By Tony Jackson
SAN FRANCISCO - During a casual moment about an hour before game time, just after explaining why his own starting pitcher was batting eighth, Dodgers manager Joe Torre started to sound like a man walking past a graveyard at midnight.
Asked about Tim Lincecum, the baby-faced assassin and reigning National League Cy Young Award winner who was about to take the mound for the San Francisco Giants, Torre said he hoped his hitters would exhibit their usual degree of patience and drive up his pitch count early, a clear acknowledgment that such a strategy was really the Dodgers' only hope of beating him.
By the end of the top of the first inning, a point at which Lincecum had thrown a grand total of five pitches, it was pretty clear where this one was headed.
Asked about Tim Lincecum, the baby-faced assassin and reigning National League Cy Young Award winner who was about to take the mound for the San Francisco Giants, Torre said he hoped his hitters would exhibit their usual degree of patience and drive up his pitch count early, a clear acknowledgment that such a strategy was really the Dodgers' only hope of beating him.
By the end of the top of the first inning, a point at which Lincecum had thrown a grand total of five pitches, it was pretty clear where this one was headed.
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