Kawakami: Let’s not get carried away with Zito’s good outing

Why...even Jeff Angus’ fair Game Score system went kablewie after this!

Ten strikeouts? Barry Zito had never gotten so many as a Giants pitcher, so you can understand the gratuitous round of standing ovations that christened his every move late in this game.

It was like cheering Halley’s Comet - a 10-strikeout victory by Zito might not happen again here for 76 years, which is, I believe, the exact length of his contract.

On July 5, 2008, Barry Zito, the $126 million man, actually looked like a pretty decent pitcher. Shoot off those fireworks! Strike up the band!

...Now Zito has to do what he did Saturday only about 11 or 12 more times before the end of September, and then and only then we’ll call this a non-terrible season.

Bochy credited the recent added life on Zito’s fastball, which was timed regularly at 87-88 mph by the home radar gun.

But please: That gun was suspicious only because it officially recorded Dodgers journeyman reliever Brian Falkenborg at 97 mph and unofficially had the Ball Dudes tossing foul balls into the stands at 109.