Gotta Go - Game On

I’ll be heading out to the park in a few minutes for the third time this week to see Barry’s endless pursuit of that fat f***, as Mickey Mantle described the Babe in the movie 61*. Yesterdays attempt fell flat again, and so did the Giants until Barry was taken out of the game.

Down 5-2 to the mastery of Aaron Sele, the Giants scored four in the 9th to beat Danys Baez and the Dodgers. It was great to watch the unhearalded and the slumping pull it off, with clutch hitting by Niekro, Greene, Dan Ortmeier (something special to remember when he heads back to Fresno) and Omar Vizquel. The Giants can reach .500 again and get out of last place with a win in the rubber game this afternoon.

I’m on a short clock here, so just a few random notes:

The Vargas boys have had an interesting, Bullinger-style weekend. Friday the Marlins’ Jason came in to replace starter Sergio Mitre who came out after 3 pitches and headed straight to the DL. Chalk up 3-1/3 innings, 6 hits, 7 earned runs and 3 walks. Amazingly, he didn’t get the loss.

Cousin Claudio did earn the loss for the DBacks against the Cards, pitching 3 innings even and giving up 8 hits, 8 earned runs and 3 walks. So the Vargas boys totaled 6-1/3 IP, 14 hits, 15 earned runs and 6 walks.

Give ‘em each a Bullinger.

Claudio gave up #19 for Big Al Pujols, whose average is back to .341. This guy is sick.

Hanley Ramirez – ROY?

Aaron Rowand – my hero. ROY? Definitely Web Gem of the Year.

Gotta go. Barry, let’s get it over with.