Filed under: Giants, Phillies, MLB Playoffs, National League Championship SeriesPHILADELPHIA -- Lurking beneath all the happy talk about Cody Ross and Tim Lincecum and Cody Ross and Pat Burrell and Brian Wilson and Cody Ross, the unwavering truth about the Giants is that this is a team that is flawed.
All of that great pitching has simply carried a lineup that relies heavily on guys who hit the ball over the fence -- hello, Cody -- and they don't even do that very often. The Giants have been unable to generate much in the way of sustained offense for, what, six weeks now, and one of the main reasons is that their sparkplug has been extinguished.
Andres Torres came out of nowhere to be a revelation at the top of the order, but lately he's gone right back from where he came.
Torres was not the only goat in the Giants' 6-1 loss to the Phillies in Game 2 of the NLCS. There was also a wobbly outing by Jonathan Sanchez, team-wide defensive lapses and a bad pitch by reliever Santiago Casilla that turned into a three-run double by Jimmy Rollins, but those things were more isolated incidents that can be shrugged off. Torres' performance has been a nagging problem for weeks, and he hit rock bottom on Sunday.
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