Torture

The San Francisco giants games are affectionately called "torture" by their fans. This is because they have been in a high-pressure, playoff push since early Sept and in actual playoffs this month and they always play agonizingly close games. They have great pitching and questionable hitting. This means they play a lot of close, low-scoring games that end up torturing their fans until the last pitch. I can't remember too many giants games that were blowouts one way or the other. Brian Wilson joked today "I got anxiety. I got a mini-ulcer developing". Now, they are really torturing the Philies who are trailing the series 3-1. Roy Halladay is pitching tomorrow, but then again, so is Timmy Lincecum. The giants pitching is good enough to neutralize the Phillies pitching and this dude Cody Ross has looked like Babe Ruth so far. Hitting was supposed to be Phillies strength, but so far this entire playoffs has been about pitching. Oswalt volunteered to pitch the ninth inning today and lost the game. The whiz-kid Buster Posey had 4 hits including a key one in the 9-Th against Oswalt. Posey is clearly the Giant's MVP this season. What a talent he is!

The giants are playing very well right now and the chemistry is building and the experience of growing. I can easily see Lincecum slamming the door on the Phillies tomorrow. The Giants are the under-dogs and there still seems to a lot of fans nationally who are just assuming the Phillies will win 3 in a row and take the series. Thats easier said than done. H2O with Halladay, Hamels and Oswalt is pretty formidable, but Sanchez, Cain and Lincecum are no slouches either except in the nick-name department. Closing out this series is gonna be difficult for the Giants like Texas learnt today, but the Giants will have their horse on the mound tomorrow. All stars are aligned for the giants. Texas, on the other hand, is now going back home leading 3-2 and they got 2 games to close the Yankees out. Hope they don't slack off in game 6 hoping Cliff Lee will take care of things in game 7. I can't believe the SF giants or the Texas rangers could be World Series bound, but it could happen. A Giants-Rangers World Series might be the league and the television channel's worst nightmare. In any case, the giants fans don't care. They are just ready for another torture tomorrow.