The Giants just finished off being swept in Arizona, as Matt Cain couldn’t hold a six-run lead, Jeremy Affeldt couldn’t earn his salary, and Buster Posey couldn’t deliver a game-winning hit for the second time in the series. The Giants are 0-3, last
in the division. Excuse me, but someone needs to tell the Giants the games count now. Brandon Crawford, a glove-first shortstop last season, has already made two game-changing errors, and the pitching has failed to live up to any of the hype that had so many pundits picking the Giants to win the West.
Zito heads out to Colorado to try and stop the skid. Good luck with that.
UPDATE: Guess I should be dismissive of Zito’s chances to win more often. 
4-hit shutout? Unbelievable. Good for him. Good for the Giants.
UPDATE, Part II: Is something going on with Lincecum? Rob Neyer details the pitcher’s surprising decline since his Cy Young days:
…. Lincecum finished (spring training) with the Giants’ third-best strikeout-to-walk ratio, behind Bumgarner and Cain, and the Giants’ third-best home-run ratio, behind Bumgarner and Cain. Based purely on last season, we might have guessed that Lincecum actually entered this season as the Giants’ third-best starting pitcher. Based purely on this March, we might have guessed that Lincecum actually entered this season as the Giants’ third-best starting pitcher.
Also in the piece is some data stating that Lincecum’s velocity is down all the way to 90.
His strikeout/walk data seems to clearly show him losing velocity and command since ’08. That worries me. I’m not panicking, but I’m worried.
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oh, and zito had another great start
anyone see the mad scientist who did the arm switch on zito and timmy?
Sorry John: It just gives false hope to the battered wives in the Giants fan base. If Lushwell Huff and his 214 BA and Zito aren’t gone by the All Star Break, it will be because Sabean is more mule-headed than even I thought possible, or we are about to witness a bigger change in fortune than if Poland had turned the tables on Germany in 1939.
Just the 3rd shutout by a LHP at Coor’s EVER!
Glavine has the other two.
Amazing only begins to describe it.
Gotta love baseball…..
And Zito pitches a four hit shutout.
This season is beginning in a weird way.
cant complain about the O john
would love to know why bochy showed his hand playing aggressive small ball during st, then went right back to station to station play
giants finally have speed….use it
All valid points, but….it IS just 3 games. Arizona is the team picked by the other half of pundits to win the West, which meant this should have been a close series, as it turned out to be. And this is largely the same team that was run out on to the field last season. At least they scored 6 runs on Sunday as opposed to scoring 4 in each of the other games of the series?