Sounds like a 7-game homestand for the 2009 Giants.
Instead, after 10 runs and a season high 18 hits in a 10-1 thrashing of the Mets on Monday night in NYC the Giants kept the ball rolling in Cincinnati by storming back for an 8-5, 10 inning triumph over the pesky Reds that featured 12 more knocks.
Rowand was the hero Monday night with four hits and a homer and new Giant Ryan Garko was the man Tuesday with four RBI's including two on a 10th-inning double that gave the Giants their first lead of the night.
After being down 4-0 after 2 and 5-1 after 4 the Giants looked dead in the water.
After all this is a team with one 3-run comeback all season and that came on the only homer of Eli Whiteside's career two weeks ago in Houston.
So as I went to work I was pretty upset that Timmy had given up four runs in the second, including a two-run hit to Reds pitcher Homer Bailey and that the Giants weren't going to beat a hapless Cincinnati team with their ace on the mound.
But something remarkable happened.
The Giants scored four runs in the sixth via a two-run single from Garko and a two-run double from Randy Winn, all with two outs, for a team that has had a few clutch hits lately but needed so many more.
The bullpen quartet of Affeldt, Romo, Howry (first win of the season now 1-5) and Wilson (save) gave the G-men four scoreless innings, striking out six and yielding just one hit.
Zito tomorrow and Cain Wednesday before a monster four-gamer in Colorado.
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