You would think that after three championships in five years, the Giants would look at wild-card qualification with a jaundiced eye and a practiced yawn. You would be wrong. The home-team clubhouse at AT&T Park on Sunday looked suspiciously similar to the visiting clubhouse at Citizens Bank Park on Saturday.
“The torture of baseball,” is what Hunter Pence called it, wiping his hair and his beard of the beer and the champagne with which it had been soaked a few moments before. “And we’ve survived, so far.”
Yes, this is what will arrive at Citi Field on Wednesday night for the NL wild-card game: a team that has not only owned the decade so far, but owned the weekend, too.