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He gave up five runs, yet his ERA fell. Not much. It still is embarrassingly high, 10.54, but maybe Tim Lincecum has regained some of that edge with the slider and some of that swagger in his manner.
The possibility was enticing. Lincecum, the San Francisco Giants' two-time Cy Young Award winner, against Roy Halladay of the Phillies, also twice a winner of the Cy Young, if once in the American League.
Hey, someone joked in the press box before Monday night's opening pitch, "It probably will be 10-8.'' It wasn't, although the prediction seemed accurate early, Lincecum again starting poorly and Halladay also wobbling in the first inning, if not as severely.
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