Some simple fact that many overlook on Giants and Rangers
Giants hit 21 more extra base hits than Rangers did this year (16 more doubles, 5 more triples, and the same HRs)
They did this playing home games in a pitchers ball park while the Rangers hit in a hitters ball park
They did this with No DH and their pitchers batting roughly 10% of the time.
They did this w/o Burrell, Posey, Ross, Guillen, etc, fora good % of the season.
If you reduce the Rangers to a NL team by removing their DH stats (57 Extra base hits, .300 average), then the Giants will have a team batting average very close to what the Rangers had, but the Giants would hit over 75 more extra base hits, and a far higher slugging %
And they call SF "The Hitless Wonders" haha
PS also take in the fact that the Giants pitching staff in last 8-9 weeks have put up numbers that rival some of the best in Baseballs History.
Underdog? .... I love it!