Tim Lincecum career tracker.

40 Wins
17 Losses
6 Complete Games
3 Shutout
676 Strikeouts
2.90 ERA
152 ERA+
2X All-Star (2008, 2009)
2 Cy Youngs (2008, 2009)


15 Wins
7 Losses
4 Complete Games (led NL)
2 Shutouts (led NL)
261 Strikeouts (led NL)
2.48 ERA
176 ERA+
All-Star Starter
CY YOUNG WINNER


18 Wins
5 Losses
2 Complete Games
1 Shutout
265 Strikeouts (led Major League Baseball)
2.62 ERA
167 ERA+ (led National League
All-Star
CY YOUNG WINNER

Lincecum improved to 2-0 today with an amazing performance - 6 IP, 6 H, 1 BB, 2ER, 11 K's.

Go Lincecum!

Bowker, Lincecum star in Giants' win
Starter Strikes out 11


SAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants called up John Bowker to provide a little bit of power, and he's already overloaded the circuit.

Bowker, who struggled during Spring Training and early in the Triple-A season, has found his comfort zone and then some. In the first two games of his Major League career, Bowker is already second on the team in home runs and runs batted in.

Bowker hit his second home run in as many days and drove in four runs as the San Francisco Giants defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 7-4, in Sunday's series finale.

Bowker wasn't expected to start Monday night's game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, and that's probably a blessing in disguise. He desperately needs some sleep.

"It's time to go back to the hotel and get some rest," he said. "It's been crazy and a lot of fun."

Bowker didn't have much time to pack up and make it to San Francisco for his Major League debut Saturday, and he spent most of the night catching up with family and friends.

"The kid has been a shot in the arm for us coming up and doing what he's doing," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "He's comfortable and he can hit. We needed some power and he's provided that the last couple of games."

Bowker became the first San Francisco Giant to homer in his first two games, slamming a two-run shot during a five-run rally in the fourth inning against Joel Pineiro, who was making his season debut. He also added a run-scoring single and sacrifice fly.

"I have been working on getting comfortable," Bowker said. "I was finding my timing. I have been swinging at bad pitches. Now I feel comfortable out there and I'm trying to get good pitches to hit.

Tim Lincecum won his second straight decision and the Giants have won in each of his three appearances this year. He pitched another six strong innings, becoming only the second Giants starter to earn a victory, joining Kevin Correia.

He allowed two runs on six hits over six innings, walking one and striking out 11, one off his career high and the third time he's struck out 10 or more in a game. Lincecum retired eight in a row, six by strikeouts, during one point in the game.

Eugenio Velez added a two-run single and Lincecum drove in a run with a single, both in the fourth.

Matt Cain hit a home run Saturday, but don't expect to see him or Lincecum batting eighth any time soon, a la the Cardinals.

"I'm just getting lucky out there," Lincecum said. "I'm throwing the bat at the ball. It was more of a good pitch than a good swing."

Tyler Walker got out of a critical jam in the eighth to help the Giants, getting St. Louis leadoff hitter Skip Schumaker to ground out with the bases loaded. Brian Wilson pitched the ninth for his third save.

"That's huge," said Bochy. "We had to have as tough a loss as we can [Saturday]. It was disheartening. But you need to be resilient as a club and a player. Walker goes out there when we needed a big out, makes some good pitches and got us out of there."

Lincecum kicks ass!

7 IP, 6H, 3 BB, 5 K, ZERO ER.

He's 3-0 with a 1.57 ERA.

For comparison, Andrew Miller who was drafted the same year is 0-2 with a 9.68 ERA.

They both have 4 games pitched.

WOW!

Lincecum K's the side in the first and K's 2 more in the 2nd for good measure.

2 more K's in the 3rd for 7 through 3

Chris Young is perfect through 3 though so it's 0-0.

Oh yeah, game over. What awful offenses those two have. Final score: 1-0 Giants. Yesterday's score was 1-0 Padres through 8 before they blew it and lost 3-2 in 13. That's just a few days after they [the Padres] played 13 scoreless innings against the Rockies before both teams scored once in the 14th and not again until the 22nd. Tonight the teams combine for 9 hits - 7 singles, a double, and a home run.

More importantly Tim Lincecum still kicks ass:
6.1 IP, 4 H, 9 K. His ERA falls to 1.23. He threw 120! pitches though. He gets the win and improves to 4-0.



Oh yeah, how's 36 K's in 29.1 innings sound? He's striking people out like it's going out of style!

What a game!

8 IP, 8 K's, 4H, 1 BB, 2ER

The ERA went up to 1.61 but Lincecum still kicks ass!

He leads the league with 53 K's too!

Damn, maybe an all star ya think? he got my vote!

Wow his era sure is climbing

gdennis59 wrote:

Damn, maybe an all star ya think? he got my vote!

