Dispatch from Australia: Can the Giants finish their three-peat?

The Adelaide Giants don’t have any actual affiliation with the San Francisco Giants. In fact, in their earliest incarnation, they were linked to the Los Angeles Dodgers, which is how Paul LoDuca spent formative months Down Under, as did future Giants relievers Felix Rodriguez (1993) and Matt Herges (1999). But now they’re in the Australian Baseball League playoffs, trying to win a third straight ABL title.

Adelaide spent nine years as the Adelaide Bite, which is both a reference to great white sharks and a nearby landmark called the Great Australian Bight, which is basically the long inland curvature in the middle of the southern part of the continent. They went back to being the Giants in…