Sports Illustrated gives Giants run support
By: Ken Garcia
Examiner Staff Writer
08/28/09 11:15 AM PDT
The Giants weekend series against the Colorado Rockies starting tonight could decide whether San Francisco sneaks into the post-season, but they may have gotten an unexpected boost from an unlikely source.
That would be Sports Illustrated, the national sports magazine, that was kind enough to leave a feature on the Giants’ dynamic pitching duo of Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain off of it’s the primary focus of its cover. (It was given a little tease.)
You know, the one that jinxes all who dare grace it.
SI said the “prodigiously fearsome tandem’’ will likely determine whether the Giants make a run at the NL wildcard, and talks about how competitive the two are – down to the fact that the team won’t let them play catch with each other because they have a tendency to start throwing 90-mile-per-hour fastballs at each other.
With both pitchers having ERAs under 2.50, something accomplished only twice since 1920, SI said that the chance the Giants could have two hurlers throwing this well together “is the historical equivalent of the same person hitting the lottery twice.’’
The Giants would probably take hitting of any kind, since their offense is what’s kept them from catching up to the Rockies. A few runs would go a long way – Lincecum is 27-3 when the team scores more than three runs for him.
For the record, speed merchant Usain Bolt was SI’s cover boy – and we can’t thank him fast enough.
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