The last time the San Francisco Giants and Washington Nationals played, less than a month ago, one of the weirder series that I can remember witnessing took place. The Giants had scored 5.7 runs per contest over the six games prior to the series. They would go on to average 8.1 runs per contest in the nine games that followed the series.
But in the four-game series in the nation’s capital, the Giants mustered a measly three runs, total. One of those runs was the extra innings ghost runner, so it was really as though they only scored two runs.