SAN FRANCISCO—Tim Lincecum is slated to start Sunday for the San Francisco Giants against Milwaukee as planned, even after the right-hander missed Tuesday's All-Star game with flulike symptoms and dehydration.
Yet Giants manager Bruce Bochy is leaving open the option of pushing Lincecum back if needed -- and perhaps backing off his workload some in the second half.
The hard-throwing right-hander was hospitalized in New York and missed his first All-Star game at Yankee Stadium.
"He's doing fairly well," Bochy said during a team workout Thursday. "He's got a cold. From what I understand he's doing much better. We had a few guys who got sick there the last road trip. ... We're going to check on (Lincecum). He is somebody we're going to keep an eye on and monitor him the second half because we know his innings are going to be up there."
The 24-year-old Lincecum, in his second major league season, is 11-2 with a 2.57 ERA and 135 strikeouts in 19 starts and 20 appearances for the Giants this year.
