SAN FRANCISCO – Giants manager Bruce Bochy couldn’t believe that a national baseball reporter delved into his team’s total collapse this season by highlighting the stretching routine of closer Mark Melancon.
“It’s pole vaulting over mouse turds, to be honest,” Bochy said.
Go ahead and work out that mental image for awhile.
Fox Sports reporter Ken Rosenthal, who is one of the most respected and connected members of the baseball media, wrote a column in which he cited unnamed sources that told him that Melancon “rubbed some teammates the wrong way early in the season by putting an end to the bullpen’s 3:30 p.