McCovey Chronicles · Jun 12, 2018
The Giants are fun, and that’s worth something
Monday’s game against the Marlins wasn’t exactly pretty. Madison Bumgarner was far from his sharpest, the Giants fly balls all died on the warning track, and the hitters combined for one extra-base hit while striking out 11 times.
And yet . . . I kept expecting them to win. When the game began, I thought they would win. When they trailed 2-1 in the fourth, I thought they would win. When they trailed 7-5 in the seventh, I thought they would win.
They lost, of course. That 7-5 score held true, as it so often does. But it wasn’t until Andrew McCutchen slowly rolled out to start the ninth inning that I actually expected that loss to take place.