2012 World Series: Bumgarner Deals in San Francisco Giants’ Game 2 Victory

The greatest offense the MLB had to offer in 2012 has been completely shut down through the first two games of the World Series.

            They’ve been shut down not by the top pitching staff in all of baseball, but by a team whose biggest weakness heading into the World Series was arguably their starting pitching.

            A left-for-dead Barry Zito and a struggling Madison Bumgarner have sent the favored Detroit Tigers into a 2-0 hole to start the World Series.

            Bumgarner did the damage in Game 2 on Thursday night.

NLCS: Giants announce Bumgarner, Vogelsong Starters in Games 1 and 2

 It was not long after the St. Louis Cardinals came from well behind the Washington Nationals to win Game 5 of the NLDS that Bruce Bochy and the San Francisco Giants announced their first two starters of the NLCS.

            The Giants were presumably docked in Cincinnati waiting to know where they would be playing in the NLCS.

            They found out they would be heading home to start the series on Sunday.

San Francisco Giants: Taking A Look at the Starting Rotation in NLCS

The San Francisco Giants became the first team in MLB history to claim victory in a five-game series by winning three straight games on the road, and now the waiting begins.

            If the Nationals take down the Cardinals at home in Game 5 Friday night, then the Giants will travel to Washington D.C. to play the first two games of the series.

            If St. Louis takes down the Nationals, then the Giants start at AT&T Park in front of a home crowd ready to welcome home a team they never saw win in the 2012 NLDS.