The Giants (71-59) have lost the last two nights at home to the Diamondbacks (52-78) behind poor starting pitching from Tim Lincecum and Barry Zito. Zito in particular had a rough week. I feel for him, he really seems to put it all out there when he pitches. But the fact is that the starting pitching just has to be better or this team just isn't going anywhere. Bruce Bochy said as much after the game and even had a closed-door meeting with his starting pitchers, in which I can only imagine that he gave a sever chastisement that Zito said was deserved. Matt Cain goes tomorrow and he actually did have a solid start on Monday against the Reds (74-55) so hopefully he can build on that starting tomorrow at 2:05 p.m. MT.
The Giants trail the Phillies (72-57) by 1.5 games in the Wild Card chase and the Padres (76-52), who have dropped to in a row to the Phils, by 6 games in the National League West. The Wild Card in particular is very much in reach and even the divisional race isn't totally out of hand. There's a lot of baseball to be played and I think the Giants will at least make things interesting down the stretch.
In Washington D.C. tonight, Nationals (55-75) out fielder Nyjer Morgan went out of his way to bump into Cardinals (69-58) catcher Bryan Anderson as Morgan was crossing home plate to score. Anderson wasn't even blocking the plate and Morgan went out of his way to bump into him. Just a very unsportsmanlike play. That sort of thing is totally uncalled for. Morgan just seems like a total head case to me. The Nats defeated the Cards 14-5 in the game.
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