It was almost poetic in how it happened.
The Giants were facing Corey Knebel in the top of the ninth inning, the game tied at two. Nick Castellanos and Rhys Hoskins had homered on the day, Kyle Gibson made a single bad pitch, a two-run home run to Wilmer Flores, but this game was going to come down to the final innings. Even though he had gotten the first two outs rather easily, anyone watching the game could sense the undercurrent of paranoia around this outing. It wasn’t a matter of if Knebel would blow it, it was a matter of when.