The old - and by old I mean pre-June 1 - San Francisco Giants couldn’t overcome adversity. They didn’t know what to do when confronted with the cold, hard face of a game opponent that wasn’t willing to roll over and play dead.
Those Giants won some games, as all bad teams do. But they won games with no margin for error. They won games when their offense clicked, their pitching clicked, the ball bounced their way - metaphorically and literally - and their opponent took the day off.
For those Giants, an evaporating lead was a death sentence.