Giants Salvage a Game vs Phillies and Red Sox Still Own Yankees

I've got to say this have been the roughest week and a half to be a Giants fan this year. The Giants have been 2-8 since they got Carlos Beltran. I appreciate the bat but only 2 RBI's for us so far. No home runs by the way. 10-41 including today's game, which we were lucky to win. The Phillies came into town and have made our homestand more miserable than the D'Backs did. They won out of 3 of this 4 game series and were looking for the sweep. Luckily, Timmy was on the mound and pitched a solid game (no thanks to Chase Utley) and managed to get the win with Wilson closing it out, 3-1. The miraculous thing is that we still have a 1/2 game lead over the D'Backs in the NL West. I guess we have to thank the Dodgers a bit and then hate them so more. At least we now get the slumping Pirates for our next series and at home still.

From the Bay Area to the Bay State, the Red Sox squared off with the Yankees to close out a 3 game series at Fenway. Each team had taken a game so this was a rubber match. The Red Sox had the lead for a while at 1-0 until the 5th when Eduardo Nunez hit a solo shot and then Brett Gardner hit a solo shot in the 7th giving the Yankees a 2-1 lead. Bottom of the 9th came up and Marco Scutaro managed to get on third with a double off the monster and then a sac bunt by Jacoby Ellsbury. Dustin Pedroia managed to sac fly him home. All this off Mariano Rivera. In the Bottom of the 10th, Big Papi got a ground rule double with one out. Darnell McDonald came in to run for David Ortiz and then Carl Crawford got intentionally walked. Josh Reddick was next and hit a single down the LF line to get McDonald home for the walk off win in the 10th. Red Sox win it, 3-2. They win the series, 2-1, and have a one game lead over the Yanks in the AL East.

Somehow, both of my teams still have a slim divisional lead despite the runner ups gaining on them. Little more concerned for the Giants considering the runner up in the AL East will most likely run away with the Wild Card. That being said, let's hope this funk is finally over. The Giants need to win more games.

P.S. It's now 3-8 since we got Beltran.