I’m a weirdo who can’t escape thoughts of how things might have been. Like, what if the Padres traded for Cody Ross in July, 2010 instead of Ryan Ludwick, keeping Corey Kluber in the process? Here come the three-time championship Padres, rolling into town and making us feel bad. Hamburgers eat people in this universe, and everything is awful.
This what-if isn’t as dramatic, but I spent most of the ninth inning wondering what this game would have looked like without Christian Arroyo.
It’s possible that Eduardo Nuñez would have started and gone 4-for-4 with three triples, and the Giants would have won 8-3.