He went 5.2 IP, allowing three strikeouts and six walks. That's a BB/K of 2.0...how often had Lincecum had more walks than strikeouts in a game, coming into today?
| Date | Tm | Opp | Rslt | App,Dec | IP | H | R | BB | SO | HR | GSc |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-07-20 | SFG | LAD | W 7-5 | GS-5 | 4.2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 29 |
| 2010-05-31 | SFG | COL | L 0-4 | GS-6 ,L | 5.2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 41 |
| 2009-09-20 | SFG | LAD | L 2-6 | GS-5 ,L | 4.0 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 33 |
| 2009-08-18 | SFG | CIN | W 8-5 | GS-6 | 6.0 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 39 |
| 2008-06-01 | SFG | SDP | W 4-3 | GS-7 | 7.0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 63 |
| 2007-06-08 | SFG | OAK | L 3-5 | GS-5 | 4.1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 41 |
Just six times. Except this time, he set a career high in BB/K in a game (2), and allowed more hits (9), home runs (2), and runs (7) than he did in any of those other starts. He had a game score of 20 tonight, his career-low. His game FIP was 9.64, and his game tERA was 10.50. I think you get the gist of it: worst start of his career.
I will say this, too. Lincecum shouldn't have been left in to face Carlos Gonzalez. He just didn't have it tonight, and that was painfully apparent. In a tied game, with Jeremy Affeldt warming up in the bullpen, why not bring him in to face CarGo with two outs?
Whatever. This was a blue-moon occurrence. Lincecum, once or twice a year, has an ugly start like this, and I'm fine with losing those one or two games a year.
Anyway, some more notes --
- I approve of Nate Schierholtz starting in right field. A home run and a couple of walks today. This was, in fact, his first two-walk game ever. Tim Lincecum already has two career two-walk games...
- The Giants grounded into four double plays in this game. Interestingly enough, Miguel Tejada was not responsible for any of them.
- Mark DeRosa looked awful tonight.
- Our friends over at Snow Woulda Had It! are hosting a live game chat on Thursday...go check it out.
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