SF Giants Lesser Known Struggle: League’s Best Pitching Every Other Day

The book on the Giants reads like this: the team has an excellent pitching staff but struggles to push runs across the plate. If anything keeps them from winning, it will be their lineup which lacks a true middle of the order hitter and often features some no-name hitters towards the bottom of the lineup.

Approaching the All-Star break, however, I am beginning to rethink this dilemma.

After watching Jonathan Sanchez labor through another start on Monday against the lowly A's and remembering the pitiful Angels series in which the Giants starters got rocked in the first two games of the series for over seven runs each, I'm starting to wonder just how good the Giants pitching staff really is.

First, the obvious. Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain have been absolutely dom...

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