At some point during the San Francisco Giants 4-0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the NLDS, my mind started to wander to past iterations of this team. It’s a silly thing to do, really — get lost in rearview daydreams when a 107-win team is sitting in front of you, playing their rivals in the postseason for the first time.
But I couldn’t help myself. As Logan Webb mowed down Dodger hitter after Dodger hitter — looking as calm and composed as you needed him to be, and as enthusiastic as you hoped he’d be — my mind turned on a second monitor, and started replaying Tim Lincecum’s 2010 NLDS start against the Atlanta Braves.