It’s not that the Giants got crucial home runs from two players who weren’t on the roster last weekend. That sort of thing happens when you roll the roster dice. Sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn’t, and it’s a lot of fun when it does, but it’s almost always going to be more coincidence than destiny. That’s because baseball is almost always going to be more coincidence than destiny.
It’s that the Giants got crucial, game-winning home runs from two players who were added to the roster specifically to wake the Giants up. The Giants went down to the lightning store and said, “Do you have any lightning?