Giants sweep Astros, look ahead to home opener

Today my beloved San Francisco Giants completed the sweep of the Houston Astros with a 10-4 win to move to 3-0 on the year. The three starters for the series -- Tim Lincecum, Barry Zito and Matt Cain combined for a 1.37 ERA in over 19 innings pitched between the three of them. Edgar Renteria looked awesome today with five hits and looks to be a lot healthier than last year, which should help our offense to be more potent. Newcomers Aubrey Huff and Mark DeRosa look to be off to good starts as well, and my boy John Bowker hit a 2-run homerun today which was good to see. Hopefully he'll see the bulk of the time in right field as he seems to have a really good stroke going so far. I'm trying not to get too excited as I know the Astros probably aren't going to be very good this year, but it's always nice to start the year 3-0. And of course it's nice that the Dodgers dropped to 0-2 with a 4-3 10-inning loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. More good news came in the Rockies dropping to 1-2 with a 5-4 loss at Milwaukee to the Brewers. The Diamondbacks beat the Padres 5-3 in Phoenix to take two out of three in their season-opening series. The Giants' home opener is Friday at 2:35 p.m. MT against the Atlanta Braves, who should provide a stiffer test for the orange and black. The starters are Jonathan Sanchez for the Giants and Tim Hudson for the Braves. The game is available on MLB Network, MLB Extra Innings and mlb.tv.