Every year it feels like the San Francisco Giants are a truly awful team with runners in scoring position. Every single year.
Sometimes they are. Sometimes they’re merely average. Sometimes they’re quite good. Occasionally they’re even elite.
But it always feels as though they’re awful.
It’s easy to explain why.
As sports fans we’re conditioned to cling to the bad moments more than the good ones, which is quite an indictment of the human spirit. And hitting in baseball really dives into this concept, since the average hitter is already going to be out in roughly three-quarters of their at-bats.