MLB: Bayside Stories - an 09 San Francisco Giants Dynasty

[Mit]

STOP SPELLING LINCECUM WRONG, LOL

and I think you should stop doing those game previews because youll tire yourself oiut, maybe just a series preview

I didn't even realize that I was spelling Lincecum's name wrong. Wow. lol.

You think I should stop doing those game previews? It is a little bit of a hassle to do them.

payback's a bitch. lol @ pitchers hitting home runs.

al pitchers are worthless at the plate

Haha. I know man. I seriously just made solid contact with the ball and it somehow ended up in the right-field stands. I was pretty stoked at hitting the homer.

Tim is the next Micah Owings at the plate.

LOL at the Natinals shutting you out.

lol. Tim > Micah Owings in terms of hitting.

And yeah. It's pretty disappointing, but John Lannan was on all night. I couldn't hit anything until the 9th inning, where I was kind of confused as to why I couldn't score a run.

[Mit]

8-Run 8th Allows Cain To Pick Up 12th Win Of Season


Left: Matt "Dannity" Cain steals a move from the Matrix, as he dodges a ball headed straight towards his noggin | Right: Giants Manager Bruce Bochy looks on as Nick Johnson discards a pitch into the right-field stands

Game Story
Today's game was a very interesting one. It was exciting right up until the end of the game, even though the Giants won 9 to 4 against the Nationals. All but one run in the game came in the last 3 innings of the game. The Giants took the lead early as Pablo Sandoval homered deep to left right field off of Shairon Martis. That was the only run that Martis would give up in the game. In the 7th inning, the Nationals were up to bat, as they were down 1 to 0 and Matt Cain pitching a strong game. After getting the first two outs in the inning, Matt Cain faced Nick Johnson thinking he would be able to get him out too. Cain fired a curveball down and in to Nick Johnson and Johnson made solid contact and homered off of Cain. The score was 1-1 going into the 8th inning.

The 8th inning was when things got very interesting. The Giants scored 8 runs in the inning and errors committed by the Nationals helped facilitate the Giants offensive barrage. There were 6 hits in the inning and all of them were singles. The big hit came off the bat of Pablo Sandoval, as he hit a single straight through the middle whic hscored both Edgar Renteria and Delmon Young. The Nationals came into the bottom of the 8th inning down 9 to 1. They were able to scrap out a run as Ryan Zimmerman doubled home Cristian Guzman. The Nationals also did get 2 more runs in the 9th inning. Elijah Dukes walked to lead off the 9th inning and Austin Kearns singled. Pinch Hitter Roger Bernardina took the plate and hit a pitch from Osiris Matos deep into center field, which scored both Dukes and Kearns. Bernardina hustled to third and got the triple. Jonathan Sanchez then entered the game for the Giant and ended things without allowing a run, as he struck out Josh Bard and got Cristian Guzman to fly out to end the game.

Pitching
Matt Cain (W, 12-0) - 7.0 IP | 6 H | 1 ER | 1 BB | 4 K | 1.57 ERA
Osiris Matos - 1.1 IP | 3 H | 3 ER | 1 BB | 1 K | 2.42 ERA
Jonathan Sanchez - 0.2 IP | 1 H | 0 ER | 0 BB | 1 K | 2.67 ERA

Pitching
Shairon Martis - 6.0 IP | 7 H | 1 ER | 0 BB | 3 K | 8.07 ERA
Matt Chico (L, 1-4) - 1.1 IP | 0 H | 1 ER | 1 BB | 0 K | 5.88 ERA
Collin Balester - 0.0 IP | 3 H | 4 ER | 2 BB | 0 K | 3.33 ERA
Michael O'Connor - 1.2 IP | 4 H | 3 ER | 1 BB | 2 K | 3.38 ERA

