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Hall out. Single by someone. Podsednik up. Pods pops out, Cunningham up.

Linden singles to right. Throw home is late. Run scores. 9-8 Giants take the lead.

Justin Noler PH for Klesko and strikes out.

Cintron grounds out to first. QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 21, 2007 -> 03:30 PM) BA = 39 plate appearances. Terrero = 30 plate appearances. Erstad: 57 plate appearances. Captain Sisco in to pitch. De La Rosa leadoff single. Sac Bunt. De La Rosa to 2nd. Figueroa did the bunt. Awful lot of good bunts by the Giants today.

Sun Yoo Kim, or something like that, in to pitch.

Full count on Iguchi, 2 outs, bases loaded... Iguchi ties the game. Booyeah. Farmer gets to say slam and mean it.

Wikipedia walks. QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Mar 21, 2007 -> 03:20 PM) Rongey with a interesting comment, for once. "Jobs are probably already decided, they havent told everyone because they want to keep people competing" Well Duh, like we didn't already know that about CF.

Crede flies out to Center. Cunningham takes 3rd.

Podsednik draws a walk. Pods steals 2nd on the first pitch. The throw hit him. 2/2 running today. Go for 3rd Scott. Erstad takes a 4 pitch walk. Cunningham will run for him Thome lines a single to Center. Podsednik scores. 8-4 Giants. Farmer gets to say the word "Slam".

Terrero flies out on first pitch. QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 21, 2007 -> 03:13 PM) And he was 7.71 ERA in 2005 ST, I just saw. Looks like he just never pitches well in ST. Must be slow to get loose. To be totally fair...that was in 2.1 innings.

Whoever was up for the Giants groudns out to Iguchi. Inning.

First batter, think it was Alfonzo, flies out to RF. QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 21, 2007 -> 03:06 PM) I was hoping otherwise. But I am starting to wonder if there is something to that. Anyone know how Bobby threw in spring last year? Sh*tty. 6.55 ERA, 1.73 WHIP, 5 k's. Santos doubles over Podsednik's head. Oh, and Frandsen made an out, somehow.

Toby Hall with a lazy groundout. Jenks still in.

Cain finally wraps up. QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Mar 21, 2007 -> 03:00 PM) I would like to see our non 3-4-5 hitters get a better approach and make contact more. Put the f***ing ball in play, maybe something good can happen. No. Home Run Good. Kevin Corea, or something like that, in to pitch.

You know, for a second, I forgot this was the DirecTV thread and thought that it was the Mackowiak to the Brewers thread when I saw "The Deal is Done' on the forum front page.

Iguchi strikes out on a foul tip. Cintron lines a single into LF.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 21, 2007 -> 02:55 PM) How many PB and WP was that from Jenks in one inning??? That is worrisome. Either 2 or 3. AJ leads off with a lazy ground ball.

Wild pitch by Jenks, runner moves up to 3rd. Klesko strikes out swinging on a fastball. Chopper by LInden into CF. Run scores. 8-3 Giants. Niekro hits first pitch on ground to Iguchi. inning over, 3 runs scored.

Jenks gets ahead of Durham 0-2, then hits a ball over a diving Erstad in CF. De La Rosa scores. 7-3 Giants. QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 21, 2007 -> 02:47 PM) At least Jenks has been consistent this spring. I think you can say that about our entire pitching staff.

Roberts steals 2nd without a throw on a curveball. Winn hits a ball off Jenks's glove, Iguchi fields and retires winn. Roberts to 3rd, 1 out. Roberts scores on a passed ball. De La Rosa takes a quick walk. Cooper out to talk to Jenks. Coop not feeling well anyway.

QUOTE(Beltin @ Mar 21, 2007 -> 02:36 PM) Similar terrain and vegetation, too. You even get the impact craters. Big bad Bobby jenks on to Blow them away. Jenks gives Roberts the leadoff walk on 5 pitches.

Podsednik leads off the bottom of the 5th, works a decently long at bat, then grounds out to teh shortstop. The Ranger is in the booth. Erstad flies out to left. Thome takes a walk, and stays in the game. Thome to 2nd on a WP. When is the last time we actually hit a home run in an A game? Credepopsitup. Inningova.

Niekro singles to RF in front of Terrero. Klesko scores. 3 straight hits gives the giants a 4-3 lead. Alfonzo lines out to CF. Linden scores. 5-3 Giants. Frandsen flies out to Terrero. Inning over.

Linden doubles to the corner. 10 hits now for the Giants. 2nd and 3rd, 1 out. Niekro up.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 21, 2007 -> 02:20 PM) If so, he could make a solid guy to spell Thome, with PK at DH. But that means AJP has to play, so if its against a lefty, you only replace one of them instead of both. So I don't see that happening too often. I really wish they'd consider using Pablo as a DH against lefties. With the power righthanded bats we already have (Dye, Crede, PK, Gooch), our DH does not necessarily have to be a power guy. There is no reason at all not to give Erstad 2 days out of every 10 at first. 1 of those days Konerko sits, the other day Konerko plays DH. Then give Erstad/Mack 1 more day out of every 10 in Right Field. That's exactly how he should be used. Durham grounds out 3 unassisted. QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Mar 21, 2007 -> 02:21 PM) Why Mack can play 1st also. I trust Hall at 1st, with Kong as the DH, and AJ as the catcher more than I trust Thome hitting against a lefty. AJ put up an Erstad-like .623 OPS against lefties last year in a pretty good overall year. Still hit .273 against lefties, but he just wasn't effective against them. 141 at bats. Klesko singles up the middle on a full count. Singleton saying Vazquez is struggling with his mechanics.