Once a team makes the playoffs the starting pitching roster gets shortened and you can win a playoff series with two or three dominant pitchers. If you look around the majors right now, one of the more dominant one/two pitching combinations has to be the Giants with Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain. They are both overpowering . Throw in Randy Johnson with his 301 wins and you have the makings of a great playoff team. Can they make the playoffs?
They are unlikely to win the West as the Dodgers are the hands on favorites. Maybe they can win the wild card. I believe once they get to the playoffs they are a team not many would want to face.
Yesterday, Matt Cain proved again why he is such a dominant pitcher. Cain beat the A's to go 9-1, and joined Marquis and Billingsley with 9 wins. He handled the Oakland squad giving up only 4 hits and 0 walks over 9 innings. He had 9 strikeouts on the day and the only run he gave up was a solo homerun in the first to Jack Cust. Final score was 7-1 and Cain notched career win #39.
With a starting staff of Lincecum, Cain, Johnson, Jonathan Sanchez and the cuveballer Barry Zito, the wild card is not of the realm of possibility. Do you think they can hit enough to make the post season?
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