Giants keep rolling (wahoo!)

My San Francisco Giants (62-45) are playing so well right now. They just swept the hated Los Angeles Dodgers (54-52) and just pounded the Colorado Rockies (55-51) in Denver 10-0 tonight. They've won four straight and 8 of 10. The offense is rocking it as evidenced by Pat Burrell's game winning two run home run in the 8th inning on Saturday and Edgar Renteria's two-run triple Sunday night. The pitching is doing great and the offense just continues to roll.

The Giants acquired right-handed reliever Ramon Ramirez from the Red Sox (61-46) and left-handed reliever Javier Lopez from the Pirates (37-69) in exchange for pitcher Joe Martinez and outfielder John Bowker. I'm really sad to see Bowker, who was the opening day right fielder for the Giants, leave. Bowker was tearing up pitching in Triple-A with a high average and lots of home runs. I think he'll play well for the Pirates and has a lot of potential. It's too bad he hasn't recognized it with the Giants yet. I have to admit that I was initially upset when Andres Torres was getting starts over Bowker this year, but I'm not anymore. Torres is having a great year as a lead-off hitter and is among the league leaders in extra base hits. It's really cool after he spent several years in the minor leagues that he's having such success now. It's a true feel good story and I think he was a big part of why the Giants felt they could include Bowker in the deal for Lopez.

Phillies (58-48) first baseman twisted his ankle on Sunday against the Nationals (47-60) and has been placed on the disabled list. Hopefully he only misses a couple of weeks and the Phils can weather the storm because they won't be making the playoffs without him. They are only two games back of the Braves (60-46) in the NL East right now.

I'm pretty dang excited that the Rays (67-39) have overtaken the Yankees (66-40) for the AL East lead although there is still a lot of baseball to be played. There are some good races out there in pretty much all of the divisions with the exception of the AL West where the Rangers (61-44) have a commanding eight game lead over the Athletics (53-52).