Steve Holm: pinch-hitter extraordinaire, clutch, good defensive backstop, and ripe for puns. He's my kinda guy.
The Holm recovered from a case of the squirts (TMI?) to hit a pinch-hit double in the top of the ninth that delivers a second tying run after 8 donuts. Durham and Vizquel back it up in the tenth to get the boys a much needed come from behind series clincher.
The Giants leave Colorado in third place, after showing, at least for one warm Denver day, miles and miles of heart...
Quick observations:
- Give credit to Dirty for battling in a start where he could have given up a huge amount of runs. He showed some guts, but needs to tighten it up. The Rockies shot themselves in the foot a number of times.
- Tyler Walker is the winning pitcher and looks to have recovered nicely from a recent rough stretch with a 1-2-3 through the heart of the lineup, which absolutely killed the Giants this series. Good to see him back.
- Brian Wilson makes the tenth inning save less dramatic than last night, but still shows the need to run up 3 ball counts on literally every hitter, walking one - paging Dave Righetti...
- Vizquel really does do all the little things. Made the game-winning sac fly look easy and got the rally started in the ninth. I'll happily eat crow on my earlier assessment of the guy.
On the other hand, I will never ever acknowledge the skill of Durham.
Comment-starter: What's the deal with Brian Wilson? Should we let him take his lumps? Is this Dave Righetti's fault? Can we assign blame to more people, just because we can?
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Holm Is Where The Heart Is
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2 comments:
Winning game day posts go up so much sooner than the losing ones...
Brian Wilson is likely as emo as his Pet Sounds equivalent. But frankly, we don't have much else to work with (how is this guy leading the NL in saves by the way?). It would be nice to see a combination of Hinshaw and Wilson as our 8th and 9th door slammers, that is unless Wilson blows up.
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