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love_that_reefer · **Winning streak snapped -** 05-04-2005, 02:41 AM

The Giants lost a hard one tonight against the Dbacks to snap a 6 game winning streak. Rueter pitched a beauty and at one point retired 11 straight. Herges got the lost. Feliz and Neikro both hit solo shots. Grissom sat this game out and should do that for a while. Ellison, though he made an error, needs to be playing more. He went 2-4 tonight out of the leadoff spot and is hitting .442 on the year. Grissom is hitting .214. Durham is hitting .237 but has a .367 OBP. His bat has to get hot.

Tomko is on the mound tomorrow night and is going for his fouth straight win against the Dbacks.

Benitez's surgery was a success and will most likely be out for the season. Jim Brower has been named the go to gut in most situations. Brower is gonna have to be huge.

griffeyfan3 · 05-04-2005, 08:55 PM

how are you guys winning like this without benitez or bonds?? sucks that bonds is out for at least another 2 months.

love_that_reefer · 05-04-2005, 09:23 PM

Because we have one of the best GM's in baseball. He went out and got veterans. These guys know how to play. Remember when everyone was saying Vizquel was washed up? Well watch the nightly web gems and you will see that Vizquel is far from done. Omar has been unbelievable at short and it has rubbed off on the others. The veterans have been playing along time and know how to win no matter what. Pedro Feliz has also become a MLB hitter. Plus our young guys have been stepping it up. Lance Neikro has 4 homers in limited play and Jason Ellison is hitting over .400. The bullpen will eventually catch up with us but rumors say the Giants are looking at Jorge Julio to help out.

Here's another big reason why. This is from ESPN.com Jayson Stark:

Ichiro Suzuki has hit .409 since last year's All-Star break, the highest average of any hitter in baseball. But we bet you can't guess who's No. 2, among hitters with at least 250 plate appearances since then.

It's Giants first baseman J.T. Snow, believe it or not. He was hitting an amazing .378, according to the fabulous new day-by-day database at baseballmusings.com.

"J.T. has reinvented himself," said Giants assistant GM Ned Colletti. "He's become an on-base guy, a singles-doubles guy with a little gap power, a guy who just knows how to play and knows how to hit. He's done a lot of work with [Giants hitting coaches] Joe Lefebvre and Willie Upshaw, and he's made adjustments. Early in his career, he wasn't making those adjustments. But he's making them now. I just think he got tired of being written off."