E.K. NATION

One thing that struck us while looking at the boxscore of last night's 10-8 win over Cinc is the fact that Deivi had 5 RBIs and didn't leave anybody on base. Now, that's a day.

When was the last time two guys from the same team went 5-for-5 in the same game? Nice work, Pedro and Deivi. Coming back to win even though they were behind by three twice? And three relievers (Jeremy Accardo--making his E.K. Nation debut mention right here--Scott Eyre and LaTroy Hawkins) get holds? And then Barry says he might come back in September?

Nah, we don't believe that last one, either, but everything else the last couple of days has been positive. Nineteen hits last night, Randy Winn hit for the cycle on Monday--he still needs 11 more homers as a Giant for us to win this bet we made. We've got two more games with the Reds. We are in good shape to get a couple of needed victories before taking on St. Louis under the Arch this weekend and then Philly at home starting Monday. And then September is made up almost entirely of games against the silly-ass weak N.L. West. We just need to hang around until then. Yes, we have three teams to leap-frog in the division, but it can still be done.

We wonder how many wins the division winner is going to have. Eighty-two, maybe? Should we do that thing they did in Major League? "Every time we win, we peel a section..."