Buster Posey gave the Giants the lead, and Jake Peavy and the bullpen held onto it.
Jake Peavy was an ex-Giant walking. This is both a delicious play on the term "dead man walking" and a factual comment about how he was pitching. It was his pair of five-walk games that convinced me he was never going to return to his presumptive ceiling of pretty-good-for-a-fifth starter. If he didn’t have command enough to make batters chance and make weak contact, if they recognized not to mess with his chase pitches, Peavy was done, because he was several years removed from blowing anyone away.