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Friday May 8th - Barry Zito is pitching like a Cy Young right now, and I never thought that sentence would be said again (non sarcastically that is). Zito pitched another absolute gem against the Mannyless Dodgers and the Giants offense actually stepped up and got him the win!

Not only did Zito beat the Dodgers, but he out pitched Chad Billingsley to give him his first loss of the season. This was an exciting game to watch, as none of us really expected the Giants to beat the Dodgers with a Zito/Billingsley matchup.

Even though I run a website that is trying to trade this guitar playing hippy, I have to admit it when he impresses me. In the 5th inning, with the bases loaded and Brandon Medders completing his warm ups to come into the game to clean up Zito’s mess, Bochy made the long slow walk out to the pitchers mound. Zito greeted him with a glove over his mouth to cover up the conversation, while the gates to the bullpen opened up to let Medders onto the field. Zito never backed down, and argued for his chance to finish this inning and stay in the game. You could see the fire in his eyes, and that he wanted it.

Bochy gave him the shot and Zito delivered. I was extremely impressed with Zito’s actions.

The Giants were able to round up 3 runs for the 3-1 victory despite not having an extra base hit. Renteria and Sandoval both knocked runs in during the 7th inning using the small ball tactics we are becoming known for. Just imagine if we could pick up a power hitter…

Zito’s next start is Wednesday May 13th against the Washington Nationals.

Sunday, May 3rd - Barry Zito had his best outing as Giant on Sunday going seven very strong innings. He only allowed two hits struck out four and the Giants beat the Rockies 1-0 in 10 innings.

Over the last three games, Barry has now given up a total of only three runs (and that was only in one inning against the Dodgers (yes the inning with the Balk)). So that is 19 scoreless innings out of the last 20.1. That’s dealing.

He also has lowered his ERA to a decent 3.99. The first time he has been under 4 in his career, for fucking ever, for a long time now at least.

Unfortunately the Giants couldn’t do shit offensively, getting dominated by Jason Hammel. Hammel threw six innings of scoreless ball and left after only 79 innings. Pulling a young pitcher after 79 pitches in a scoreless ball makes as much sense as pinch hitting Molina in the 7th for Fred Lewis in a double play situation.

Seriously Bochy what the fuck were you thinking. Ok here is the situation in case you missed the game.

Emmanuel Burriss doubles down the line to start off the bottom of the 7th. Steve Holm then grounds into a FC to the new pitcher Grilll and he makes an attempt at Burriss at 3rd but throws it away. So we have runners on the corners with no outs. Randy Winn then pinch hits for Zito and strikes out. So now we have a runner on third still, and Holm (a Catcher) on first with Fred Lewis up who has been peppering the ball all game.

Bochy sits Lewis for Molina who had the day off. So now we take out a guy who is hitting well, and needs more experience in this situation, for our most clutch hitter, that is a guaranteed double play if he hits it on the ground. So we have Catcher speed on first, and at the plate we have Molina who would lose a foot race against Jabba the Hut. Lewis only had 5 GDIP’s last year against Molina’s 23!

I don’t think I have to tell you what happened next, but I will. Bengie grounded out into a fucking inning ending double play.

Luckily the useless old man Rich Aurilla (the only happiness he brings to me, is when the stadium announcer calls out his name pre at-bat)got a game winning single in the 10th.

Zito didn’t get the win and is still looking for his first win of the season, but he is definitely starting the “is Zito back?” talks. I am happy to see him pitch well, and hopefully we get a couple more of these before the wheels fall off.

April 27th, 2009 - Barry Zito continues to ruin the value of this website with another darling performance against the much Los Angeles Dodgers. Overall, this was a great game that showed the San Francisco Giants can compete with what is maybe the best team in the MLB. The douchebags Dodgers are solid from top to bottom, and any hitter can really ruin a good start with one swing of the bat.

In the second inning I started to get pretty worried as the classic sign that Zito was about to get ripped reared its ugly head. Zito left the first 7 pitches of the inning up in the zone but luckily got out of a jam with an inning ending double play. It was a big difference from the first inning when Barry only needed 9 pitches to retire the Dodgers.\

In the stands was a possibly drunk Barry Bonds sitting front row and looking better then everyone like always. I could smell the liquor threw the TV when he did an interview with Amy Gutierrez (who by the way is fucking awful). I am sure this is the only way he could go to a ball game and be on the nonathletic part of the stadium.

