Monday BP: Giants’ offensive woes in NLDS partially explained

D. Ross Cameron-USA TODAY Sports Good morning, baseball fans

Andrew Baggarly of The Athletic had a really good piece on Friday that covered the entire range of emotions and circumstances involving the San Francisco Giants’ Game 5 NLDS loss on Thursday. Something that stood out to me was this section, in a section where Baggarly discusses the team’s reaction to discovering who their umpire crew for the series would be.

The Giants, who built so much of their offensive success on zone discipline, and who would be facing the best pitching staff in the National League, felt that they would get just one better than average plate umpire, Pat Hoberg, in the series. They knew the umpiring crew would…