My Dawber is Down

This last game hit me, like it did shortly thereafter for Stan Conte after he asked A.J. Pierzynski how he felt after a wild pitch hit A.J. in his cup (as reported by Chronicle, I believe it was Bruce Jenkins, A.J.'s response was to knee Conte and I think he said something either, "Like that" or "Here's how it felt"; A.J. refutes that this happened, claiming such a thing couldn't be surpressed, but I think it is telling that no one came to support him on this, it would have been easy to refute by the other person in the story or for any teammate anywhere to say that he didn't believe that A.J. could do such a thing).

What a great game Lowry pitched! The previous start had me a little worried, but Lowry does appear to be back, that's 3 games in 4, maybe it takes up 4 months of the season to get his feel for his changeup to be just right. He had a masterful game yesterday, much like the games he pitched last August when he won Pitcher of the Month award.

But no, in spite of Lowry manning up and showing what's he made of, the offense could not do anything at all. Then, with the heart of the lineup coming up, Vizquel takes the risky route of stealing against Yorvit, who we should have known had a gun of a arm given he couldn't hit, and got thrown out.

On top of that, the game before, Bonds got thrown out by the umpire in the bottom of the ninth and the team behind 5-2 and after he just hit a HR in the 7th. The crowd got into it, throwing garbage onto the field and delaying the game 11 minutes for the cleanup, with the Rockies coming off the field.

Yet, after the first inning run they scored, there was no passion that the ejection should have caused. No miracle homerun. No clutch hit. Nothing.

And that's what I feel right now, nothing. I hope they can get things going because this is the time, they need to stand up and show that they are capable or things can go badly quickly.

Go Giants!