The Giants pulled out a great win 5-4 and continued to look like a legit team. We have now won 7 of our last 9, with both of those two losses happening during the last at bats of our opponents.

In the bottom of the third, we scored three on a couple of brain farts by the Dodgers and then a single by Pablo Sandoval. Zito then took a shutout into the 7th before getting tired and making some mistakes. He gave up a two run homerun to Casey Blake, an RBI single to Orlando Hudson, and then another RBI single to that fuck face Manny Ramirez. He was then pulled.

Zito had his 13-inning scoreless streak snapped and remains win less in his last 10 April starts. He pitched a total of 6 1/3 innings, allowing three runs and five hits.

“I’m still upset at myself for walking [Mark] Loretta and not bearing down on Blake,” Zito said. “Sure I was starting to tire, but I have to bear down. It’s strictly mental.”

We won Barry, you kept us in the game and we rallyed around you to steal back the win. Ill take a game like this from you everyday.

Barry Zito pitched really well, and no that is not sarcastic. His fast ball hit in the 90’s a couple of times, and he was hitting his spots with some zip on it. Sure he pitched a gem against the shitty Padres (don’t let their record fool you, they are still as bad as they were last year) but I think he would have had good results against most teams with the way he threw.

Unfortunately Zito got Cain’ed and the Giants scored zero runs while he was on the mound. We ended up beating the Padres on Bengie Molina’s two out ground rule double in the bottom of the ninth.

The way we won was actually pretty funny.  Andres Torres singled to right and stole second during Eugenio Velez’s strikeout. That brought up Fred Lewis with Emmanuel Burriss on deck. The Padres decided to intentionally walk Freddy Lewis to get to the 0 for the century Burriss. As soon as they threw the first ball to Lewis, Bengie Molina (who had the day off and didn’t take batting practice) stepped outside the dugout to the on deck circle. The crowd of 26,593 fans (smallest since we opened At&t) erupted. Bengie showed how clutch he is, and ended the game.

Back to Zito though, like I have said before I am a Giants fan, so I am always routing for Zito. He just finally delivered.

Zito only allowed one runner past second base, and for the first time since July of last year, did not have a walk. He also lowered his ERA from 10.00 to a career low 5.63 (still have to get my jabs in).

“I just wanted to be aggressive today and let the hitters on the other side earn it themselves instead of falling behind and giving them free passes,” said Zito. “As good a [rotation] that we have, we want to go out and help the team more than the last guy did. Some of these outings were pretty impressive, but I’m just glad to get a win today, too.”

Anyone who received their SFGiants.com email today, knows that the title of the email was “Zito brings good vibes to finale at Dodger Stadium”, well that’s about all he brought because he sure didn’t bring any skill. You can read the whole article here but don’t waste your time its bullshit. They actually try to hype the game up by saying Barry Zito likes pitching in L.A “because he’s 3-1 with a 2.73 ERA in four career appearances there”. How shitty of a pitcher are you when your bragable stats still include an ERA close to three!

Randy Johnson had never lost in L.A going into this week and hes been pitching since the civil war; now that’s a fucking stat. (He lost, go Giants!)

Back to this weeks abortion of a ballgame though.

Any inclinations that Giants fans had that we might contend in this game, were quickly crushed by Rafeal Furcals lead off homerun in the bottom of the first. They then scored 2 in the second on Fred Lewis’s 3rd error that’s not scored an error (ETNSAE is a stat they should add) of the year.

Zito gave up six runs in just over 5 innings of work. Yes that’s right, he once again can’t go deep into a game. Since 2006, Barry Zito has only hit 8.0 in the innings column 6 times out of 56 starts. No that’s not 6 complete games (which CC Sabathia beat in 2008 with 7) that’s just completing the 8th inning.

Zito did however hit two Dodgers, which is decent.

He finished with 4k’s and 4 walks (and hit two batters) and tossed 94 pitches. He is now on the same stellar pace as last year, with his second straight loss making him 0-2 on the season.

Deja Vu here at TradeBarryZito.com. We got excited after hearing about a great off season for Barry Zito, only to see him throw just like he always does. He was leaving his curveballs up in the zone, he was missing with his fastball and changeup, and his defense let him down. Now, you can’t blame him for the defense having brain fart after brain fart, but you can blame him for the singles and doubles hit off of him in the opening inning.

Barry was able to calm down after a rocky first inning, and his fastball was noticeably quicker. He was hitting 87-88 MPH consistently. If he can get that up to 90, I think Ill have to take this website down.

