http://0rz.tw/wj0Vn Shaky Lincecum battered by Reds By Chris Haft / MLB.com | 6/11/2011 10:11 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants' starting pitcher Saturday against the Cincinnati Reds physically resembled Tim Lincecum. He wore No. 55 as Lincecum does. He even strode off the mound with his head down and his fielder's glove clamped in his right hand, a familiar Lincecum trait. But that wasn't really Lincecum. The genuine, unadulterated, honest-to-goodness Tim Lincecum dominates hitters, not the other way around. But this Lincecum doppelganger, who has been sighted every five days recently, did a poor job of imitating the real thing as the Reds cruised to a 10-2 victory. All right, that was indeed Lincecum who performed as if AT&T Park's mound were composed of quicksand. He still looked like an alter ego of himself. Lincecum (5-5) lasted four batters into the fifth inning, his shortest outing of the season. He allowed seven earned runs, matching a career high he reached at Toronto on June 13, 2007, during his rookie season. His ERA climbed from 2.85 to 3.41. In three starts this month, Lincecum is 0-1 with a 9.39 ERA. Lincecum also struck out just one batter, the lowest total of his 137-game career. That lone strikeout victim was Drew Stubbs, the game's first hitter. Lincecum's afternoon then proceeded to unravel. The right-hander was somber but calm afterward, since he felt certain about what ailed him. "I was kind of flying all over the place," Lincecum said. "The answer is getting back to the drawing board and getting my mechanics straight. I feel like I'm throwing three different kinds of tosses, thinking about what to do with my arm, what to do with my legs, am I leading with my shoulder, those kinds of things. I just need to stop thinking about that so much and do what I need to do. Right there is the inconsistency." Lincecum insisted that he's not enduring the same woes he experienced late last season. He posted an 0-5 record with a 7.82 ERA in August, then improved to 5-1, 1.94 in September after altering his between-starts conditioning program. "I still feel strong," Lincecum said. "I don't feel unhealthy, I don't feel like anything's bothering me. It's just simply getting back to being me, driving toward the plate, using good mechanics, keeping my rhythm -- kind of 'dummifying' myself, I guess you can say in that sense. Keeping it simple." Lincecum's flawed pitching technique has prevented him from commanding his fastball. His inability to put the fastball where he wants it has rendered his other pitches ineffective. "Most of the time, he'll get ahead and get guys to chase [pitches] out of the zone," Giants catcher Eli Whiteside said. "It's tougher to do that when you fall behind." Manager Bruce Bochy removed Lincecum after Brandon Phillips and Joey Votto hit back-to-back doubles in the fifth inning, driving in three of the four runs in that uprising. Before he makes his next scheduled start in Friday's Interleague series opener at Oakland, Lincecum said that he might try to sharpen his delivery by performing additional "dry drills" -- pantoming his motion to improve his muscle memory. Facing the A's, against whom Lincecum is 5-0 with a 1.17 ERA in six career starts, conceivably could give him a boost. But Lincecum insisted that any improvement he makes will begin and end with him. "The key for me is to get my mental state right and fix what's going on," Lincecum said. Reds manager Dusty Baker praised Lincecum nonetheless. "This guy's one of the best in the business," Baker said of the two-time National League Cy Young Award winner. "He wasn't as sharp today as he usually is." By contrast, Reds starter Mike Leake (6-2) worked eight spotless innings, limiting the Giants to four hits and one walk while striking out a career-high eight. San Francisco appeared destined for its seventh shutout defeat of the season until Pat Burrell, who entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the sixth inning, yanked a two-run homer in the ninth inning off reliever Carlos Fisher. Already dogged by injuries to numerous players -- second baseman Freddy Sanchez became the fifth member of the Opening Day lineup to go on the disabled list -- the Giants skirted further trouble. Center fielder Aaron Rowand was hit on the right wrist by a seventh-inning pitch but avoided a fracture. Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. --

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