San Francisco Giants Are Having Fun

Being that I live in Los Angeles now, I've only been able to catch the highlights of the Giants' wins on MLB.com the day after the game or catch the game on MLB.com's virtual game thingy.

Imagine my thrill last night when I dropped into a sushi restaurant that actually had the game on in the bottom of the third.

It immediately made me remember there's a God who loves me and wants me to be happy.  ;-)

Then Mark DeRosa hits into a double play.

The Giants of the last two or three years would have been deflated.

The Giants of this year rip a double down the left field line that stops in the corner to score the runner from first with two outs.

The Giants of this year rip another double into the left field corner, scoring another run...which, come to think of it, is exactly where DeRosa's ball was heading before it was speared and turned into two outs.

Now no one is happier than DeRosa. His team picked him up, and the game was sealed.

Then the Giants put four more on the board. Why? Because it's fun to score runs.

It's fun to hit the ball. It's fun to catch the ball. 

It's fun to run the bases, as Aubrey Huff showed twice last night, scoring from first on Bengie Molina's RBI two-out double in the third and then later hitting a two-out triple and scoring on Bengie's two-out RBI single up the gut of the defense.

It's fun to start two-out rallies. It's fun to get two-out RBI. 

It's fun to watch Barry Zito pitch well. It's fun for Pablo Sandoval to charge soft ground balls down the third-base line and make a leaping throw to nail the runner by a step.

Years past...the Giants just sit around and wait to get hot, having a lukewarm start to the season. Then they're chasing from behind. 

It's fun to be in first place. It's fun to be No. 1.

It feels like Dustiny is back in the Bay.

It's fun to come out of the gates smoking hot. 

And in three days, it's going to be fun beating the Dodgers.