Giants win home opener in thrilling fashion

The San Francisco Giants won their home opener Friday in a thriller, beating the Atlanta Braves 5-4 in 13 innings. The Giants trailed most of the game, and down 4-2 in the 9th Eugenio Velez doubled to open the inning. After Aaron Rowand was retired, Edgar Renteria hit a game-tying two-run homerun to left field off Braves closer Billy Wagner. Renteria is off to a blazing start and what a difference a year and a healthy body make. It got me pretty excited to say the least. In the 13th, Juan Uribe walked, stole second and took third on an errant throw from catcher Brian McCann. McCann claimed he was interfered with from Rowand's backswing, and I can honestly say that he probably had a point. Later in the at-bat Rowand grounded one into the hole at shortstop and beat the throw to first as Uribe came home with the winning run. I'm glad the call went the Giants' way. The Giants are now 4-0 and the last undefeated team in baseball. It feels good to type that. The Braves drop to 2-2. It was a great home opening day, you can't ask for much more than that. Just another to reason for me to love the Giants and love baseball. The Giants (Todd Wellemeyer) and Braves (Derek Lowe, 1-0) go at it again tonight at 8:05 p.m. MT on MLB Extra Innings and mlb.tv. In other notes, Braves manager Bobby Cox was ejected from the game yesterday for a record 154th time in his career.