While Lincecum showed flashes in 2015, he posted a 4.13 ERA in his final year with the Giants. Tim Lincecum, at least, no-hit the San Diego Padres in 20. Lincecum was mediocre in 2013 and didn’t improve much in 2014. Lincecum’s ERA climbed to 5.18 and he pitched out of the bullpen that October.
Among Lincecum’s highlihts that fall were a 14-strikeout, two-hit shutout of Atlanta in the NL Division Series and a brilliant eight-inning performance in Game 5 of the World Series.įrom 2012 on, though, Tim Lincecum was never the same. Most importantly, Lincecum went 4-1 in the 2010 MLB Playoffs and helped the Giants to a World Series title. Lincecum won 16 games with a 3.43 ERA in 2010 and posted a 2.74 ERA the next year. It is easy to forget Tim Lineceum was still an excellent pitcher in the early years of San Francisco‘s dynasty. Where did the fan favorite ace go? | Doug Pensinger/Getty Images Injuries prematurely ended Linecum’s effectiveness and career Tim Lincecum won two Cy Youngs with the San Francisco Giants, then vanished without a trace. Lincecum and the Giants were poised to enter the 2010s with a bang. Lincecum again prevailed as the Cy Young winner and the Giants improved to 88-74. Lincecum earned NL Cy Young Award honors on a Giants team that went 72-90.Īlthough Lincecum only went 15-7 in 2009, his ERA dropped to 2.48 and he threw four complete games. Nicknamed “The Freak,” Lincecum went 18-5 with a 2.62 ERA and 265 strikeouts as a 24-year-old in 2018. That season went under the radar, though, as it coincided with Bonds’ final season by the bay.įrom there, the next few years belonged to Tim Lincecum. Lincecum went 7-5 with an even 4.00 ERA and 150 strikeouts in 146.1 innings as a rookie in 2007. Lincecum is one of only two pitchers in MLB history to win multiple World Series championships, multiple Cy Young Awards, throw multiple no-hitters, and be elected to multiple All-Star Games, the other being Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax.Tim Lincecum arrived in San Francisco with the highest expectations of any Giant since, arguably, Barry Bonds. Lincecum’s 1,736 career strikeouts are the fifth-most by a pitcher who has more strikeouts than innings pitched, behind Hall of Famers Nolan Ryan, Pedro Martínez, Randy Johnson, and Sandy Koufax. He repeated the feat again the following year, becoming the first MLB pitcher to throw no-hitters against the same team in consecutive seasons. In 2013, Lincecum pitched the first Petco Park no-hitter against the San Diego Padres. He has also appeared in four consecutive All-Star Games, from 2008 through 2011.
Nicknamed “ The Freak” for his ability to generate powerful pitches from his athletic but slight physique, the 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) 170 pounds (77 kg) power pitcher led the National League in strikeouts and strikeouts per nine innings pitched for three consecutive years in a span from 2008 to 2010 as well as shutouts in 2009, helping Lincecum win consecutive Cy Young Awards in 2008 and 2009 to become the first MLB pitcher to win the award in his first two full seasons. That year, Lincecum became the first Washington Husky to be selected in the first round of an MLB Draft, when the San Francisco Giants selected him tenth overall.
Pitching for the Washington Huskies, he won the 2006 Golden Spikes Award. Lincecum was the team’s ace starter in 2010 and relief pitcher in 20, winning the Babe Ruth Award in 2010 as the most valuable player of the MLB postseason.Īfter attending Liberty Senior High School in Renton, Washington, Lincecum played college baseball at the University of Washington. Lincecum helped the Giants win three World Series championships in a five-year span. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants from 2007 to 2015 and for the Los Angeles Angels in 2016, but as of 2020 had not announced his retirement. Timothy Leroy Lincecum ( born June 15, 1984) is an American professional baseball pitcher. Please contact Portnoy Gallery at 70 for size s and prices. *** Larger size art prints and reproductions for all art at Portnoy Gallery are available As well as wall mural size reproduction.