The San Fracisco Giants won their second game in a row for the first time this season as they beat the San Diego Padres by the score of 1-0.  In the bottom of the 9th inning, Dan Ortmeier doubled over Jim Edmonds head and scored Rajai Davis who was pitch running.

Now that is what you call an exciting win!  The Giants pitching deserves credit for keeping them in the game and only allowing four total hits to the Padres.  Jonathan Sanchez pitched six innings and struck out ten batters while only giving up three hits.  Merkin Valdez, Jack Taschner, and Tyler Walker all pitched in relief.  Walked ended up picking up the win as he pitched the 9th inning.

The Giants record now stands at 3-6 on the season.

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Bengie Molina hit two homeruns against the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night, but it is the second one that everyone is talking about.  Molina took Cla Meredeith deep in the 11th inning to give the Giants the 3-2 victory over the Giants.

Earlier in the game Molina took Randy Wolf yard in the 2nd inning to give the Giants a 1-0 lead.  Randy Winn then doubled in the 3rd inning and scored Brian Bocock.  That was all the scoring that would happen for the Giants, but it was just enough to get the victory.

Starting pitcher Tim Lincecum pitched six innings and allowed seven hits and one earned run while striking out seven Padre batters.  Good performance out of Linceum on Tuesday night as he got the no decision.  Brad Hennessey picked up his first win of the season.

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The San Francisco Giants continue to play bad as they lost to the San Diego Padres by the score of 8-4.  If the Giants hadn’t scored three runs in the bottom of the 9th inning, it would have really been a blowout fo the Giants.  What a dissapointing home opener for the Giants and their fans today.  I think it is going to be like this all season long however.

Start Matt Cain got rocked early in the ballgame and put the Giants in a big hole.  Cain only pitched 4.1 innings giving up seven hits, four earned runs, four walks, and five strikeouts.  The big shot came off of Adrian Gonzalez’s bat when he hit a two run homerun in the first inning.

One bright spot for the Giants was Bengie Molina who tallied three RBI’s on the day.

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The SanFrancisco Giants made it intersting Saturday against the Milwaukee Brewers as they battled the entire game to take the lead from the Brewers but it was the Brewers who held on for the 5-4 victory.

The Giants were held hitless until give innings by Manny Parra.  In the 6th inning, the Giants got some hits and ended up scoring two runs to make it a 3-2 ballgame, but they wouldn’t get that close again until Ray Durham hit a solo homerun in the 8th inning.

Giants starter Kevin Correia gave up four runs and six hits in six innings.  He needed to have a better outing then that.  Like I’ve blogged about before, if the Giants pitching staff can’t keep the opposing team to under four runs, this Giants team isn’t going to win very many ballgames.

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The SanFrancisco Giants continue to play bad ball in the 2008 season as they lost to the Milwaukee Brewers 13-4 on Friday.  The Giants got behind by eight runs in the fifth inning, and was not able to come back from that big of deficit.  If the Giants can’t hold an opponent to under four runs, I don’t think they will win very many games this year.  They just don’t have the offense to score five plus runs a game.

Jonathan Sanchez pitched the first four innings on Friday and gave up seven hits, seven earned runs, two walks, and struckout 8 Brewers batters.  He definaly had some troubles as you can tell by giving up seven earned runs in only four innings.

Brad Hennessey didn’t fare to much better when he came in out of the bullpen.  Hennessey allowed six hits and five earned runs in an inning of action.

Giants pitchers are going to have to do alot better job of pitching if they want to win 60 games this season.  I really think they are going to be in for a very long season.