Tim Lincecum’s 12 strike-outs help San Francisco Giants defeat the New York Mets 2-0 - MLB Update
The San Francisco Giants’ starter, Tim Lincecum tossed a shattering innings with the ball, as the club crushed the New York Mets in a low scoring 2-0 game at Citi Field on Wednesday, May 3 to take a 2-0 lead in three-game series.
The Giants’ manager Bruce Bochy was overwhelmed to see such a terrific pitching performance from his top pitcher. Bruce expressed his excitement and said, "Terrific job. He's one of those special guys, when he's had to turn it up a notch he can do it."
Lincecum pitched seven innings, gave five hits and three walks and took out twelve batters to snatch his fifteenth triumph for the Giants. With twelve strike-outs, Lincecum surpassed Christy Mathewson for the most double-digit strike-out outings in Giants’
history.
Tim tossed 127 pitches, which is his second most since August of 2009, but was still ready to make some more as he told reporters.
Lincecum said, "Windy and wet is kind of what I'm used to. It is cool. I still got more pitching to do."
The Mets’ starter, Chris Capuano, pitched five scoreless innings before he yielded his first run in the sixth inning. Chris tossed a shaky pitch to Pat Burrell, who hit it for an RBI single to score the first run of the game.
In the seventh inning, Chris gave an insurance run through an RBI to Mike Fontenot and then allowed three more hits to Aubrey Huff, which increased his average to .200. Chris gave two runs on eight hits, walked three and struck-out five batters in his third
loss of the season.
Everything went wrong for the Mets as they struck-out 16 times, a season high record in a nine inning. After going up against the Philadelphia Phillies’ Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee last week, it was the third of last four outings, in which the Mets faced
the Cy Young award winner.
Mets’ manager Terry Francona was not pleased with his club. He said, “We're a big league team, too. We've got to start putting the ball in play; we've got to start driving in some easy runs."
The Giants’ relievers, Ramon Ramirez, Javier Lopez and Sergio Romo followed the path set by the Lincecum and did not give away any runs. The closer Brian Wilson tossed a perfect last inning for his tenth save of the season. Out of all these pitchers, Ramirez
gave just a single hit.
The Mets’ reliever Ryota Igarashi pitched one inning and allowed just one walk. Subsequently, the closer Dillon Gee gave just one hit and took out one batter over his one inning spell.
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