Oh Mandy
Did Tim McCarver really say that the Giant crowd know how to yell “Barry” because of Barry Manilow?
#IWritetheSongs
It would greatly please me if Buck and McCarver would stop talking about Justin Verlander sometime soon…
OMG!!! Three home runs for Pablo Sandoval!!!
History!
A rare feat indeed - congrats Pablo!!
And that, America, is why Giants fans wear silly panda hats to games.
Do the Tigers still think they’re scrimmaging?
Anyone wanna lay odds on Pablo getting a fourth?
I’ll be surprised if he sees another pitch anywhere near the strike zone.
Not that it would stop him, of course 
Rare feat? It’s been two whole years since this hasn’t happened.
This should have a smilie, but I think they’re silly.
Well other than pitching,hitting,fielding,managing and dumb luck the Tigers are looking good.
Ballgame!
Well I think we found Valverde’s niche: Pitching to pitchers.
A great game tonight by Zito, Lincecum and the Giants. But tomorrow night, Bumgarner needs to bring his A game.
What a surprising and weird game that was. Verlander didn’t look terrible but he just didn’t have it, Pagan and Scutaro worked some really good at-bats and Sandoval just killed it. Verlander looked stunned that second homer left the park. I think the cameras showed him saying “wow” afterward, like he thought it was just a fly to left and it kept carrying.
I’m not sure where all of that leaves things for tonight’s game. The Giants got to Verlander and they have to feel like everything is going their way and Detroit looked almost totally hapless, but on the other hand, it’s also just one home win for the Giants and some of those breaks can’t happen again, can they?
This was widely quoted last night, but in case anyone didn’t see it, the only other person to hit three home runs at AT&T/PacBell/whatever was 35-year-old shortstop Kevin Elster in the park’s first game in 2000.
Tonight, it’s all about Madison Bumgarner’s mechanics.
He started the season well (at one point, his W-L was something like 13-7). And then something went wrong. He completely lost command, and has been getting lit up. He’s had one post-season start and got shelled by Cincinnati; Zito took his spot in the rotation since then.
He says he’s found the problem in bullpen sessions and fixed it.
If he has; if he’s effective tonight and the Giants win, then the Giants are in extremely good shape, with their 2 best starters yet to take the mound.
If he hasn’t, then it’s a best-of-5, Detroit will have home field advantage and the Giants will only have 3 reliable starters.
That’s waht really got to me too; Verlander didn’t pitch a bad game. His pitches were good and controled and I think he had a good mix of strikes and balls. The Giants just crushed him.
I was there for that opener. Not pretty.
As for the Giants luck and Pagan’s grounder off the third base bag, many have already mentioned the 2010 World Series when Texas’ Ian Kinsler led off the fifth against Matt Cain and missed a home run by one inch as his ball hit the top-front edge of the wall (picture; that’s Giants CF Andres Torres looking at the ball bounce) in game 2.
This is starting to remind me of the old Boston Garden and the Celtics’ luck there - there must’ve been a leprechaun perched on the rims.
Are you forgetting Game 1 of the NLCS?
Yeah, I did. But in my defense it was pretty much a clone of Game 2 of the NLDS. Ugly.