Alex Cobb delivers a shutout masterpiece

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesThere are two general philosophies you can take with the San Francisco Giants as we near the one-month mark of the season.

The pessimist’s view as that this is a team in a perpetual state of closeness. The San Francisco Close But No Cigars. They’re not the team across the Bay, getting skunked on a nightly basis in uncompetitive and embarrassing fashion. Most of their losses could have been wins. Many of their losses should have been wins.

The bullpen has blown leads. The offense has shown a uniquely creative ability to find new ways to not score runners. Entering Monday’s game, they were third in the Majors in home runs hit, but only one team had fewer sacrifice…