Very, very cool

The whole win vs. the Rockies was very cool, of course, in all facets. But I'm going to focus on a quote from Pat Burrell after the game in reference to the no-hit bid by Tim Lincecum, because it was very, very cool:

Burrell said he went to manager Bruce Bochy and begged to be taken out, figuring he was a defensive liability in left field late in the game.

"I went in and talked to Bochy and said, 'Listen, I'd hate to be the guy that doesn't get to a ball that somebody else might catch,' " said Burrell, who was replaced by Darren Ford in the middle of the seventh.

Usually I don't take much stock in things said post-game, since they're usually players giving clichéd answers to tired questions. But I thought that was good stuff. So hats off to Burrell...and his cartoon-ish .333 IsoP.

Besides that:

• Freddy Sanchez's pop is an interesting byline to his very good early season start. He's not going to SLG .500+ all season, but at the moment he's more of a threat at the plate than at any point I can remember in a Giants uniform.
• Aaron Rowand has been almost literally feast or famine at the plate. His 13 games played so far are made up of: six multi-hit games, four 0-fers, two pinch-hit appearances where he went 1-for-1, and one inexplicable game where he didn't go bonkers or suck -- he went 1-for-4 that day.
• The Rockies gave Pablo Sandoval about 9 games worth of walks in one game with the 3 walks issued on Monday (well, 9 games worth for Panda, at least).
• Welcome back, Ryan Vogelsong...it's like you never left. And never mind that's because you didn't actually leave -- you were traded, out of MLB for a few years, came back, and it wasn't like you were all that well-known when you were traded anyway. Still though, it's like you never left.
• Retraction: whole win vs. the Rockies wasn't very cool -- Miguel Tejada is starting to get on my nerves. Badly. It isn't that I don't think he can perform better, but I'm just seeing too many histrionics from him after his outs. I know to a degree he's an emotional guy, but there's only so many times you can be demonstratively angry with yourself, an umpire, or your batting helmet after making an out. We get it, Miggy, that's not what you wanted to happen. Let's move on, okay?

And another note on Miggy -- it's still early, but he's currently seeing under 3 p/pa at 2.97. He's never been a particularly patient hitter, but that's running almost half a pitch worse than 2010, which was his lowest recorded p/pa of his career.