The turning point for the Orange and Black?

Man, what a game tonight! I was listening to the Oakland broadcast coming home from a long week at work and they were THRILLED at how the game started in the first -- Giants going down 1-2-3 and the A's scoring three off Tim Lincecum and having the bases loaded with no one out. They were gleeful that Shane Loux was already warming up in the pen and speculating that Lincecum was about to lose his spot in the rotation.

So Tim struck out the side. Yes, he did. You should have heard me, yelling "**** you" at the radio after each strikeout. Tim needed 42 pitches to get out of the first and then blanked the A's for the next five innings.

Lord knows, Tim may not be out of the woods yet but I'm thinking that he may have finally figured this out.

JC Parsons at Raising (Matt) Cain has a nice recap of the fine night. Here's the first paragraph --   

 This game, much like the pitching performance of Tim Lincecum, started like crap but finished just fine.  Hell, it ended a little bit better than just fine.  In a rather stunning ninth inning 4 run outburst, the Giants came back to take the opener in Oakland,  5-4.  A big win at a crucial time of year and especially sweet as it ends the horror of nine straight losses with Timmeh starting.  Shit, it was also the first time we won in that crappy stadium in two years!