Believe or not: the Colorado Rockies steamrolled into Oracle Park on Friday as one of the hottest clubs in baseball.
Possibly an exaggeration, but they had won seven-in-a-row, sweeping the Rangers at home and the Padres in San Diego. Their hot streak sparked by a 9-1 walloping against the Giants last Thursday.
Meanwhile San Francisco had gone 3-3. Their ability to keep their head above water a minor miracle considering how hollowed out the lineup had become, as if chewed through by some invasive roster-borer, an infiltrating insect possibly released into the visiting clubhouse by agents of the Rocky Mountain High.