San Francisco Giants: Zito, Sanchez and Cain…Then Let’s Pray for Rain

"First we'll use Spahn, then we'll use Sain. Then an off day, followed by rain. Back will come Spahn, followed by Sain, And followed, we hope, by two days of rain."

Boston Post sports editor Gerald Hern wrote a poem that led to the above hoped for sequence in 1948. Spahn and Sain were the only two solid starting pitchers on the pennant winning 1948 Boston Braves.

While the 2010 San Francisco Giants are not quite in such dire straits, Tim Lincecum is getting close to putting the Giants into a situation where it is rapidly becoming "Zito, Sanchez and Cain, then let's pray for a little rain."

Lincecum has a three game losing streak for the first time in his brief career.

In his last three starts, his ERA is an obsc...

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