1/2 Season Review: The Best Games
by rhys on Jul 5, 2009 2:16 PM PDT
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PrintThis post, along with its brother (the worst games), serves as a recap of the best Giants games of the year so far at this halfway point. Please feel free to read up, look at the box scores, and vote copiously for the game you feel was the best so far.
April 7th, 2009 (Opening Day) – Giants 10, Brewers 6 – Travis Ishikawa hit a 3-run triple, and Randy Winn, Bengie Molina, and Aaron Rowand all homered. Only bad part was Lincecum staying in for only 3 innings. Notable: one of only four games this year where the Giants have been able to score 10 or more runs.
April 17th, 2009 – Giants 2, D-Backs 0 – Jonathan Sanchez actually pitched 6 2/3 innings of shutout ball, Andres Torres hit "the world’s fastest home run," and the Giants pulled themselves out of their season-opening 2-7 slide.
April 19th, 2009 – Giants 2, D-Backs 0 – Randy Johnson, Bob Howry, and Brian Wilson combined on a 1-hit shutout. Pablo "Sanchez" Sandoval went 3-4 and Fred Lewis was still hitting .395.
May 12th, 2009 – Giants 9, Nationals 7 – Pablo Sandoval hit a walk-off 3-run HR on a 2-2 pitch with two outs, complete with iconic bat-flip, and the Giants scored 7 of their 9 runs with two outs.
June 4th, 2009 – Giants 5, Nationals 1 – Randy Johnson won his 300th game, and Brian Wilson struck out 4 Nats for all of his 4 outs, preserving what was once a close 2-1 game.
June 12th, 2009 – Giants 3, Athletics 0 – Tim Lincecum pitched a complete game shutout and the offense was good enough.
June 23rd, 2009 – Giants 4, Athletics 1 – Timmy pitches another complete game and strikes out 12 A’s, Nate Schierholtz rips three hits.
June 29th, 2009 – Giants 10, Cardinals 0 – Some guy named Tim Lincecum pitches a complete-game 2-hit shutout, and the Giants offense explodes, touching a mysterious white pentagon many times.
First two games of the Astros series, July 3-4th, 2009 - Giants 22, Astros 0 - Tim Lincecum and Ryan Sadowski combine for 14 shutout innings, the Giants offense becomes suddenly potent, as Pablo Sandoval and Travis Ishikawa each go yard and 27 hits are produced, and the Astros sputter in every possible way, creating a perfect storm of delicious baseball.
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May 12 v. Washington
That game holds personal significance for me
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That also seems like the day that Panda broke out
The San Francisco Giants: Where old men go to die.
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 5, 2009 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
May 12th easily
followed by June 29th
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
The Panda walkoff was definitely the most exciting, but the Timmy CGSO was the most consistantly entertaining. I spent most of the Nats game swearing out the Giants for even being tied with the Nationals that long. It wasn’t exciting until the end, when Pablo launched the walkoff. The Cards game, on the other hand, was more thoroughly enjoyable because Tim cornholed the Cards the entire game. And so did the Giants offense. The Cards went home that day very, very sore.
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June 12th because it shut up some A’sshole fans.
BTW, the photo above may need to go. You can’t have a 15 year old dressed like that. That is pretty close to child porn.
Where's the Matt Cain love?
The shutout (although not a CG) against the Mets was pretty cool. I voted for the June 12th game though, since I was at that one.
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Also
Matt Cain’s CG against the Mariners since it was the only game the Giants won in that series, and it was the first CG for the Giants for the season (I think).
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I vote for the Matt Cain shutout of the Mets, but mainly because I was there and snagged a Timmy bobblehead.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
With me there, Kevin Frandsen played a solid SS and hit some hard grounders. Without me there, Kevin Frandsen is playing in Fresno. To quote Grant, “That’s not me talking; that’s science.”
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
I voted June 12
Tim was magic that game.
I didn’t vote for the Panda walkoff game b/c the game kinda sucked until that moment. We had a 5-1 lead going to the 7th and allowed 6 friggin’ runs in the 7th and 8th. But I guess we just recall the spectacular ending.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 5, 2009 7:09 PM PDT reply actions
I voted for the Panda game, but I have to stick up for RJ’s 300th Win, in part because I was there and it was really a fun atmosphere (for the couple hundred there) and it was also pretty consistently entertaining, especially the 8th inning with the controversial strike 3 call on Dunn. So yeah for Randy.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
I voted 6.29
Timmy best start ever + offensive explosion. No drama, just dominance.
by positiveuphemism on Jul 5, 2009 8:39 PM PDT reply actions
May 10
I just like beating the Dodgers.
The timing couldn’t have been better for the San Francisco Giants, who came into Dodger Stadium for a three-game series just one day after Manny Ramirez(notes) received a 50-game suspension for using a banned drug.
The Giants took two of three against their archrivals, who were off to their best start in 26 years. In Sunday’s series finale, Randy Winn(notes) hit a tiebreaking two-run single with the bases loaded in the 13th inning and finished with four hits in San Francisco’s 7-5 victory.
The defending NL West champion Dodgers are 1-3 since their slugging left fielder was suspended.
Dude...
That game totally should have been added.
That was a crazy exciting game, and they beat the bums.
by AmorVincitOmnia on Jul 6, 2009 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
June 23
I was there with my #55 jersey!
For two of the last three trips I made to San Francisco, the Giants were on the road the entire time. At least this last trip I got to see them – and Tim! – in Oakland.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 6, 2009 9:10 AM PDT reply actions
We were in Jamaica for the Panda walkoff, but I saw the highlights on ESPN without knowing the outcome. Even seeing it like that, I was hollerin’ with excitement.
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I didn’t know there were pandas in Jamaica.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
Yah mon!
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by victor frankenstein on Jul 6, 2009 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions
It's too bad
that Panda’s best offensive games were ones that the Giants lost.
If the Giants would have ended up beating the Angels and the Brewers in those games, they would have definitely been added to this list.
June 23...
Timmy got back to back double plays to end the inning in consecutive innings on the way to a complete game 12k performance.. you have no idea how much i was talking while i was at that game." DOUBLE PLAY AGAIN?? HEARTBREAAAAK IN OAKLANDD, HEARTBREAAAAK IN OAKLANDD "
After the cheers for Giambi’s HR, I started chanting “WE’RE STILL WINNING.” The GIDP by Garciaparra was the best – they brought him in to pinch hit. AthLOLtics
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 6, 2009 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
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