For the first two games of this series, I wrote the recap during the game. I absolutely learned my lesson there. The recaps I was writing well into the ninth inning of those games were glowing, singling out impressive Giants performances and heroes we could give a chuck on the chin for a job well done.
Then Trevor Gott blew two catastrophic, historical ninth-inning leads in two straight games. In the moment on Saturday’s game — in the moment — many questions Kapler’s decision to send Gott back out in a save situation the day after giving up a backbreaking blown save in his longest outing of the year, even with a cushion of a few runs.