Other than the platform it was being streamed on, the game started out promisingly. Gregor Blanco homered on the second pitch of the game, Ty Blach shut down the Phillies in the bottom of the first, and then Alen Hanson hit a two-run homer in the top of the second. After the team had looked so inert and helpless against the Phillies pitching staff for the first three games of the series, it was an encouraging start, and a reminder that this is still a major league team. Just because they had a few bad games, that doesn’t mean you should start going all Bryan Murphy and declaring that half of the team is made up of talentless wretches who should retire to spare themselves the indignity of being outclassed in baseball night-in, night-out.
Giants emphatically do not avoid sweep, lose 6-3
