Tim Lincecum News

If you're me, then "settling in" means making sure I've got a tall, cold drink and an open box of Red Vines before the movie starts.

It's beginning to look like this just isn't Ryan Vogelsong's year. Even when he pitches well, it's a letdown.

After the most recent road trip, when the San Francisco Giants went 1-5 against the Toronto Blue Jays and Colorado Rockies , fans are starting to run around like Chicken Little, proclaiming that the sky is falling.

Former Great Lakes Loons star Clayton Kershaw put himself in select company this season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, but using 20/20 hindsight, the star left-hander could have been a Detroit Tiger.

The San Francisco Giants put Ryan Vogelsong on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday and prepared to be without their right-hander for two months in yet another challenge for their struggling starting rotation.

Tim Lincecum tries to string back-to-back wins together for the first time this season on Saturday when the San Francisco Giants continue their four-game series with the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.

The Rockies no longer seemed to be waiting for Godot, Guffman and Bob Gibson on Saturday night.

Padres manager Bud Black and Donavan Tate share a laugh before a 2009 game, shortly after Tate was drafted No.

He was a highly regarded rookie with the team 13 years ago, a big, rangy flame-thrower. After being traded to Pittsburgh in 2001, surgery and struggles saw him wash out of the majors, and he ended up in Japan for three nothing-special seasons, then hit bottom in the minors in 2010.

With Colorado starter Jeff Francis moving to the disabled list on Thursday with a left groin strain, the Rockies called up right-hander Tyler Chatwood to start Saturday's game against the Giants.

Before the 2012 season, Tim Lincecum made a decision to reject a four year, $100 million contract extension from the San Francisco Giants and instead, opted to sign a two year, $40.5 million contract which would make him a free agent after the 2013 season.

Lifelong San Francisco Giants fan Wanda Zimmerman was one of the winners of the Major League Baseball's Honorary Bat Girl Contest.

MLB Team Report - Philadelphia Phillies - INSIDE PITCH At the beginning of the Phillies seven-game west coast trip through San Francisco and Phoenix, Kyle Kendrick held the defending World Champion San Francisco Giants to two runs in seven innings to out-pitch two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum and lead the Phillies to their second ... (more)

Home plate umpire Dan Lassogna points to the bull pen as San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy brings in pitcher Tim Lincecum in the fourth inning against the Cincinnati Reds during Game 4 of their MLB NLDS playoff baseball series in Cincinnati, Ohio October 10, 2012.

As if the pitching needed a boost, Matt Adams is back from the disabled list. Meantime, rookie Shelby Miller retired 27 straight in a one-hitter. Over their final three games, the Giants outscored the Braves 23-4. Matt Cain, Madison Bumgarner and Tim Lincecum combined to throw 22 innings, allowing just three runs.

The Giants are in first place once again, and with a pitching rotation that sports such names as Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain, and Madison Bumgarner, you'd think the main reason for their ranking atop the NL West would be due to some superlative pitching.

SAN FRANCISCO – After his last start against the Phillies, the eighth outing in a span of 10 by the Giants' rotation that did not qualify as a quality start, Tim Lincecum said he expected there would be some discussion among the five about righting what has been an up-and-down month and a half to start the season.

Despite an extra-inning loss against the San Francisco Giants last week, the Phillies must have felt pretty good about themselves.

Tim Lincecum tossed seven shutout innings in the San Francisco Giants' 5-1 win over the Atlanta Braves in the finale of a four-game set.

Pablo Sandoval splashed a home run into McCovey Cove, Brandon Belt and Marco Scutaro also connected to back Tim Lincecum, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Atlanta Braves 5-1 on Sunday to wrap up a strong homestand.