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Giants: With two off-days in five days, the Giants will be given the chance to skip a turn in their rotation, and although skipper Bruce Bochy didn't come out and say it Wednesday, he hinted the Giants would do just that. With the two off-days, Lincecum will already be pitching on one extra day's rest, so why hold back a two-time National League Cy Young Award winner? In his last start, Lincecum mixed his historical dominance (10 strikeouts) with his recent struggles (four walks, eight hits) in six innings of work, earning his seventh win of the season. He exited after six innings after being grazed on the back of his right shoulder by a ball hit by Miguel Tejada. Bochy said Lincecum would have left after the inning regardless, having thrown 111 pitches, and Lincecum expects nothing to come from the hit.

Astros: As the Astros kick off a three-game home series against the Giants, they will send their ace to the mound in search of his sixth victory of the season. Coming off a stellar performance in which Oswalt tossed seven innings, allowing only two earned runs on six hits with one walk and a strikeout, the hard-throwing right-hander will look to pick up right we he left off. With his last victory against the Royals, Oswalt now has 142 career victories, just two shy of tying Joe Niekro's franchise record.

Giants: Despite taking only his third loss of the season, Zito was fantastic Friday night against the Blue Jays, throwing his first complete game of the season. If not for a first-pitch changeup to Alex Gonzalez that was belted for an eighth-inning solo home run, Zito may have come away with the win. What is worrisome for the left-hander is that six of the seven home runs he has allowed this season have come over his past five starts. Zito will look to continue his success against the Astros, whom he is 3-1 with a 3.69 ERA against over five career starts.

Astros: In his last start, Myers was done in by one inning. The right-hander coasted through 6 2/3 innings before the Royals lit him up for a four-run seventh inning, thanks in part to a three-run home run from Scott Podsednik. Myers ended the day hurling 6 2/3 innings, allowing seven hits and four earned runs, with two walks and three strikeouts. Four of those seven hits came in the seventh inning. Myers will look to get back on track and climb back to .500 as he takes on the Giants at Minute Maid Park. In his career, Myers is 1-4 against the Giants with a 6.30 ERA in nine games.

Astros: Rodriguez got roughed up in his last start against the Rangers, where he gave up six runs in just three innings. He was sailing along through the first two until Rangers pitcher Scott Feldman hit a double off him with one out. From there, walks and hits led to a long inning, which would be his last in a 9-3 loss. Rodriguez will look to end his three-game losing streak against the Giants, who beat him 3-0 on April 6 in his first start of the season.

Giants: Cainer is very good. If someone tells you he's the third best pitcher in baseball though, don't question him - question your reading comprehension. Cainer hits the occasional home run and shoots deer in the head with a rifle.

Giants INF Mark DeRosa will have season-ending surgery to repair his injured left wrist.

xx_skaterdude_xx wrote:If we make the playoffs this year, we should send a big thank you card to the Astros.

xx_skaterdude_xx wrote:Oh, and was going to make a thread for this, but he doesn't deserve it.

Giants INF Mark DeRosa will have season-ending surgery to repair his injured left wrist.

**** you DeRosa. **** you.

TheLowlySquire wrote:Good game team. Good thing DeRosa won't come back. Who knows how Bochy would've fcked up the lineup if he did.

Now this is a head scratcher. Buster Posey sits for the second consecutive game (and third day in a row). Rest assured, the question will be asked.

Posey is in a 2-for-27 slide. But he’s only had a handful of bad at-bats during that stretch. And he’s been robbed in the field a few times. We must be missing some piece of information here.

Perhaps this is a good time to remind everyone that this is a family-friendly forum. No vulgar or inappropriate language, please.

CF Torres
2B Sanchez
RF Huff
3B Uribe
LF Burrell
1B Sandoval
SS Renteria
C Molina
P Zito

Stanford wrote:

xx_skaterdude_xx wrote:If we make the playoffs this year, we should send a big thank you card to the Astros.

If Tim finishes with a sub-3 ERA, he should personally deliver a big ole spliff to every last Astro, including Jennie Finch's husband.

xx_skaterdude_xx wrote:Oh, and was going to make a thread for this, but he doesn't deserve it.

Giants INF Mark DeRosa will have season-ending surgery to repair his injured left wrist.

**** you DeRosa. **** you.

Yeah, I've been debating making that thread for weeks. The real **** you should go to Sabean.

The only positive from this is that he should be 100% for next season. To be fair to him, he was never healthy this season.

We'll see.