Giants' starter, Tim Lincecum, only lasted 3 innings with 78 pitches. It was a bit disappointing. This 24 year old Cy Young award winner is the 3rd in history to win this award in the 2nd year of his career, and the 1st year of his full season (2008). He did a tremendous performance in the 2008 season, especially with a team of less than .500 winning ratio, he managed to score 18 wins out of Giants' total 44 victories.
Lincecum didn't try to find any excuse, he said that he just had a bad day. But you can easily see that the Brewers were a bit overly aggressive with him, maybe just for the idea of beating a young gun. For today's game, he said, "I'll try to take it with a grain of rice and move on." Rice? "Rice, salt, whatever. I'm half-Asian," Lincecum said.
Lincecum is half Filipino.
I do not plan to track game standings here. However, since it's the opening series with the first wins from the two local teams, it doesn't hurt to mention it.
Tomorrow, Chien-Ming Wang is going to start his first game this season against Baltimore Orioles. I wish him good luck. After all, we came from the same place. I am not over hyped about him like many Taiwan media. Wang is no doubt a good player, but not a very dominating one and still has many to improve. His performance depends a bit much on the teammate's support for the ground-outs. I've seen his game against Oakland A's twice. First was in 2007, a game that he didn't win nor lose. The second was on my birthday in 2008, and that was a great game. Wang pitched 7 innings. There were 5 innings with first batter getting onto the base, but there were also 5 double-plays. Let me put it this way, watching Wang's game is never relaxing. It's exciting but nervous.
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