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Giants best shot now at the wild card
By Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin September 1, 2006 |
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The best chance the San Francisco Giants may have at a shot at post-season play may have to come through the Wild Card race. The Giants are three games behind first place in the wild card but are six back in the division race behind first place Los Angeles Dodgers. The Giants dropped Friday's contest early as the Cubs scored twice in the second, once in the third, twice in the fourth, and once in the fifth, all off of Giants starter Noah Lowry. Lowry gave up two homers in his five innings of work, the first in the bottom of the fourth to Chicago’s Matt Murton, with a runner on. Then in the bottom of the fourth, Lowry game up a homer to Ryan Theriot, which was his first of the season. Lowry (L, 7-8 ERA 4.00), went five innings, eight hits, six runs, one walk, one strike out, two homers. The Cubs winning pitcher Rich Hill (W, 4-6 ERA 5.23) went 8 innings, 5 hits, one run, one walk, and six strike outs. Starters for Saturday: Jason Schmidt will go for the Giants (10-8 ERA 3.37) Schmidt lost his last decision on August 29th 13-8 to Atlanta. The Cubs Angel DeGuzman (0-4 ERA 7.20) went five innings, eight hits, six runs, one walk, one strike out, two home runs. DeGuzman lost his last decision August 28th 11-6 to the Pirates. First pitch Saturday at Wrigley 11:20PM. Joe Cronin and Ken Gimblin co-host Sportstalk on 1690 KFSG Sacramento. |
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