CHICAGO – Remember that otherwise inconsequential pop-up that first baseman Brandon Belt dropped for an error as he straddled the mound on Saturday?
Turns out that was a pretty big deal, after all. It snapped the Giants’ errorless streak that had quietly built to 17 games, which ranked as the longest in franchise history. If the Giants had made it through Saturday’s win at Wrigley Field without an error, they would have matched the 2009 Yankees for the longest errorless streak by a major league club since at least 1913.
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“Oh, Belt,” said Giants manager Bruce Bochy, informed of those facts.