Tonight's game lasted so long, my first game story missed the early edition. I'll present it to you here, something to chew on until the final version makes it on the Gate:
By Henry Schulman
Denver – Sometime between now and Tim Lincecum's next start Monday night against Roy Halladay and the Philadelphia Phillies, he and his coaches need to ask and answer a lot of questions to divine why the Arizona and Colorado used him as a pinata in his first two starts.
Before they do, they will all have to catch their breaths after Wednesday night's Coors Field Mass-a-cree, a 17-8 Rockies romp that featured a nuclear-core meltdown by the Giants' pitching staff, 12 runs and 17 hits allowed by the teams' Opening Day starters and Brian Wilson's attempting to "save" an eight-run deficit because he had not pitched and needed an inning.
He allowed a run.
Colorado's 17 runs and 22 hits were the most allowed by the Giants in the Bruce Bochy era. The pounding also assured that the Giants, now 1-4, will start their home schedule Friday with a losing record.
The Giants engineered a great comeback, though it was buried in the final score. They scored seven runs in the fourth inning to fill a 6-0 hole that Lincecum dug in the shortest start of his major-league career.
The Giants' celebration barely subsided before the Rockies used an Emmanuel Burriss throwing error to launch a three-run rally against Guillermo Mota in the bottom half to retake the lead 9-7.
Mota left the game in the fifth, which turned into a seven-run Rockies bonanza, mostly at the defense of a defenseless Jeremy Affeldt.
If it matters, the Rockies scored their 14th run when the Giants botched a rundown play between third and home after a throw from the outfield skipped away. That also opened the door for runs 15 and 16. Somewhere in the mayhem, Brett Pill was charged with two errors on one play.
Lincecum lasted 2 1/3 innings and owes rookie Dan Otero for his run count being as low as six. Otero relieved Lincecum with the bases loaded and got Rockies starter Jeremy Guthrie to hit into a double play.
Lincecum faced 17 Rockies and allowed four singles, two doubles, two walks and a pair of Carlos Gonzalez triples. In two starts he has been battered for 11 earned runs in 7 2/3 innings. He has surrendered five first-inning runs, three fewer than he did in 33 starts last year.
Thus far this year, Giants starters not named Barry Zito have allowed 20 earned runs in 17 2/3 innings.
However, Lincecum did not fall to 0-2 for the first time in his career because of the thunder the Giants unleashed on Guthrie in the next half inning.
The Giants' 6-0 deficit became a 7-6 lead before you could say, "Why did Timmy cut 4 inches off his hair like that? He looked hella cool the way he was."
Nate Schierholtz and Brandon Crawford homered to start the seven-run fourth, for Schierholtz the first of two. Burriss singled and stole second, Angel Pagan walked and the Giants sent Guthrie to the bench with an RBI single by Melky Cabrera and Pablo Sandoval's second double that cut Colorado's lead to 6-4.
The Rockies turned to lefty Matt Reynolds, who walked pinch-hitter Gregor Blanco to load the bases ahead of a two-run single by Hector Sanchez, who started because Buster Posey was down with shingles. (He flied out as a pinch-hitter and is expected to start Thursday.). Schierholtz gave the Giants their short-lived lead with a sacrifice fly.
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