The San Francisco Giants have won their first World Series, after a half-century in the city by the bay.

The San Francisco Giants have won their first World Series, after a half-century in the city by the bay.

Lincecum had his backyard whiffle ball stuff dancing, and dat was da name o' dat tune.

The Giants started to attract everyone's attention in September, when their pitchers amassed a 1.78 ERA and held opponents to a .182 batting average.

Was September a fluke or were their pitchers really that good? Post season pitching: Matt Cain 3-0 0.00 ERA, Madison Bumgarner 2-0 2.18 ERA, Tim Lincecum 4-1 2.43 ERA, Brian Wilson 1-0 0.00 ERA 6 Saves. Among all those games, the only loss was to Doc Halladay, the best pitcher on the planet.

Overall, the Jints went 5-2 against the quartet of Cliff Lee, Roy Halladay, Roy Oswalt, and Cole Hamels. So imagine this: you pick up essentially the four best pitchers in baseball not already on the Giants roster and challenge the Giants to play seven games. Would you expect them to beat you 5-2? Well, that's how good they were! Damned good.

The strangely sad Giant: former Cy Young winner Barry Zito, who makes $18.5 million per year, and made 33 starts during the year, same as the Big Three. Zito started the season 7-2, then fell apart. He went 2-12 the rest of the way. In August we was 0-4 with a 7.76 ERA. When the Giants made the post-season, they told Zito to rest up for spring training.