A Rivalry Renewed: Giants Win Despite Emotions and Horrible Umpiring

On a beautiful Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco, the Giants and Dodgers were duking it out at AT&T park. The Giants called on Tim Lincecum (12-3 2.19 ERA) to prevent the sweep of the rival Dodgers. Lincecum went up against the spot starter, Jeff Weaver (5-4 3.71 ERA) because Chad Billingsley missed the start with hamstring tightness.

Timmy started the game out brilliantly striking out Rafael Furcal out on three pitches, and eventually threw three innings of no hit ball.

However, in the second inning, Lincecum walked Manny to lead off the inning, then Manny started to steal and then retreated back to first, mean while Bengie Molina rifled a throw to Travis Ishikawa who dropped the tag on Manny Ramirez who was sliding back.

It appears that Ishikaw...

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