Another Rough Outing for Tim Lincecum
April 12, 2009 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Baseball
Last season, Tim Lincecum of the San Francisco Giants won the National League Cy Young Award. This season, Lincecum has two very rough outing to his credit. On Sunday, he registered the loss as the Giants fell to the San Diego Padres by a final count of 6-1.
Tim Lincecum, San Francisco Giants (Image: Newscom)
Against the Padres, Lincecum went 5.1 innings while allowing four earned runs, three walks and a career-high 10 hits. In his first start of the season, Lincecum gave up three earned runs in three innings against the Milwaukee Brewers. His ERA on the 2009 baseball season is now 7.56.
Last season, the 23-year-old had a 2.62 ERA as he went 18-5 with 265 strikeouts in 227 innings. His Cy Young Award came in his second season in the big leagues.
The hitting stars for San Diego were Adrian Gonzalez and Chase Headley. Gonzalez went 2-for-5 with two runs and an RBI, while Headley went 2-for-4 with two runs, two RBI and a two run homer off of Lincecum in the third inning.
With the win, the Padres improved to 5-2. The Giants are now 2-4 on the season.
