Giants finally beat the Padres!!!!

Who knew it.  The Giants can actually beat the Padres, they are now 2-8 against the Friars this year.  

The good news is that the Giants managed to hang in there against Mat Latos, despite the home plate umpire doing his best to screw the Giants.  

Latos, who by the way may be a jerk, but no doubt is legit.  He is going to be a big pain in the ass for the Giants in the years to come.  This season, against the Giants, he has a 0.96 ERA.  in four starts and that includes today's game.

Back to the home plate umpire.  I'm not sure if he is from San Diego but he may of called the worst game I've seen all season.

In the bottom of the seventh inning, he called out Andres Torres on a third strike that was so far off the plate.  It had to be at least a foot outside.  If Torres would have been hitting left-handed it would of hit him.  As you can see from the screenshot of my MLB app from my iPhone that actually none of the strikes were actually strikes.

Either way, the Giants overcame the questionable calls and won the game with his legs.  After catching eleven innings, Buster Posey got a lead off double in the bottom of the 11th and then Pablo Sandoval got his second intentional walk of the game.  Then Juan Uribe came up and hit a single that allowed the hustling Posey to score from second.  GAME OVER!!

Pablo Sandoval may be working his way out of his slump.  He went 1 for 3 with a homerun and two walks.  The homerun was one for the ages.  It was no where near the strike zone and he tomahawked it into McCovey cove.  When asked if the pitch was in the strike zone Panda said "it was high."  Those were the kind of hits that last year's Sandoval hit.

If the Giants are going to make a run at 1st place they will need that Panda back.

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Tomorrow, the Giants will go for the series win with Tim Lincecum (11-6, 4.31) on the mound against LHP Wade LeBlanc (6-10, 3.51).  This is the kind of pitcher the Giants should beat but this season it has been easier said than done.  For some reason, they have allowed pitchers like this to make them look foolish.

Lincecum will look to get back his old form after deciding that he is going to scrap the new pitching delivery and go back to vintage Timmy.