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Giants salvage series with 6-2 victory over Rockies
By Joe Cronin and Ken Gimblin August 6, 2006 |
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SAN FRANCISCO--The San Francisco Giants, who dropped the first two games of the series with the Colorado Rockies, were able to save the series with a getaway day victory over the Rockies this afternoon by the score of 6-2. The Giants put together a key three run rally in the bottom of the sixth inning after seeing the ball game tied up 2-2. Mark Sweeny singled to left center to score Moises Alou to take a 3-2 lead. Then Pedro Feliz picked up an RBI single to score Bonds. Then pitcher Matt Cain singled to center to score Mark Sweeny and the Giants took a 5-2 lead. The Giants then added one more run in the bottom of the seventh when Sweeny singled home Bonds and the final score was 6-2 in favor of the San Francisco. Colorado’s Adam Cook (L, 7-10 ERA 3.95) pitched 5.1 innings, giving up nine hits, five runs, five earned, one walk, one strike out. San Francisco’s Matt Cain, (W, 8-8 ERA 4.62) helped his own cause today with his bat pitched seven innings, six hits, two runs, one walk, and struck out 12 batters. Cain (W, 8-8 ERA 4.62) gets the win. JC and Kenny G's Giants footnotes: U.S. District Judge Jeffery White ruled that the two San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams will have to give up their sources in the Grand Jury Investigation in the BALCO/Steroid scandal. Judge White ruled that in a 1972 case law, journalists have no constitutional rights to refuse to identify their sources before a grand jury. Making matters worse for Williams and Fainaru-Wada, Judge White recited a case from a 1993 ruling that no exemptions can be made for journalists in the California Shield laws involving a grand jury. Williams and Fainaru-Wada who reported investigative news on BALCO became news stories themselves when they received grand jury testimony on Barry Bonds saying that he had no knowledge of what was in BALCO products the Cream and the Clear. Bonds in his December 2003 testimony claimed to be using the products as a cream balm for pain and flaxseed oil. Judge White would like to know where the two journalists got that information. It was reported in the Chronicle that Victor Conte the BALCO founder was the source of that information which Conte emailed Bonds testimony to Williams and Fainaru-Wada. "No case has held to the contrary" said Judge Williams saying while he understood that the journalists are trying to exercise the Shield law. White is bound by the 1972 and 1993 case law rulings to have Williams and Fainaru-Wada give up their source. A judge who heard testimony in the Greg Anderson contempt of court case ruled that chemist and inventor of "the clear" who worked for BALCO was sent to prison for three months and three months house arrest. Patrick Arnold 40, an executive with nutritional supplements in Champaign Ill will have to turn himself in by Sept 19th for distributing steroids according to San Francisco U.S. District Judge Susan Illston. "It's a really destructive path you've been on, and a very serious crime you committed." Judge Illston told Arnold. Arnold said on Friday while leaving court "I'm very grateful for what I've done especially what it has precipitated in sports and society. Now more than ever, I'm very much against sports doping." Williams talking outside the San Francisco Federal Building on Friday said of Judge White's ruling, "I think we're going to get relief, if not from this judge, then from an appellate judge, I'm an optimistic person." Bonds on Saturday hit a double and on Friday hit his 15th homer of the year and through it all with the trials of Williams, Fainaru-Wada, trainer Gregg Anderson, BALCO founder Victor Conte, and now "the Clear" inventor Patrick Arnold, Bonds is still able to concentrate and is still swinging the bats. Finally on tap on Monday night: The Giants open up a road trip in Arizona at Chase Field. The Giants have announced they'll be starting Jason Schmidt (8-7 ERA 3.11). Schmidt has won two of his last six starts. The Diamondbacks have not announced a starter for Monday night at press time. First pitch at Chase is slated for 4:40PM PDT. You can bet with the high 90 degree heat for this series the roof will remain closed at Chase. The air conditioning at Chase Field is superb. You would never know that it was 90 degrees during batting practice time when it's 70 degrees inside the air conditioned park. This is one park in the majors where air conditioning is vital any place that builds a swimming pool in the bleachers should be your first clue. Joe Cronin and Ken Gimblin share microphones on Sportstalk weekends on 1690 KFSG Sacramento. Quotes courtesy of : KTVU Fox 2 Oakland and sfgate.com |
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