D-backs beat the wonder boy to sweep Giants

The wonder boy Tim Lincecum is beatable after all. He pitched pretty darn well, but not well enough to hold off the pesky D-backs, as they win a huge game tonight 3-2 and sweep the Giants in this four-game series. Woohoo!!!!

That was one of the better games I've seen all year. It had it all. Both sides provided big time pitching performances from Lincecum and Randy Johnson, in addition to clutch hitting from Justin Upton, Bengie Molina, and Adam Dunn.

Johnson pitched his %^#@*! off out there for seven innings, and only gave up a first inning run. But win 295 was still not in the cards for him...but that's ok...he really was the guy responsible for the win even though the stats won't bear it out.

With the D-backs trailing 1-0 in the sixth, Upton hit a missile to left over the head of Eugenio Velez and went cruising around the bases about as fast as I've ever seen him, ending up with a triple. That shot scored Stephen Drew and Conor Jackson to give the D-backs the lead. Velez looked shell shocked out there the ball came on him so quickly. The amazing thing about that hit was the fact that the pitch was about three inches off of the ground when he hit it.

Benjie Molina then came right back in the eighth and tied with a solo shot off of Juan Cruz. It really felt like at that point Upton's huge hit was all for not.

But the biggest play of the game then came when Conor Jackson stole second base in the eighth to get himself into scoring position. That's the kind of thing that Arizona should have been doing this entire season. Dunn then came to the plate facing Lincecum for the fourth time of the night, having not fared well in his previous three. He then lasered one to right field and Jackson was off to the races to score with the go ahead run.

Qualls then shut down San Francisco in order in the ninth, and there's the four-game sweep.......sweet....too bad the Dodgers won earlier in the day in extras...but this was an absolute must win for Arizona, and they did exactly what they needed to do to ensure a victory tonight against arguably the Cy Young winner of the NL. Although that now drops Lincecum to 17-4....so...there may still be a little daylight for Webby to still possibly snag it.

So, the D-backs get back to .500 and still 3 1/2 back with 10 to go. You hope to get back more than a game after winning four straight, but nobody said this would be easy. Let's now hope that Colorado rolls over for three and the D-backs can make up some more ground. The Dodgers now start a weekend series with these Giants. Maybe they're pissed enough after getting swept that they'll put up a good fight over in L.A......let's hope.....