The Giants managed only three hits in the series finale against the Royals on Sunday.
If this was May or June or July…or just any month this season, those three hits would have served as a reminder of the lineup’s ineptitude, their eager capitulation to opposing arms, a desperate paddling up-stream. But in September, specifically late September, specifically after being officially eliminated from postseason play when none of these games “matter”, these three hits became the best kind of hits: the ones that come in the same inning and score runs (plural) and were, in the words of base ball’s famous enunciator William Keeler, hit where the people are not.