San Francisco Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford was in his first full season in the big leagues in 2012 when his young team went from a losing record in mid-May to 11 games over .500 in late June, then teetered in July with 1-5 and 1-7 slumps.
Sound familiar?
“How you respond to the failures is kind of a big telling point of who you are as a team,” Crawford said.
That goes for any team in a game-a-day sport with failure baked into the process (and stats) u2012 but especially for teams as young as those 2012 Giants and these 2023 Cincinnati Reds.