Giants' Big Money Molina Pays Out Yet Again, Erases Bad Memories of Monday Night

The forces of baseball good and evil are clashing in 2009 as they do every year. One theater of Major League Baseball war can be found in the San Francisco Giants' season and the current landscape looks like Antietam—both sides have suffered gruesome casualties, there is no clear victor, but momentum is on the good guys' side. Thanks to Bengie Molina, sore legs and all. The last week of August didn't start off so well for the Orange and Black. I've written all I care to write about the debacle on Monday night. Let's say it had the potential to derail the season and leave it at that. Score one seismic W for the evil Baseball Gods. But the club bounced back and notched a win via perseverance against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday. There's little doubt the Gents were happy to be back home after an 11-game, transcontinental roadie. Buoyed by the City's adulation and another blinder from Matt Cain, they hung tough and made a Travis Ishikawa th...