Just like last year, I feel its important for me to mention why this site is here. Well, I am a diehard Giants fan. I like Barry Zito as a person, but as a Giant it makes me want to pull my hair out every time I see him on the mound because I know what we could be doing for this team if we didn’t have his salary. Hes a good guy, and is very dedicated. He just isn’t good anymore.

It doesn’t matter if he worked out all offseason with Giants Closer Brian Wilson. It doesn’t matter if he started surfing again to keep his mind at ease. He just doesn’t have top of the rotation stuff, and does not deserve the cash we are paying him. I sure hope he is donating a lot of his salary to charity, because he definitely isn’t earning it.

Oh, and wtf is up with Scott Hairston. Robs a homerun from Bengie Molina, than next inning takes one out of the deepest part of the field. That guy kills us every time we play against him. He has 41 career homeruns, and 10 against the Giants.

Here is Barry Zito’s line for the game in a 7-3 loss to the San Diego Padres.

Zito did what Barry Zito does. He lost, he didn’t make it to the seventh inning, but did throw over 100 pitches.

In this interleague match up between the Chicago White Sox and San Francisco Giants, the Giants fell 3-1 after an above average start by Zito.

Mark Buehrle got a needed win after starting 1-5. ZIto falls to 0-8. He did somehow lower his ERA, small battles.

Hell, it isn’t a loss.

Barry Zito took the mound today taking on the Houston Astros. The Giants gave him early support jumping to a 3 run lead by the 4th. Fred Lewis started it off in the 3rd by doubling home Emanuel Burriss. Omar Vizquel matched Freddies double with one of his own scoring Lewis.

In the 4th, rookie Jon Boeker hit a homerun to right to make it 3-0.

3-0 lead should be enough for an ace like Barry Zito to hold correct?  Negative.

After a Miguel Tejada RBI sac fly, Lance Berkman did what he has been doing all season, hit a home run. Zito was pulled as he hit his season long inning max of SIX. He did somehow manage to hit 100 pitches for the 4th time this season.

Since the Giants bullpen sucks, the Astros scored four more runs and thats the ball game.

Zito’s ERA is now down to a beautiful 6.58 but is still stuck without a win this season. Its becoming an awful thing to watch for Giants fans, the fact that Zito has not thrown a pitch in the seven inning this entire season says a lot. Although he is still averaging over 90 pitches a game. Zito will start next against the Chicago White Sox, shit.

The San Francisco Giants continued to do the same they always do when Barry Zito pitches. Lose. This time to the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1.

Most would say this was a good start for Barry Zito, only giving up 2 runs on basically one bad pitch. That pitch happened to be a fastball that came back to the plate and Xavier Nady took it to deep left for his 5th homerun of the season.

Zito once again didn’t make it past the 6.0 mark, this time only going 5.0 innings. He did manage to squeeze 99 pitches into those 5 innings however.

Things did look good for number 75 Barry Zito, but still nothing worth his contract. The hapless Pirates should have been an easy foe for the second highest paid pitcher in the MLB. However, a combination of Zito’s pitching and the Giants shitty offense, resulted in the 21st loss of the season for San Francisco.

Zito set another record being the first former 20-game winner to lose the first seven starts of a season.

Zito’s next start will be Friday May 9th vs. the Philadelphia Phillies . You can buy tickets to the game here .

Barry Zito is terrible. Just god awful.

The Cincinnati Reds beat the hell out of the Giants 10-1 thanks to a 6 run first inning. Brandon Phillips went 3-5 with 2 homeruns and 3 RBI’s.

Zito being the piece of shit he is, got rocked for 8 runs in just 3.0 innings. The scoring began in the first when Phillips singled to shallow right scoring Joey Hairston. Next batter Joey Votto singled to right center scoring Corey Patterson and Jeff Kippinger. Not to be out done, Ryan Freel singled to left center scoring Brandon Phillips and Joey Votto.

The Reds weren’t done yet. Still in the 1st, Paul Blako tripled to deep right center scoring Freel. Later in the 2nd, Keppinger singled to score Patterson, and then in the 3rd pitcher Edinson Volquez grounded out to first scoring Freel.

Zito’s ERA went up to a modest 7.53 and he is now 0-6. This is getting ridiculous. TRADE BARRY ZITO.

The only option we have now is to send Barry to the bullpen, and let him get his shit straight. So far this season after 6 starts we are paying Zito $1.3 million per strikeout.

Yuck.