Batting
RF Randy Winn: 1-5, R
SS Edgar Renteria: 2-4, RBI (14), SB (8)
LF Delmon Young: 1-3, 2 BB, R
CF Aaron Rowand: 1-5, R, 2 K
3B Pablo Sandoval: 2-5, HR (10), 3 RBI (34)
1B Travis Ishikawa: 1-5, R, 2 K
2B Dallas McPherson: 1-4, K
C Bengie Molina: 2-5, RBI (7)
P Matt Cain: 2-3
PH Rich Aurilia: 1-1, R

Batting
SS Cristian Guzman: 2-5, R
2B Ronnie Belliard: 1-4, K
3B Ryan Zimmerman: 1-4, 2B (25), RBI (29)
LF Adam Dunn: 1-4, 2B (11)
CF Elijah Dukes: 1-3, 2B (11), R
1B Nick Johnson: 2-4, 2B (10), HR (10), RBI (28)
RF Austin Kearns: 1-3, R
C Jesus Flores: 0-3, K
PH Josh Bard: 0-2, K
P Shairon Martis: 0-1
PH Josh Willingham: 0-1, K
PH Roger Bernadina: 1-1, 3B (1), 2 RBI (2)


Player of the Game

3B Pablo Sandoval

[Rudi]

Matt "Dannity" Cain.

[Mit]

MLB Transactions

Florida Marlins Receive: RP Kyle Gunderson (Age: 24, 5 Years @ $100K)
Washington Nationals Receive: RP Logan Kensing (Age: 26, 2 Years @ $500K)

Chicago White Sox Receive: C Ramon Castro (Age: 33, 1 Year @ $2.30M)
New York Mets Receive: SP Lance Broadway (Age: 25, 3 Years @ $100K)

San Diego Padres Receive: CF Tony Gwynn Jr. (Age: 26, 2 Years @ $200K)
Milwaukee Brewers Receive: CF Jody Gerut (Age: 31, 1 Year @ $1.50M)

New York Yankees Receive: RP Romulo Sanchez (Age: 25, 3 Years @ $100K)
Pittsburgh Pirates Receive: SP Eric Hacker (Age: 26, 1 Year @ $100K)

Baltimore Orioles Receive: CF Joey Gathright (Age: 28, 1 Year @ $600K)
Chicago Cubs Receive: LF Ryan Freel (Age: 33, 1 Year @ $3.80M)

Atlanta Braves Receive: CF Nate McLouth (Age: 27, 3 Years @ $5.10M)
Pittsburgh Pirates Receive: SP Charlie Morton (Age: 25, 3 Years @ $200K), SP Jeff Locke (Age: 21, 5 Years @ $100K), CF Gorkys Hernandez (Age: 21, 4 Years @ $100K)

[Mit]

Giants Moves
Call Up RP Jeremy Affeldt from AAA Fresno
Call Up 3B Jesus Guzman from AAA Fresno
Option RP Brandon Medders to AAA Fresno
Option 3B Morgan Ensberg to AAA Fresno

[Mit]

[Mit]

Got lazy here. Not the best layout, but it works in my opinion.

[Rudi]

I think I see Jesus in the crowd.

[Mit]

Series Preview

VS.

(39-26) (28-37)

Game 1

Barry Zito (6-3, 1.53 ERA) vs Jason Hirsh (2-3, 5.05 ERA)

Game 2

Tim Linecum (8-3, 3.63 ERA) vs Jeff Francis (4-2, 3.30 ERA)

Game 3

Jonathan Sanchez (2-1, 2.67 ERA) vs Aaron Cook (3-6, 3.66 ERA)

[Mit]

Giants Pound Out 20 Hits In 7-1 Win Against Rockies


Left: Travis Ishikawa slides home safe after a sacrifice fly by Jesus Guzman | Right: Jason Hirsh throws the ball inaccurately which allows Aaron Rowand to score from third

Game Story
The Giants had an offensive explosion in this game, as they pounded out 20 hits against the Rockies. 19 of those 20 hits were singles. The Rockies went up against one of the top pitchers in the NL in Barry Zito, who has been rocking an ERA under 2 for the first time in his career. He was also rocking a record that was over .500, which was a first since he joined the Giants.

