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“The Giants offense stepped up to save Tim Lincecum’s butt.” You can probably count on one hand how often that has happened over the last few years, but with Halloween coming up, perhaps the Giants called on some supernatural powers to guide their hits to safe landing. Spurring the Giants to their 11-7 victory was their own pieced together murderers row with Juan Uribe clubbing a three run home run, Aubrey Huff contributing three hits, and Freddy Sanchez, the club-footed wonder, hitting three doubles off of Cliff Lee on his way to a 4-5 night. When Sanchez is right, there’s not a ball he can’t foul off or deposit to the gap for a double and that’s exactly what he did tonight while driving in three runs. Sanchez gets a lot of flack for all the things he’s not. He doesn’t draw a lot of walks, he doesn’t hit for power and his defense is considered the essence of average in some circles. But he does a lot of things well too, and tonight he showed off the form that gave him the 2006 NL batting title. In the name of openness and honesty, I have named various fantasy teams after Freddy Sanchez, so perhaps I am biased. But for all the Steady Freddy fanatics left out there, tonight was a special evening. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

“The Giants offense stepped up to save Tim Lincecum’s butt.” You can probably count on one hand how often that has happened over the last few years, but with Halloween coming up, perhaps the Giants called on some supernatural powers to guide their hits to safe landing.

Spurring the Giants to their 11-7 victory was their own pieced together murderers row with Juan Uribe clubbing a three run home run, Aubrey Huff contributing three hits, and Freddy Sanchez, the club-footed wonder, hitting three doubles off of Cliff Lee on his way to a 4-5 night. When Sanchez is right, there’s not a ball he can’t foul off or deposit to the gap for a double and that’s exactly what he did tonight while driving in three runs.

Sanchez gets a lot of flack for all the things he’s not. He doesn’t draw a lot of walks, he doesn’t hit for power and his defense is considered the essence of average in some circles. But he does a lot of things well too, and tonight he showed off the form that gave him the 2006 NL batting title.

In the name of openness and honesty, I have named various fantasy teams after Freddy Sanchez, so perhaps I am biased. But for all the Steady Freddy fanatics left out there, tonight was a special evening.

(Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

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