Power and pitching again propel Giants over Braves

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Atlanta -- - When the Giants go through their next bad patch - and they will - perhaps they can harken to the moments before Saturday night's 3-1 victory against the Braves, when Tim Lincecum busted up the dugout and umpires when he took the lineup card to home plate.

Lincecum donned his black glasses and stuck a towel under his replica 1946 San Francisco Sea Lions uniform so he could look like a, what, fat manager from 1946?

"I had a good pregame meal," Lincecum said. "I was able to shed it by the first inning. The umpires looked at me like I'm an idiot, so I guess I'm an idiot."

But a happy idiot, for this is what winning teams do and how they act. They find ways to laugh at themselves before, during and after the tight games that closer Sergio Romo so eloquently described as "grindy."

The Giants own the third-best record in the majors at 19-11. They have won eight of their past nine and finally found the proper formula for winning a series in this city: hit nothing but solo home runs and get shutdown pitching from their fourth and fifth starters.

http://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/Power-and-pitching-again-propel-Giants-over-Braves-5451505.php#photo-6256739

video: http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/8878828/v32589769/?c_id=sf

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. Good game. Congrats to the Giants.

Came out like gangbusters; Braves already in an early slump.

[Kingofalldems]

2. The Beast Michael Morse dominating

We trained him, BTW.