The more things change, the more they stay the same.  For six innings, Texas Rangers pitcher C.J. Wilson held the offense of the San Francisco Giants in check.  However, after a blister split open on his middle finger (he’d been gluing the blister shut for weeks), Wilson was pulled and the Texas bullpen as lit up.  Already leading 2-0, the Giants lit up Texas in the eighth inning, scoring 7 runs off of the Rangers bullpen.  The Giants beat the Rangers 9-0 to take a 2-0 lead in the World Series.  The Giants are only one of four teams to score over 20 runs in its first two World Series games; so much for the year of the pitcher!

“If it had happened between innings or something, I could have super-glued it,” Wilson said of his split finger.  “But they’re not going to let you super-glue your finger because maybe that’s a performance-enhancer or some crap like that.”  However, Wilson didn’t excuse his team for its performance, adding, “We’re not playing to our potential.  We’re not playing the kind of baseball that got us here, that’s for sure.  We kind of look at each other like, you know, this is going like crap right now.”

Perhaps the bigger story isn’t the Giants bats, but the Giants pitchers.  Game Two starter Matt Cain hasn’t given up a run in over 21 postseason innings, and he’s not even their top starter; that would be Game One starter Tim Lincecum!  Yet here’s Matt Cain, just quietly getting guys out without raising too much of a ruckus about his own performance.

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