It's Got to Be the Morning After

Giants 5 Dodgers 3- Jack Matt Morris joined in the fun with 7 1/3 innings of three run ball, running his record to 3-0. Sadly, the box score sometimes doesn't do justice to the actual performance because Morris was pretty much dealing all night. And speaking of people whose box score doesn't quite do him justice, there's Armando Benitez who continued on with his ritual of getting saves while scaring the crap out of everyone involved. Special game balls go to Dave Roberts for hitting his first home run of the season, Jack Taschner for pitching out of a jam, and Omar Vizquel for being the pivot on a double play by trapping the ball with the side of his glove before throwing to first. For those keeping score, the winning streak is now six and the Giants are now two games over .500. They also snapped an eight game losing streak to the hated Dodgers.

A's 4 O's 2- Get this A's fans: the A's actually won a game by two runs. How did that happen? The answer is one Dallas Braden, recently called up from Triple A to fill in for Rich Harden. And what's with the A's having pitchers with similar names? We got Haren and Harden and now Braden. How are we supposed to keep track of this? Does Beane have some sort of cybermetrix algorithm telling him that kind of name makes a better pitcher? The A's played the very definition of small ball this game as they scored their runs on a bases-loaded walk, a sac fly, and two ground balls. While the A's swept the two-game series against the Orioles, the most impressive thing is that their starting pitching has not allowed more than three runs in the past eighteen games, the first time that's happened since the '98. Oh, and your A's player to go down with an injury is Nick Swish with a strained hammy.