Giants Update: Pitching carrying team

I owe Barry Zito a momentary apologize.

Since I wrote a lengthy post in April titled "Can We Get Our Money Back" in reference to Zito taking the Giants money and not producing, he has simply been dominate.

In Zito's last three starts, he has thrown 20 1/3 innings and allowed only three runs, all coming in one inning.

The Giants as a whole are over .500 25 games into the season for what has to be the first time since 2004. I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty excited about this fact.

Unfortunately, the Dodgers have decided to win every game at home this year, thus the Giants are still 5.5 games back in the NL West Standings.

Regardless, Tim Lincecum dominated the Cubs yesterday in a 6-2 win. Matt Cain is throwing the ball great this year and receiving more run support than he has got in his whole career. Randy Johnson's age may become a factor at some point this year, but right now his fastball is in the low 90s and his slider is still as dirty as ever. Even Jonathan Sanchez, at least until last start, has shown a new perpensity for control.

The Giants offense has been pretty pitiful though. Edgar Renteria is hitting in the .260s, not what you want from your $9 million shortstop. And Randy Winn is hitting in the .220s, but you can bank a summer surge from Winn, who always ends up batting around .300.

Pablo Sandoval swings at everything, and I'm starting to believe that he may have a very successful baseball career doing so. A .317 average this year and a .344 average last year can't be a complete fluke. After facing hundreds of big-league pitchers, Sandoval simply chases bad pitches and lines them into the allies like they are fastball right down the middle.

The Ishikawa and Burriss experiment is failing right now, and before long the Giants will need an upgrade at first and second if they want to contend for a World Series Ring.