One day you’re lifted upon shoulders; and the next, your face down in the mud. The highs and lows of the 162 game season, and what the San Francisco Giants have learned from the first two games of this series in Pittsburgh, is that whiplash can be even more acute. Not one game to the next, but from inning to inning.
In the 8th, Pirates reliever Colin Holderman was snapping off deadly sweepers and knee-high sinkers. Inheriting a bases-loaded no out mess with a two-run lead to nurse, the righty struck out two, and surrendered just one run on a swinging bunt off the bat of Soler.