I struggle to understand why people lump our pitching in with our hitting as to why we lost the NLCS. Our pitching wasn’t perfect, it could have been better against a really elite lineup, but you can win an NLCS with the pitching we had. They kept us in every single game. Some guys had great individual performances and others did not.
Our hitting problems were a significantly greater contributor to losing this series. We did not just hit badly, it was historically badly. The performances were woeful across the board except for maybe 1-2 guys.
You hate to just pin it on one group but when you literally needed to pitch 4 shutouts to win the series, the hitting really was the full stop reason for our unsightly exit.