Giants Anemic Offense Continues to Waste Elite Pitching Staff's Performances

After this latest disappointing performance at the dish, the Giants have now lost four of their last five games.

The most frustrating thing about this skid, though, is that they've only been outscored 11-7 during this stretch.

That just goes to show how much the offense has been killing the team as a whole.

A hot start vaulted them to the top of the NL West, but their lack of production has slowly chipped away at the early cushion they built for themselves.

It's not just one or two players bringing down the team, either, as almost every single hitter in the lineup has been dreadful for over a month now.

There just doesn't seem to be any coherent approach at the plate, which has, in turn, led to elite pitching performances going to waste.

San Francisco still has some time to figure things out, but it's clear that moves are going to have to be made at the deadline to get this offense back on track. The pitching is championship caliber, but they will not reach that level with the lineup they currently have.

Buster Posey and the rest of the front office will have some serious work to do if they want to avoid letting the best pitching staff in baseball go entirely to waste.

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