What can I say. I'm so........disappointed in the outcome of yesterdays game. :( When we tied it up at 5 heading to the bottom of the ninth inning I was feeling pretty good about the situation we were in. Oswalt, I thought, would keep us in that game and we would have at least 6 extra outs to work with. But hey I gotta hand it to the Giants for getting the job done. They did what they had to do to win that game. Now, Roy Halladay has to do what we all know he can do. Which is dominate for at least 7 innings.
Here is what I'm thinking. If Roy and the offense can somehow muster together some runs tonight and hold on to win, then we go back to Philadelphia for game 6. Roy Oswalt goes for us in game 6. And if he can do what he did in game 2 and the offense can again score some runs then that means we got game 7 coming our way. Now lets say we get to game 7. Cole Hamels vs. Matt Cain. And if Cole runs into some problems then I gotta believe Charlie would call upon Halladay to go a couple of innings. I'm sure Oswalt would be out of the question because he would of just pitched the previous day. But he could essentially use everybody that we have to try and put together a series clinching win. But that's ALOT of if's. And ALOT has to happen between now and then. Can we do it? YES...we can. Will we do it? Hmmmm....yes we will! Confidence baby.
But let's take a step back and take this one game, one inning, one pitch at a time. We got Roy for these situations. Ok.....I'm sure nobody that has anything to do with the Phillies organization could of imagined being DOWN 3-1 in the NLCS. But if there is one pitcher that I would want out there in this situation, Roy "the perfect game and no-hitter in the same season" Halladay is the guy I would want!! Like it has been all season and all playoffs long its the offense or the lack there of is what concerns me the most. We have our work cut out for us. We have to go against a 2 time CY Young award winning pitcher in Tim Lincecum. And if it comes down to the bullpens, like it did last night, then again I'm not liking our chances. All I can say is that we have to play error free baseball and capitalize on any Giant mistakes. And another thing that needs to happen is that if and when we get baserunners we have to be more aggressive on the basepaths. We can't rely on getting basehit after basehit to score runs. Not going to happen against Lincecum. And the way were are NOT hitting the ball isn't helping the situation. And I hope they aren't stupid either. Smart decisions when and if you get on. Don't try to force the big play alot or your just going to screw yourself and end up losing the game.
So hopefully this is the last time I say this, congratulations to the Giants on getting the big win yesterday. And I must say congratulations to the Yankees for getting the big win against Texas. Now they got.....Phil Hughes going for them in game 6? And Pettitte for game 7. Just like the Phillies they have their work cut out for them.