Funny what a half a dozen runs before you throw a pitch can do for you!  Ask JONATHAN SANCHEZ about it, as that is what took place on a cool, breezy evening at AT &T Park as the Giants downed the struggling NEW YORK METS 10-2.  It was the most runs that Giants have scored all season...A lead off homer by RANDY WINN, the 14th of his career (who holds the record?,) and a two run shot by three day veteran Brian Horowitz highlighted the inning...Mets pitcher Oliver Perez went just 1/3 of an inning, lasting just 36 pitches...Steady AARON ROWAND contributed a double passed third sacker David Wright...Bengie Molina had the 1,000th hit of his career...The bullpen, mostly Billy Sadler mopped up..I hope it's not too early for this and I'm not saying the Jints a

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I guess it is inevitable the old adage that says 'What goes around, comes around.  Certainly seems that the Giants were listening to that one, as they blasted the Mets 10-2 one nite and the Mets turned around and almost blasted them the next night 9-6.  On the surface that doesn't seem like a blasting, but before Travis Denker blasted a three run homer in the bottom of the 9th, his first of his career, it was 9-3, which would qualify as a blasting.  Who knows...60 percent of the players who responded to a recent Sports Illustrated poll named AARON ROWAND as the toughest player in the majors.  He has taken some mighty strong knocks lately, but is out there everyday.  He may be one Giant that goes to New York for the All-Star game in July.  He is hitti

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4th Straight for Giants over Nationals...Four days and nights in hot, sweltering Washington DC, proved an elixir for the Giants, as they posted their fourth straight win over the Nationals.  They had previously won three in a row on three occasions, but this was their first streak of four...Matt Cain threw six innings Monday evening, BARRY ZITO went five on Sunday.  He left behind by one run, but the team picked him up as he won his second game of the year....Ray Durham-one of the old guys, continued his hot hitting, with four hits on Sunday and a couple more tonite.  His average is over .300 for the first time this season...John Bowker smacked a grand slam on Saturday, hit a two run sot on Sunday...Randy Winn continued his hot hitting to keep his average over .300

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The brooms were out at AT&T Park over the weekend, it's just that they were carried by fans of the cross-bay Oakland Athletics.  The A's swept the first three of the six games the two teams will play this year.  (The other three are in two weeks at the Mcafee Coliseum...The A's pitching were blue chip, showing that Billy Beane knows how to pick them...The rotation was somewhat off blue chip, but very competitive.  Matt Cain Struck out 11 on Saturday evening, one off his career best...Kevin Corriea came back from an oblique strain and pitched remarkably well for his first major league appearance in nearly two months...And Barry was Barry.  He was in command of most of his pitches, but ended up issuing those dreader walks...The Boo Birds were out!...Now what I really think:  All of these Boo Birds, many who were probably cut from their 8th grade team, I always won dered if they could do better?  There are always references to the big contract--$126 million over seven years.  With the All-Star game coming up in one month, maybe Manager Bruce Bochy needs to step back and look at the staff ace and say maybe that isn't the spot for him.  Perhaps he would be better suited as #3, as in Oakland.  The pressure would certainly be off him...Tim Lincecum, wh  the staff ace, may be suited for that role...The scores of the three games were:

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Scuttlebutt around the league has the Giants signing Rick Peterson as a special consultant to work with BARRY ZITO on his woeful season.  Peterson was fired as pitching coach with the New York Mets at the same time they fired Manager Willie Randolph and almost the entire coaching staff.  Peterson was a private pitching coach for Zito prior to his big league career, as well as pc in Oakland during most of Zito's stay there...Barry fell to 2-11, as he gave up 5 runs in two innings versus Detroit on Wednesday.  It was the second shortest outing of his career.  Now what I really think: It burns me up when fans are yelling all these insults at Zito when he under-performs.  I am in a habit at yelling back At them: "So you could do better?" 

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Hi readers, I'm back!!!!!...Spent the last week getting married to my now lovely wife and a honeymoon in beautiful San Diego.  Both were great!!!!!...Now, to the business at hand...Giants win 2 of 3 from the A's, taking back some of the boasting rights that they lost by being swept two weeks ago.  Pitching* was way better and so was the offense for the most part...Would it surprise you that TIM LINCECUM threw another great game on Saturday evening at the Colosseum, going 7 strong innings, and striking out 11.  Those K's gives him114 K's in 109.2** inn ngs.  His 9 wins ties him for fourth in the league and his ERA of 2.38 puts him near the top for the year... BENGIE MOLINA and AARON ROWAND continue to be among the tops in the league, with .307 for 9th and

.297 for 17th.  Not too far behind ROWAND is the ever present RANDY WIN N, at 21st with a .295 average...Now, what I really think: Randy Winn is the best of the everyday players on the team right now.  He has been around .300 all year, plays pretty much everyday and contributes all the time.  He needs to cut down on his strikeouts.  He may be trade bait the next month with the non-waiver deadline approaching.  Enjoy him while you can...JOHN BOWKER has come out of his month long slump and is producing again.  He has 8 homers...But my question is: How come the team gave up so early on Daniel Ortmeier, but installed Bowker at first base and stuck with him during his troubled times?  Only the Shadow knows...Giants still need a 3rd sacker that is not a last minute emergency.  Angel Vilona is still three years away...Hey, that commercial where the guy is standing over a skillet of frying eggs and says; "I don't know where a spatula is, but I know where the Giants are..." was made for me.  Ask my wife...

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