What a difference a game makes.
The San Francisco Giants 10-game road trip is mercifully over. A 5-1 loss to the Houston Astros officially closed the book on the longest and hardest and hopefully worst road trip of the year, sending the Giants on a flight back to the Bay Area, which they’ll spend watching YouTube cooking videos and contemplating a 3-7 road trip.
They could have won on Wednesday. I don’t say that to suggest that it was a close game that could have gone their way. I say that in the blandest, most literal since, that they could have won, the way any MLB team can win any given game against any other MLB team.