Tim Lincecum, SF Giants' 14-Strike Outs, Beats Braves 1 - 0 NLDS Game 1

San Francisco Giants Pitcher Tim Lincecum is amazing and amazingly cool. This blogger just returned home from the most incredible baseball defensive display ever personally witnessed.

The scene was tonight at AT&T Park for game one of the NLDS.  The Giants won a shutout, 1 to 0, and Lincecum played nine innings.

It all started with a text from this blogger's friend Emily, who hails from Atlanta, and is a big Braves fan. What we witnessed, great for me, not so for her because it was a loss for the Braves, was a 14-strike-out performance by perhaps the greatest pitcher of our generation.

Tim Lincecum played the entire game and with an ice-water cool such that it seems he was in a studio instead of a record crowd of over 43,000 people. Even Emily, the die-hard Braves fan, said Tim Lincecum's game was on another level. His 14-Ks (strike outs) was a SF Giants franchise record.

Buster Posey Catches A Break

One of the turning point plays involved Buster Posey, who singled in the fourth, then stole second. Or so we thought. According to The Sporting News, Braves second baseman Brooks Conrad tagged him, but second-base umpire Paul Emmel missed the tag and called Posey safe.

Posey eventually scored to make it 1 - 0.

Interesting, because in witnessing the play, it looked like he was tagged out, only to be called safe. So the assumption was that the tag was missed. It wasn't.

That news doesn't make Braves fans happy.

Just ask Emily.

Game two is Friday night in San Francisco.