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Kawakami: Tim Lincecum, San Francisco Giants are struggling
By Tim Kawakami
Mercury News Columnist
Posted: 06/11/2011 09:24:00 PM PDT
Updated: 06/12/2011 04:14:00 AM PDT
Symbolically, Tim Lincecum walked to the mound against Cincinnati on Saturday
as the Giants' last line of defense against the forces of panic and despair.
It's not quite fair to pile all that responsibility upon anybody's shoulders
in any single game in June, but there it was.
Freddy Sanchez had just gone down to a serious shoulder injury. Buster Posey
has been down and out for a few weeks, of course.The season is still young,
and the Giants are still clinging to first place in the National League West.
But if the Giants were going to have a chance to feel halfway good about
themselves this weekend, Lincecum was the one who had to start the party music.
And it did not happen.
Instead, after the Reds' 10-2 victory at AT&T Park, there was mostly thick
silence in the Giants' clubhouse.
"It's not about carrying the team, it's just being a large aspect of it, and
doing your job," Lincecum said after giving up seven earned runs in four-plus
innings, one of the worst outings of his glorious career.
"And I didn't do mine today."
What happens to the defending World Series champions if they can't hit, if they
don't have Posey, and if Lincecum isn't on top of his game?
We saw it Saturday -- the sense of anxiety was a tangible presence amid the
murmuring and the head-scratching in the stands.
Lincecum has done so much for this franchise, when he doesn't deliver, the air
gets mighty arid.
"I know it looked bad today," manager Bruce Bochy said. "We were off. Had a
horrible game. This doesn't happen very often. It just so happens it comes
right after Freddy's injury. These guys don't make excuses.
"These guys, they're not making excuses. "... It's up to us to keep fighting.
And these guys will."
Usually, the charge starts with Lincecum, of course.
But this was the fourth consecutive -- and easily the worst -- sluggish outing
for the two-time Cy Young winner, all dating to May 21, when Lincecum shut out
the A's.
In that game, Lincecum threw a season-high 133 pitches; that also was his last
start before the Giants lost Posey, Lincecum's trusted catcher, to a
devastating ankle injury in late May.
In his four starts since, Lincecum has a 7.66 ERA, and his season ERA has gone
from 2.06 to his current 3.41.
Lincecum had a similarly wobbly period last August, when he acknowledged some
adjustment issues going from Bengie Molina to Posey behind the plate.
By last September, though, Lincecum was in lock step with Posey and was nearly
perfect through the fall.
Right now, Lincecum is about as far from his September-October dominance as he
can get.
"I still feel strong," Lincecum said. "I don't feel unhealthy. I don't feel
like anything's bothering me. It's just simply getting back to being me. Just
driving to the plate, using the mechanics, keeping my rhythm.
"Kind of dumbifying myself, I guess you could say "... keeping it simple."
Lincecum was all over the place from the outset, and the Reds were disciplined
enough to make him pay; he threw 73 total pitches, only 36 for strikes.
He recorded only one strikeout, which, remarkably, is the lowest total of his
career. In 136 previous outings (135 as a starter) -- Lincecum had never
recorded fewer than two strikeouts and had averaged 7.4 strikeouts per
appearance.
That 133-pitch outing, in retrospect, sticks out like a sore statistical thumb.
"I don't feel like it's fatigue," Lincecum said when asked about the effects of
the May 21 game. "I don't feel like I'm getting tired. I don't feel like
anything's broken. I just feel like it's a matter of just getting back to being
me."
That, perhaps, could suggest Lincecum has been thinking a little more on the
mound now that he's throwing to Eli Whiteside, not Posey.
In the third inning, there might have been a sign of some disconnect -- with a
runner on third, Lincecum threw a darting off-speed pitch that hit the dirt but
looked stoppable.
Whiteside missed the ball, it skipped to the backstop, Brandon Phillips scored,
putting the Reds up 3-0 and putting a scowl on Lincecum's face.
Has the catcher change affected Lincecum at all?
"Not really," Lincecum said. "Not at all. I mean, when you go out there,
whether it's with Whitey or (Chris) Stewart, you have to go out there and make
pitches."
Bochy said he continues to have the utmost confidence in Whiteside but added
that he might get Stewart in there with Lincecum if the schedule works out
right.
You count up all of the Giants' woes, and you do have to ask: How much has to
go wrong for them to be knocked out of first place?
At some point, it probably will come down to Lincecum, the Giants' other key
pitchers, and the refortifying of their last line of defense.
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一場如同噩夢般的比賽
當全隊最好的三個打者都進了DL
而大家心之所繫的ACE竟然投出生涯最糟的一場先發
(一早醒來看到BOX的時候還以為MLB.COM被駭客入侵...
這怎麼可能會是Timmy的成績!?)
就是這種結果
今天Timmy的好球率相當低(73/36)
壞球對紅人打者完全沒引誘性
(只有首打席三振有兩球揮空
其他打者根本懶得揮
都是看著讓裁判判壞球)
當然 Timmy都會告訴你他很好完全不會累
投不好都是因為自己球速出不來
好球帶找不到的錯
我也認為最近的低潮有一大部分是他自己想太多
本來就很鳥 傷兵累累後更鳥的賽XX打線毫無攻擊性可言
投手群每次登板都肩負著連一分也掉不得的沉重壓力
而在投手丘上或巨人隊球迷心中都是最後一道防線的Timmy
在這種風雨飄搖的時候對自己的要求必定嚴苛到遠超過我們的想像
偏偏最近的對手又都是他的天敵
(對國民勝少敗多 紅人更是從沒贏過)
一心想力挽狂瀾卻總是適得其反
(今天他也承認最近這麼失常是心理問題)
下一場過橋打灣岸大戰的先發是很重要的觀察指標
Timmy生涯從沒在奧克蘭輸過球 戰績5勝0敗
而且看來運動家的近況比我們還要糟
要是還不能恢復水準那真的就麻煩大了
另一個教練和Timmy不想承認我個人卻覺得是大問題的是捕手
自從Posey不在了以後
盜壘抓不到
捕逸暴投掉分的情況經常發生
巨人是以投手戰力為中心的球隊
Whiteside跟Stewart實在不是當主戰捕手的料
所以我覺得現階段比起找打者
先把捕手的洞補起來比較重要
Anyway 幸好球季還長
我們還是國西第一
希望Sanchez明天好好加油
(別再BB比安打多了...)
至少要跟紅人打個二平
這樣下個系列戰跟響尾蛇正面交鋒的壓力也會比較小
如果Timmy最近的小低潮能召喚今年尾盤和季後賽更加鬼神的表現
也未嘗不是一種收穫^^
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