Too bad fans can't vote for pitchers

Stupid rules! At this rate he'd better be an all-star. Every team gets 1+. Quick, name a Giant not named Lincecum that's doing any good.

SoulRat wrote:

Wow his era sure is climbing

If it's climbing, Miller's must be in Jupiter

Lincecum has his worst outing of the season matching a season high for earned runs with 3.

He gave up 3 runs (all in the 4th inning) in 6 innings. In typical Lincecum fashion he struck out 10 batters to increase his ML lead in K's.

His ERA skyrockets to 1.92.

Despite all that he left with a 7-3 lead and in pretty good shape. Then of course Tyler Walker gave up 4 runs in the 8th inning which cost Lincecum the win. Former Tiger Tim Byrdak got the win for Houston.

He's stuck at 5-1 with a 1.92 ERA and 63 K's in 59.1 IP.

His final line today: 6IP, 5H, 3ER, 3BB, 10K

catbox_9 wrote:

SoulRat wrote:

Wow his era sure is climbing

If it's climbing, Miller's must be in Jupiter

Maybe he LIKES Jupiter :nahnah:

Look what happened to poor Lincecum today

At this rate he'll catch Miller ERA-wise in another 50 starts

Oh you are a funny man

On a positive note, Miller's era did NOT go up today.

SoulRat wrote:

On a positive note, Miller's era did NOT go up today.

Lincey's did

Oh well, if he kept it under 2 for the season he'd win the Cy Young by a landslide...unless the voters are on crack which might be the case. Webb is 8-0 and will win it regardless if he keeps that up.

Poor Lincecum is really struggling right now

He had possibly his worst game of the year today (it was at Coors Field though, maybe that's why )"

6 IP, 5H, 4BB, 6K, 3 ER


ERA skyrockets to 2.17

His team is 3 outs away from winning and they have a 3 run lead (possibly more as they're still batting).

Lincecum wins!!!

6-1 for the god-awful Giants!

I think you might like this guy

gdennis59 wrote:

I think you might like this guy

You have a problem with that? I think you like Todd Jones. I like Tim Lincecum. I see no problems there. Actually, I'm a pretty big fan of nearly 10 MLers....

Granderson, Verlander, MADDUX!!, Lincecum, Zito (when losing), Howard (when K-ing), and maybe Stephen Drew...that's a new one so let's see if it sticks.

catbox_9 wrote:

gdennis59 wrote:

I think you might like this guy

You have a problem with that? I think you like Todd Jones. I like Tim Lincecum. I see no problems there. Actually, I'm a pretty big fan of nearly 10 MLers....

Granderson, Verlander, MADDUX!!, Lincecum, Zito (when losing), Howard (when K-ing), and maybe Stephen Drew...that's a new one so let's see if it sticks.

No Smoltz?

I think the fishies will see this guy this weekend?

bobrob2004 wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

gdennis59 wrote:

I think you might like this guy

You have a problem with that? I think you like Todd Jones. I like Tim Lincecum. I see no problems there. Actually, I'm a pretty big fan of nearly 10 MLers....

Granderson, Verlander, MADDUX!!, Lincecum, Zito (when losing), Howard (when K-ing), and maybe Stephen Drew...that's a new one so let's see if it sticks.

No Smoltz?

I like Smoltz! He's just not in that upper echelon. He's the next tier though which contains guys like Dan Haren, Jake Peavy, Larry Jones, etc.

catbox_9 wrote:

gdennis59 wrote:

I think you might like this guy

You have a problem with that? I think you like Todd Jones. I like Tim Lincecum. I see no problems there. Actually, I'm a pretty big fan of nearly 10 MLers....

Granderson, Verlander, MADDUX!!, Lincecum, Zito (when losing), Howard (when K-ing), and maybe Stephen Drew...that's a new one so let's see if it sticks.

No problems, it would be better if he were a Tiger though...

And you sure do have a thing for pitchers.

gdennis59 wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

gdennis59 wrote:

I think you might like this guy

You have a problem with that? I think you like Todd Jones. I like Tim Lincecum. I see no problems there. Actually, I'm a pretty big fan of nearly 10 MLers....

Granderson, Verlander, MADDUX!!, Lincecum, Zito (when losing), Howard (when K-ing), and maybe Stephen Drew...that's a new one so let's see if it sticks.

No problems, it would be better if he were a Tiger though...

And you sure do have a thing for pitchers.

:curtis: and are Tigers

By liking players on other teams it gives me something to root for when the Tigers aren't on. You've got to broaden your interests so that most any baseball game has meaning.

Pitchers rock! Jones is a pitcher so I think you have a thing for pitchers, too!

Yeah, but hes like the only pitcher I really pay attention to. I like Thome alot, and Berkman, Matt Stairs, Dan Uggla, guys like that.

Pitchers rock

Ok, whatever you say...