It was a game that the Giants of past years would never have won. Past Giants teams would look a gift horse in the mouth and begin pulling its teeth. Tonight's Giants team showed resilience on a night when ace pitcher Tim Lincecum wasn't his two-Cy Young award winning self. Timmy at one point reared back to throw the ball and it popped out of his hand as he began his motion, definitely not a "Freak-like" moment.
Tonight was a night for the Dodgers to spank the gift horse on the fanny causing it to mule kick'em in the forehead and knocking them out of the game.
I've never seen it but it happened in L.A. tonight; an interim manager goes to the mound to talk to his closer - turns and takes a few steps away from the mound after giving instructions - then turns and approaches the mound again as if he'd forgotten to mention something else. This is equivalent to a pitcher's balk and is penalized by removal of said pitcher from the game. The interim manager had goofed on a technicality. The replacement pitcher immediately gives up a second pitch blast to the wall by Giants left fielder Andres Torres as the visitors take the lead in the top of the ninth. One more run would score in the inning, the ninth inning, before the Dodger nightmare was over.
Earlier the Dodgers manager and starting pitcher were thrown out of the game for intentionally throwing at a Giants batter. The first Giants hitter in the game had been hit by a pitch. It was the beginning of the end for Da Bums.
And so it was that on a night when the Giants seemed dead in the water against a division rival in southern california that the scrappy 2010 San Francisco club found a way to turn a 5-1 deficit into a 7-5 victory over the L.A. Dodgers.
This game will go down as one of the greatest Giants wins over the Dodgers in years. So sweet and full of drama. Posey continues to deliver.
Go Giants!
