By the 8th in Friday night’s contest against the Marlins, the San Francisco Giants hadn’t scored a run in 17 innings.
They had just been two-hit by a back-end starter on an impressive Brewers team, and their bamboozlement at the plate continued against a starter with 10 innings under his belt this season on a terrible Miami Marlins team. Losing 1-0 to Miami, in which the offense undermined another dominant Blake Snell start, reducing his contribution to at-best a participation ribbon—it all felt impossible and entirely possible, the unconquerable ennui of a .