There's plenty of blame to go around obviously but the starting pitching has failed us first and foremost, how the hell are the Giants shutting out a high powered offense like the Dodgers with relative no name guys? We supposedly had one of the best starting pitching rotations in MLB but they all failed to even give us 5 quality innings. You can3get far with your starters not stepping up. Great pitching beats great offenses, always has, always will. For whatever reason, our starters have just not delivered when they had to.