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Due to the chance of inclement weather Wednesday night, the Giants scratched Lincecum from his scheduled start against the Dodgers and replaced him with Merkin Valdez. Lincecum entered the game later and got the win in relief.  Manager Bruce Bochy put Lincecum into the game in the fourth inning thinking that the inclement weather had passed. Instead, a storm hit and forced a 72-minute rain delay after entering the game as a reliever. Lincecum pitched in relief on both sides of a 1-hour, 14-minute rain delay and scored the go-ahead run on Randy Winn’s sacrifice fly to help the San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-1. Lincecum (1-0) threw 84 pitches over four innings, allowing a run and four hits with four walks and four strikeouts. It was pretty disturbing that the Giants left Lincecum in. The Dodgers didn’t do the same with Chad Billingsley even though the Giants were the ones at the plate when play was halted. That meant Billingsley’s delay would have been the actual 72 minutes, while Lincecum actually went 94 in between pitches.  (Rotoworld, Rotowire, CBS Sports)

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