12 hours after putting up 7 runs on 8 hits in the last three innings of yesterday’s 7-0 win, the San Francisco Giants returned to Oracle Park for their rubber match against the Tampa Bay Rays feeling like the wind had to be in their favor. A months long doldrums of minor breezes and luffing sails, Tuesday’s outburst just had to signal a change in the team’s weather.
It didn’t, and you know it’s a tough day when the most exciting thing on the field happened at your expense.
What just happened?