The Giants were up from the get-go as they got 3 runs in the first 3 innings. They got 1 more in the 6th inning, 2 more in the 8th, and 1 more in the 9th inning. The Rockies finally put a run on the scoreboard, as pinch hitter Yorvit Torrealba smacked a Barry Zito fastball into the right-field stands. Zito allowed 2 more hits in the inning until he was pulled from the game. Bob Howry came into the game. He allowed a hit that loaded the bases with no outs. He got Garrett Atkins to fly out, but the ball was not hit far enough to score Jose Vidro from 3rd. Brad Hawpe came up to the plate and he grounded into a fielder's choice, which kept the bases loaded with 2 outs, but did not score a run. Ian Stewart took the plate with a chance to make the lead smaller, but Bob Howry struck him out to get out of a bases loaded jam.

Pitching
Barry Zito (W, 7-3) - 8.0 IP | 5 H | 1 ER | 1 BB | 3 K | 1.50 ERA
Bob Howry - 1.0 IP | 1 H | 0 ER | 0 BB | 1 K | 1.74 ERA

Pitching
Jason Hirsh (L, 2-4) - 6.0 IP | 11 H | 4 ER | 4 BB | 3 K | 5.15 ERA
Josh Fogg - 3.0 IP | 9 H | 3 ER | 0 BB | 2 K | 6.46 ERA

Batting
RF Randy Winn: 2-6, R, SB (24)
SS Edgar Renteria: 2-6, R
LF Delmon Young: 2-6, RBI (40), K
CF Aaron Rowand: 4-6, 2 R, K
C Pablo Sandoval: 2-4, RBI (36), 2 BB
1B Travis Ishikawa: 2-6, 2B (13), 3 RBI (29)
2B Dallas McPherson: 3-5, R, K
3B Jesus Guzman: 2-4, SF (1), RBI (1)
P Barry Zito: 1-3, 2 BB

Batting
1B Todd Helton: 1-4
SS Troy Tulowitzki: 1-4
3B Garrett Atkins: 0-3, BB
RF Brad Hawpe: 1-4
LF Ian Stewart: 1-4, K
CF Carlos Gonzalez: 0-3
2B Ryan Raburn: 0-3, K
C Chris Iannetta: 0-2, 2 K
PH Yorvit Torrealba: 1-1, HR (4), RBI (12)
P Jason Hirsh: 0-1
PH Matt Murton: 0-1
PH Jose Vidro: 1-1


Player of the Game

CF Aaron Rowand

[mfbmike]

I think I see Jesus in the crowd.

hahah I saw that. Jesus, roughed up the rockies.

[Woy]

Travis Ishikawa has a huge fucking head in that picture.

Nice win.

[T.Dot]

Ishikawa looks like he's made out of Lego, lol.
I like the writeup as well and I'm happy your just doing the game updates instead of those two other ones cuz you'd be burnt out.
Good shit

[Rudi]

Take it easy bro...20 hits? christ

[Mit]

hahah I saw that. Jesus, roughed up the rockies.

Yeah. It was a pretty fun game for me. Not surprising though that I was able to hit that much off their #5 starter. I doubt my success will continue as I go up against Francis and Cook.

Travis Ishikawa has a huge fucking head in that picture.

Nice win.

Haha. I guess he does. And thanks.

Ishikawa looks like he's made out of Lego, lol.
I like the writeup as well and I'm happy your just doing the game updates instead of those two other ones cuz you'd be burnt out.
Good shit

lol. I don't see how he's made out of lego. And thanks man. I took your advice and stopped doing the game updates. I was kind of getting tired of doing them, too.

Take it easy bro...20 hits? christ

Haha. Yeah man.

Dayum 20 hits nukka.

lol. 19 of the 20 hits were singles, which is kind of sad.