Tim Lincecum career tracker.

Holy hell that was a fast inning! Time-wise it couldn't have taken more than 2 minutes. Pitch-wise it took Sergio Romo 6 pitches. Lincecum is 3 outs away. Giants are about to bat - score a lot of runs, please!

It's 3-1!!!

Inning over. This is it. 3 outs before 2 runs and Lincecum gets one last win.

First pitch - a double

C'mon Wilson!

Second pitch - a single

3rd pitch - a line drive that's caught. He must be pitching terrible as they're swinging at everything.

!!

The game is over! The Giants' season is now over. NOW the totals are final....

18-5, 227IP, 2.62 ERA, 265 K's. It probably won't win a Cy Young, but it will put him in the running.


UPDATE:

Pitchers who were 13+ games above .500 for a team that was 13+ games below .500.

Tim Lincecum went 18-5 for the 2008 Giants (72-90).
Steve Carlton went 27-10 for the 1972 Phillies (59-97).
Eddie Rommell went 27-13 for the 1922 Athletics (65-89).
Dazzy Vance went 22-9 for the 1925 Brooklyn Dodgers (68-85).

catbox_9 wrote:

First pitch - a double

C'mon Wilson!

I started watching it a little after that Tiger's game fiasco was over.

When B. Wilson (that's what I call him literally) came in, I was like 1-2-3, you got this, but that didn't happen.

Tiny Timmy looked sooooooo happy though!

Wait? You could watch it but I couldn't?!!? What the heck? I pay money for mlb.tv (never again though) and can't watch it there since I'm blacked out from all Dodger/Angel games. I live less than 200 miles from where it's being played but can't watch on FSN Bay Area because the Giants aren't my local team. The other team in the game plays less than 200 miles from me, is my local team, but didn't televise the game.

catbox_9 wrote:

Wait? You could watch it but I couldn't?!!? What the heck? I pay money for mlb.tv (never again though) and can't watch it there since I'm blacked out from all Dodger/Angel games. I live less than 200 miles from where it's being played but can't watch on FSN Bay Area because the Giants aren't my local team. The other team in the game plays less than 200 miles from me, is my local team, but didn't televise the game.

Extra Innings, it's a great buy for the most part.

I went to my grandma's to help her cook, so I could also watch the last regular season games. It came on the same channel as the Tigers.

Oh, okay. I'll probably get that instead of mlb.tv next year since I won't live at 2 places and I'd rather watch on TV than on the PC. I was going to be ever-so-mad if you could get it on regular TV somehow in LA, but not in CA.

Awh, I bet you would have!

Oh yeah....a few days ago the players voted and they decided that the best pitcher in the national league is....Tim Lincecum!

Hopefully the BBWAA agrees as the Cy Young is a bigger deal.

catbox_9 wrote:

Oh yeah....a few days ago the players voted and they decided that the best pitcher in the national league is....Tim Lincecum!

Hopefully the BBWAA agrees as the Cy Young is a bigger deal.

The votes are in...

Lincecum wins the Cy Young!

Tim Lincecum named cover athlete for MLB 2K9

Tim Lincecum wrote:

“Winning the Cy Young Award is truly an amazing honor, and now having the opportunity to be on the cover of Major League Baseball 2K9 is another dream come true and an absolutely surreal experience,” said Tim Lincecum, MLB All-Star pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. “Whenever I’m hanging out at home or traveling on the road, you can find me playing video games, and I’m definitely the best gamer in the clubhouse by far. I’m incredibly stoked that 2K Sports picked me to represent Major League Baseball 2K9, and I look forward to lending my baseball knowledge to the development process.”

While attending the University of Washington, Lincecum won the coveted Golden Spikes Award which is given to the nation’s top college baseball player. He was drafted 10th overall by the San Francisco Giants in 2006. Known to fans as “The Franchise” and “The Freak”, Lincecum was named to the National League All-Star team this past season while putting up astonishing numbers and leading the Majors™ with a remarkable 265 strikeouts. Lincecum also led the National League in other key pitching categories including win percentage (18-5, .783), opponent’s batting average (.221), and strikeouts per nine innings (10.51), along with ranking second in earned run average (2.62). For all of his historic accomplishments, Lincecum won the Players’ Choice Award as the National League Outstanding Pitcher this season, along with the National League Pitcher of the Year Award from Sporting News. Both awards were voted on by his peers. More significantly, Lincecum today was named the National League Cy Young Award winner, given annually to the top pitcher in both the American League and the National League, and voted on by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

Quote :

"Tim is a special player and has the best stuff in baseball. We couldn’t have selected a more naturally talented and exciting player to represent Major League Baseball 2K9 next season, and given that he’s an avid gamer, it will be a lot of fun working together," said Greg Thomas, senior vice president of sports development for 2K. "Visual Concepts has taken over the development of our Major League Baseball title, and we look forward to continuing to provide fans with the most authentic and high quality gameplay experience that we bring to all of our sports titles."

Major League Baseball 2K9 is being developed by Visual Concepts, a 2K Sports studio, and is not yet rated by the ESRB. Major League Baseball 2K9 will be available in early 2009 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PLAYSTATION®3 and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment systems, PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, and Wii™ home video game system from Nintendo.

Hey catbox, look what someone did on mlb.com forum...

http://acx.prospero.com/dir-bbcard/242/1874885290.icon

Won't be long and it'll probably be true

The Old English D would look much better on Lincecum

Anything but pinstripes!

catbox_9 wrote:

Anything but pinstripes!

Mets wear pinstripes too


At least sometimes at home

I would hate it if he were a Yank. That would suck.

Yankees are a pressure cooker for players, look how Pudge failed there big time!

Tigers should have brought Pudge back

I drafted Lincecum on my mlb.com fantasy baseball team

catbox_9 wrote:

Anything but pinstripes!

A few fishies look awfully nice in pinstripes

Erm. Soul. WHERE THE EFF HAVE YOU BEEN?!!?!?
In a nice way...

gdennis59 wrote:

Erm. Soul. WHERE THE EFF HAVE YOU BEEN?!!?!?
In a nice way...

In Washington, comforting poor Scotty O?

SoulRat wrote:

gdennis59 wrote:

Erm. Soul. WHERE THE EFF HAVE YOU BEEN?!!?!?
In a nice way...

In Washington, comforting poor Scotty O?

:haha: