While we all want to just forget about this most recent series in Philly there are some key takeaways to look at. We already discussed the home runs allowed in Monday’s 11-0 beating but right now we are going to focus on the strike outs. Mondays the Giants struck out 12 times which sounds bad, until you keep looking at the rest of the series. Game 2 we saw Aaron Nola shut down the Giants offense and Derek Holland serve up some hanging breaking balls. The Giants went from 12 strikeouts in the first game and against Nola struck out 17 times in game 2. Game 3 was a rough one with an 11-3 final and the Giants struck out 11 times. In the course of the first 3 games the Giants struck out 40 times. Vince Velasquez started game 4 for the Phillies and went 6 innings striking out 12. The game wasn’t even over before they had beaten the previous record for a 4 game series of 44 strike outs back in 2003 vs Arizona. They finished the series with a total of 55 strike outs. The previous record was against a D-Backs rotation that included Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling, and Brandon Webb.