There are a lot of baseball games in a season. So it only stands to reason that there will be a lot of storylines in those games. Some of them are wonky, absurd, or otherwise hard to fathom. It’s like parallel universes: get enough silly little worlds together and some of them are bound to make you blink repeatedly.
The one-off storylines pop up from time to time, and the rest of the season is filled in with repeat storylines in which the specifics may change, but the formula does not. The San Francisco Giants 6-4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday was one such game.