalize on opponent miscues, stay close, work the counts, and play with the kind of intensity that makes them believe something good is going to happen. I mean, four fucking one run games. And the Giants send out a 21 year-old rookie.
No matter how banged up the Braves were, thats just damn impressive.
my 12 year old nephew called me in the 8th screaming about how he could manage better than bochy…and im sure he could
he is a sox fan, yet knows every player on the giantse
and he couldnt figure out why bochy (who was gonna put nate in for defensive purposes) didnt have nate running for burrell
this team overcame their idiot manager…much in the way the snakes overcame that blowhard that is on tbs
and i watched a master at work in the other dugout….at 69, he is sharper than men half his age…
does anyone believe that bochy could have willed a team with all the injuries the braves had to the playoffs…then keep every game to one run?
i hate bruce bochy
grats to the giants for moving on
kudos to the atl and cox for digging down deep and making it a very good series
a healthy atl does not lose this series, and bochy is shown up for the fraud that he is
+mia is right….Romo has been dominant, he made a bad pitch, just like B-Dub did the other night…not much you can do about that…Romo is one of the horses that got us to where we are today…..the only thing to second guess is whether or not to leave Sanchez in for one more batter, NOT the move to Romo
once again, not defending Bochy, but not sure how we can say he is being “out-managed”…he is NOT doing a superior job managing, but at the same time, Cox is sure fk’ng things up over there as well…he had a better glove on the bench to use in extra innings, and walking Panda in game 1!? wtf??…he walked a player who is now benched because of his shitty bat…not the shrewdest move……the old man looks like he doesn’t even care….
Is it against the rules to change your post season manager between series? I would like to look into swinging a trade for Dusty now that he’s been sent home instead of big head Bochy from here on out.
Problem: TBS announcers suck, but KNBR radio broadcast is too far in front of the TV video signal.
Solution: Use INTERNET radio, which is behind the TV and synch with a DVR.
1. Use a DVR to pause the TV.
2. Use your PC or an iPod to listen the the KNBR broadcast.
3. Press play on the DVR once the internet radio broadcast catches up to the TV.
This worked perfectly for me yesterday.
WTF John?
This new formatting is problematical. Half of my post got cut off, (yeah, yeah, hooray and all that happy horseshit)
And putting the most recent post at the top, is counter intuitive,
I wanted to try something new. I think it might be a nice change.
Well its different in the same way that Brian Sabean is different. Its like the old Netscape newsreader/email clients newsgroups from 1998 put your tape decks on record. The posts are out of context. I read Az9er fan and went like “what the fuck is he talking about”, until I scrolled down the page. I get the nesting underneath the original reply, to a specific poster, but its difficult to follow otherwise..
Its like reading a book and starting on the back page.
Seriously though, I am glad nesting is back, the shaded boxes are a nice touch too, and the remainder of the other cosmetic things are appreciated.
Hey. My two and half fucking worthless cents.
Fuck getting on Romo. If anybody needs getting on, its Bochy, and I am not going to second guess here, with the exception that “on TV” his slider both nights looked flat. And its not even a hi-def tv, so no way can I second guess using my set up guy in the 8th inning with a one-run lead even though he and Wilson both got banged up the night before.
This is Sergio Romo. Three Years in the bigs.
Career era+ 162 (188) this year.
Strikeout to walk ratio of 4.36 (5.00 this year)
Strikeouts per nine innings pitched. 10.00 (10.2 this year)
Walks plus hits per inning average of fewer than one per inning .962 WHIP
And seven-fucking-tenths of a homerun per 9 innings.
Sergio Romo in his three year Big League career is putting up fucking Little League numbers.
This is a guy whose story is almost as fucking compelling as Andres Torres, except he’s a 28th round draft choice and the 852nd kid taken in the 2005 draft
The year of Armando Benitez, LaTroy Hawkins, Tyler Walker, Jason Christiansen. Sergio Romo is the guy that has been bridging Lincecum, Cain, Sanchez and Bumgarner to Wilson all season long, turning Giants games into 7 inning affairs.
That is a hell of a jump from Brawley, Mesa State in Grand Junction Colorado. And for all of us and when I say us, I mean me, who have insisted for years, that the younger guys get on the job training, this is part of the price one pays. Young pitchers are inconsistent. It is part of the price of admission…a price every Giants fan should be willing to pay at this juncture.
2001 wasn’t all that long ago, and it was Mariano Rivera who gave up the blooper to Luis Gonzalez for the D-Backs WS win.
It is fucking really hard to manage a team like the Braves and the Giants. There is so little room for error. There is very little threat of a guy coming off the bench Earl Weaver-like to pound a 3 run jack to bail your ass out of a sling. The Giants don’t have those guys. They simply don’t.
Teams like the Giants expose guys like Bochy to all kinds of traps, and Bochy, being a bureaucrat simply doesn’t have the capacity to make the adjustment to the post-season if it means going against the safe percentages. Bringing Romo in with his numbers for Bochy is playing the percentages. He can always defend himself with “the by the book defense”.
Guys like Bochy with mediocre written all over them, don’t stay around in a cutthroat baseball world by going against those percentages.
For those of us, myself included wh
i dont blame romo….bochy walked right into the trap set by the master cox
bochy has now been out managed 2 games in a row
bochy will never join cox in the hof
the man who was chosen to lead the giants, because he was supposed to be a master at managing starters and the pen…has done neither in the lds
sanchez was not faltering….the man who led the league in bb’s had given up 1 so far, and was about to face a banged up glaus….pull him then? heck no
but the pumpkinhead did…and of course cox countered with putting up hemske…who feasts on pitchers like romo
and somehow, despite the giants coming into this series with 7 pen arms…bochy seems to fearful to use 4 of them
best pen in the last 2 months and you are now afraid to use them?
had the giants played a healthy atl team…we wouldnt even be having this conversation…they wouldve been swept
fire bochy
You could see Romo didn’t have it (though, to his credit, he did get the last 2 outs, and the win). Bochy has to put him at the back of the line.
Giants were undoubtedly lucky. But they had already tied the game after coming within one strike of oblivion.
But there will be no series with the Phils if Giants don’t take advantage of chances — they could have put Hudson away earlier but left 5 runners on in first two innings.
Still, the thought of a Lincecum-Halladay Game 1 battle is enticing. Hope Bumgarner is up to the task.