After the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres 2-1 on Monday night, I wrote about how when the season ends in just a few short days, we’ll look back at games like that and inexplicably pine for the nightly churn of the gorgeously and entirely too long season.
The pining is inexplicable because for every game like Monday’s there are a dozen like Tuesday’s, that make us all too ready for the season to conclude on Sunday.
And, just as there are games like Monday’s that we’ll look back on all offseason as we count down the days until March 28, there are games that we’ll look back on as we write the obituary of the feckless 2023 season.