SAN FRANCISCO — Fewer than 24 hours after making their fans’ hearts skip beats and their manager’s hair fall out in a too-close-for-comfort, one-run win, the Giants looked ready to “torture” their fans in a different way.
For the first seven innings of Wednesday’s matinee against the Oakland A’s, the Giants were sleepwalking. Their pitches found barrels, their bats whiffed in the strike zone and they appeared destined to suffer a big, embarrassing blowout loss.
Then came a furious, five-run rally that induced the type of nail-biting, pressure-packed moments that “Giants torture” is all about.
Those moments, while compelling, were all-too fleeting.