Filed under: Giants, Rangers, MLB Playoffs, World Series
SAN FRANCISCO -- Hensley Meulens, who now looks like he has raised the dead, swore he wasn't surprised.But other Giants admitted to being as stunned as the rest of the world at scoring 20 runs in the first two games of the World Series -- more than they managed in six NLCS games.
"I can't say I'm not surprised," second baseman Freddy Sanchez said. "Definitely you've got to be a little bit surprised that we were able to put up those runs. But we'll take it."
The Giants are the second team ever to open the World Series with at least nine runs in each of the first two games. The other was the 1998 Yankees, who swept the Padres (managed by current San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy).
But that Yankees team was a juggernaut from April on. These Giants scored a total of 30 runs in their 10 postseason games before the World Series. They scored six or more runs in an inning five times in the regular season, fewer than once a month.
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Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/10/29/giants-surprise-even-themselves-with-suddenly-potent-offense/
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