If every win went down like this, we’d probably like baseball a lot less. But every once and a while? When it extends a winning streak? Sure. Let’s do it. Turn that baseball knob to 11. Let’s blow it out.
It’s 11:37pm and the broadcast has just switched off. The last shot was of Donovan Solano running off the field to join the rest of the Giants in celebration after his walk-off hit. Somehow, they came back from a 2-1 deficit in the bottom of the 16th inning to win 3-2.
There are a couple of reasons why this game lasted so long: both teams made few mistakes and the Giants were pretty tired.