Giants News and Notes: Fire Bochy and Send Down Ishikawa and Burriss

The San Francisco Giants are 8-9 and have played a lot better since starting the season 2-7.

Travis Ishikawa is just not producing in the majors. His .191 batting average is terrible and he has no homers as well. I believe the Giants should send him down to Fresno and bring up John Bowker.

Bowker is hitting .300 in Fresno with a homer and seven RBIs. He is more of a threat to hit the ball out of the ballpark than Ishikawa.

The team should still fire Bruce Bochy and hire Ron Wotus as interim manager for the rest of the year.

Bochy does not have confidence in any of his young batters. He hardly ever plays OFs Nate Schierholtz or Andres Torres.

When a lefty is starting, Bochy will always bench Ishikawa and start Rich Aurilia.

The Dodgers' pitcher Eric Stults is a lefty who pitches better against righties than lefties but Bochy still started Aurilia over Ishikawa last week when Stults pitched against the Giants. Either Bochy is stubborn or did not know that Stults has more trouble against lefties.

Bochy had Brandon Medders pitch in extra innings yesterday and Medders pitched well until Bochy made Medders go out for a third inning. That was just too much to ask out of Medders and Bochy finally took him out when Arizona had the bases loaded with just one out. Stupid decisions like this makes fans hate Bochy more and more.

You can find Barry Zito on Twitter at http://twitter.com/barryzito and Brian Wilson at http://twitter.com/brianwilson38.

Zito had a rough game against the Dodgers in Los Angeles but he will try to pitch better tonight against the Dodgers at home. The Giants have a good chance to win tonight as the Dodgers are sending out Randy Wolf.

The Dodgers will have Chad Billingsley starting tomorrow night and he is 4-0 and dominated the G-Men last time out with 11 strikeouts.

Another player that is struggling and making a lot of bonehead plays on the basepaths is Emmanuel Burriss. Burriss is batting .179 with only three RBIs. Let's bring Kevin Frandsen up and send Burriss down to Fresno.

Observations from Giants/Dodgers Game: Bruce Bochy Should Be Fired

The Dodgers defeated the Giants 5-4 tonight.

Bruce Bochy should be fired as the manager of the Giants. This guy is a horrible manager and should never have been hired.

Bochy kept reliever Jeremy Affeldt in the game to start the eighth inning after he pitched a scoreless seventh inning. Affeldt gives up a base hit to the first batter in the inning and then gets the hook.

Bochy puts in Bob Howry to replace Affeldt who gives up a double to his first batter. Howry struggles the whole inning but only gives up two runs in the eighth. Dodgers do tie up the game at four.

Instead of bringing in his closer in the ninth inning, Bochy kept Howry on the mound and Howry finally leaves after the Dodgers load the bases with no outs.

Wilson comes on with the bases loaded and no outs and gets one out on a Russell Martin grounder but walks in James Loney for the winning run.

Howry struggled in the eighth inning and should have been yanked after that but Bochy kept him in. Giants fans are sick of Bochy's stupid decisions.

Matt Cain did well in giving up only two runs in six innings. He struggled with his command all game long and had four walks.

James Loney is a very patient hitter. The Dodgers lineup is stacked with great hitters. This is a very dangerous offensive team.

Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw looked like Cy Young tonight. He struck out 13 batters tonight.

The Giants are a terrible team. Why did they keep Emmanuel Burriss and send Kevin Frandsen to the minors? What a stupid move.

Fred Lewis struck out four straight times. He is not a number three hitter. This team will have trouble scoring since they are not a home run hitting team.

Can Barry Zito be the savior tomorrow for the Giants?