The San Francisco Giants tried to win the old fashioned way. They tried to beat the New York Mets with a good old fashioned rally, like in olden times.
Sure, dingers may run in the team’s DNA, but they needed just 162 of them in 2010, 103 of them in 2012, and 132 of them in 2014.
So they tried a throwback game.
In the fourth inning of a scoreless game, the Giants went to work with their rallying ways. With one out and the bases empty, the Giants rattled off five straight hits: a Buster Posey double, followed by singles from Darin Ruf, Evan Longoria, Brandon Crawford, and Wilmer Flores.