So here’s the deal: the San Francisco Giants lost. They played a team that had lost eight games in a row — including three against the Giants — and what did they Giants do? They looked like butter-covered nincompoops for the better part of two-and-a-half hours, before finally accessing their baseball skills in the ninth inning.
In fairness, those ninth-inning baseball skills were entertaining. It started with a bullet off the bat of Brandon Belt — who is staying red hot — that Tommy La Stella Tim Locastro bobbled about as many times as when you drop an egg and try to catch it on its rapid descent.