Giants-Dodgers rivalry is back

Great game last night.  Probably one of the best games I have seen all year.  What is also great about last night’s game is it probably will build the rivalry back up to where it belongs.  Hatred between fans and hatred between players.

Prior to this game it didn’t seem like the “new” Giants really had much of an understanding what the rivalry meant.  Well, they were introduced last night when the beanball war began.

It began in the 5th inning when Lincecum threw high and tight to Kemp and then on the following pitch hit him.  Kemp to exception to that and appeared to walk towards the mound in which Lincecum responded by walking toward Kemp.  Since Kemp is a real wussy anyway nothing happened.  He was probably worried that if he got beat up by a 5′ 9″ pitcher that Rihanna would have broke up with him.




Then later in the 6th, Bautista knocked down Russell Martin but was not ejected even though both teams already had been given a warning.  The lack of ejection of Bautista caused Dodger bench coach Bob Schaefer to get irate and end up getting ejected.

In the following inning, Kershaw plunked Aaron Rowand and that caused both Kershaw and Torre to get ejected.  Although, that was the end of the beanballs that was not the end of the fun.

In the 9th with Broxton on the mound Don Mattingly, acting manager, made a mistake of leaving the mound and walking back up the mound which counted as two visits and therefore was required to remove Broxton.  This brought in a cold George Sherrill who gave a two-run double to Torres which gave the Giants the lead.

No doubt that this is not over and I would not be surprised to see it continue on tonights game when the Giants go for the sweep.