Ishikawa saves Bochy's Bacon

Credit for last night's win (we'll pass on the near collapse commentary for the moment) clearly goes to Travis Ishikawa and Matt Cain. The latter for keeping us in the game, the former for jumping on a Jon Rauch change up in the eighth inning for a three run bomb.

There were no glaring errors made by Bochy last night, but the argument can be made that not having Velez lay down a bunt with runners at 1st and 2nd and one out in the bottom of the 7th was a tactical mistake. It would have put runners in scoring position with two outs where a wild pitch, pass ball or a base hit (come on, miracles happen) could have set up a much less stress inducing 8th inning.

The only other thing that probably deserves commenting is that Brian Wilson should not have been in last night. The 41 pitches he threw in Colorado on Monday was clearly a factor last night and it probably would have been best to keep him fresh for the rest of this series and that mildly important weekend matchup with the Rockies.