By now you’re all too familiar with the relationship between the San Francisco Giants and 20-home run hitters.
For years, the two dance partners have circled each other, making constant eye contact, seeing who will flinch first, like one of those humorously-narrated National Geographic videos with a snake and a mongoose.
“He’s got to move carefully,” the narrator remarks, as the 20-home run hitter takes a cautious step to the left.
“One wrong step could be fatal,” he warns, as the Giants begin to retreat.
And on and on it goes. The last Giants hitter to put a baseball over the fence 20 times in a single year was Brandon Crawford, who did so 21 times in 2015.