The Giants are Streaking. But I’d like them to Stop

The San Francisco Giants have ripped off an eight-game winning streak in a last ditch effort to try and rekindle some of last season’s magic.  Personally I hope they don’t.  What is it with teams from California that have great pitching and little hitting?  The Angels, the A’s and the Giants I’d say all fall into that category.  Good grief – they constructed Petco Park in San Diego with these very principals in mind – I guess the engineers were fans of 1-0 baseball games.

Look, I can find pitching duels to be exciting, but if the Giants get into the postseason again, it will hurt the overall viewing product.  Can you imagine if the Giants opened up in Philadelphia?  You might have multiple 0-0 ties going into extra innings.
In San Francisco’s defense, Bruce Bochy and his ball club are on a terror thanks in large part to their offense, which has come alive of late, but probably not soon enough.

For starters, former Metropolitan Carlos Beltran has decided to join the party, as he’s 14 for his last 30 including 3 dingers.

Perhaps you heard Pablo Sandoval actually hit for the cycle the other night.  Yes indeed, that happened, but that’s not even the half of it.  In the last two weeks the Panda is 20-46 with 6 homers and 14 RBIs en route to a .435/.490/1.000 line.

Cody Ross and Aubrey Huff are also heating up as they’ve hit for well over .300 in the last week.  And you got three pitchers in their rotation who have contributed multiple base knocks in the last week.

As it stands now, the Giants have a long way to go if they want tickets to the postseason party.  They are four games behind in the wild card, and five games behind in their division with only nine games left to play.  They also have a tall order tomorrow night, as they travel to L.A. for a three-game set with some kid named Kershaw taking the ball in game one.  The good news is Brian Wilson is reportedly ready to return Tuesday night.

I don’t mean to poo poo on San Francisco’s run.  It’s a nice story that there is some form of chase going down in these last few days of the season.  I think it was Jon Morosi who said that the Giants payroll out on the field for game one of the world series last year was $23 million dollars.  If that is the case, that’s awesome.  But I need the allusion that there might actually be some runs put up on the scoreboard.  I think I fell asleep twice for two Giant’s playoff games last year, and I would wake up when the game was over and think, “Hey wait, I thought I liked baseball.”

People.  Don’t you want to see the Phillies or the Brewers try and squeeze out a run on Venters and Kimbrel.  Or don’t you want to see what the Diamondbacks are made of thrown into an intense playoff series?  Look, I like Brian Wilson’s beard as much as the next guy, but I gotta say, I hope the Giants get their clothes back on soon, and their streaking comes to a hault.