What a fiasco

If you were there, I guess it was entertaining in a strange way. The Giants were leading 2-1 at the end of five with Matt Cain on the mound. They went on to scored eight runs today but the pitchers let in 13, including six by Cain. Walker and Wilson were worthless.

Attendance was only 34,000 -- not surprising given that the team is now on a 5-game losing streak and playing like a team that's going to lose 100 games. Projected record -- 63-99.

It helps me to write that the Dodgers also got hammered today by the Angels. But back to what happened at Mays Field: I'm not a big fan of these kind of games, where teams seem to score at will, unless the Giants come out on the winning end. Otherwise, they're frustrating as all get out in that they take forever and they always make me think, "Why can't you save the offense for a 2-1 game, when you really need it?"

The best example I can remember came on Opening Day in 1983, when the Giants lost 16-13 to the Padres on a bitterly cold day at the Stick. Krukow was the starting pitcher and didn't get out of the second inning. It was fun to watch the Giants score 13 but it was murder to watch the Padres hammer away for the first 6 innings. The worst moment was in the 5th as the Padres scored 8 -- when reliever Mike Chris managed to throw the ball 10 feet over the head of the first baseman on a 25-foot throw on a tapper back to the mound.

The only other real compensation I remember was booing Steve Garvey; cheering like a madman (I was a lot younger) as the Giants cut the 16-10 lead in half in the bottom of the 8th; and watching Andy McGaffigan and Gary Lavelle close the Padres out in the last 3 innings.