After what some refer to as the All Star game, and what I refer to as the mid-summer time period in which there is no meaningful baseball, the Giants returned to action tonight in a losing effort against the Padres. Well, action is a bad choice of words here. Inaction is more like it.
Andrew Cashner was on the mound for the Padres in one of their awful baby-poop colored uniforms. Did they forget that they got rid of those for a very good reason? You will read about how good he was. I think that the story is more about how the Giants were there in body, but not spirit.