Category Archives: Postgame Wraps
Postgame Wrap: A Tale of Two Timmys
Tim Lincecum had trouble out of the stretch tonight.
The story tonight is Tim Lincecum. Wait, let me try that again. The stories tonight are Tim Lincecums.
Lincecum looked pretty bad today, but he looked great tonight. After giving up loud contact in the first, Timmy surrendered four runs on four hits (single, 2 doubles, home run) and a walk, and looked like he wasn’t fooling anybody.
Then the third inning came around, and everything had changed. His slider slid, his splitter split, his curveball curved, his changeup changed left, right, up and down. Aside from a double from Carlos Quentin – who went 3-for-4 with a double and two home runs – Lincecum sat down 12 of 13 with 8 strikeouts, all swinging. He looked like vintage Timmy, regardless of the velocity showing on the radar gun. He got whiffs with each of his pitches, including 6 on his slider, for 19 total.
Look at the five strikeouts below the zone, plus the one low in the zone, and the one challenge fastball up at the top. He threw junk at the hitters, and they were lining up to hack at pitches in the dirt. Thanks to BrooksBaseball.net for the graph.
Which reinforces just one thing: I have no idea what to think about Tim Lincecum. I just don’t.
Postgame Wrap: A Good Old-Fashioned Whoopin’
"Who the heck is Joe Mather?"
In lieu of a drawn-out preamble to this postgame wrap, let’s review briefly some things we learned today:
- Matt Cain, .500 pitcher, is good
- The Cubs are not
- Except Tony Campana
- Alfonso Soriano’s defense makes me want to shower
- Nobody fucks with DeJesus
- Buster Posey remains good
- Ryan Theriot occasionally makes contact with baseballs, and those baseballs occasionally find holes