Matt Cain's a Hell of a Drug: Giants Win, 3-1

Matt Cain strikes out five batters while Roger Bernadina attempts to steal second.

Matt Cain tosses a complete-game, 11-strikeout, 1-run affair while allowing one walk and five hits. He doubles in the first run of the game for his first RBI of the year. HE SLIPS THE SURLY BONDS OF EARTH TO TOUCH THE FACE OF GOD

I won't say it's the best game I've ever seen Cain throw, but man alive, was it close. The Giants take the series and ensure they'll remain in first place regardless of what the stupid Diamondbacks do this evening.

The Giants were kind of all over the place in this one. Eli Whiteside had two hits, but both times he attempted to throw out base runners, he winged the ball four feet high of his target. So the Giants still looked like the Giants today, especially with Tejada and Rowand still in there against a righty for some reason. But for the first time this season, they managed to make the Nationals look like the Nationals, and that is pretty great.

It looks like Brandon Crawford is for real. Even if he couldn't hit a lick, he is absolutely murdering it on defense, which is invaluable for the Giants at SS right now. Luckily for everyone, Crawford is now two weeks into his major league career and still sporting an OPS of over .900. RAD.

Slightly off-topic: how perfect is it that Brian Wilson's ninth-inning entrance music is "Jump Around?" Separating Wilson from the endless iterations of "Enter Sandman" and "Iron Man" and "Hell's Bells" and "Smoke on the Water" or whatever, it captures his attitude in a way that most outside observers don't really get. Closer entrance themes are usually centered on "This guy is a stone badass" or "This guy is dangerous and unpredictable" or "Watch out for me, g-d it, I am metal as hell" but Wilson's theme says, "What's up dudes, it is about to be a party." And that is tremendous. Brian Wilson is pretty intense, and pretty metal, but he is probably the closest MLB is ever going to get to having their own personal Andrew WK. It's a save situation, so jump around. Things are about to get fun.