With 36 games left to play, the San Francisco Giants have hit more home runs than in any season since 2010.
That’s . . . worth celebrating? A little bit? I think?
The Giants have hit 137 home runs, more than they hit in any of the previous eight seasons. And they’re certainly on pace to surpass 2010’s total of 162.
There are two ways of looking at this. On the one hand, the Giants are finally starting to get on the home run train, and evolve with the times. Hitting the ball over the fence is conducive to scoring runs, I’ve been told, and the Giants seem more interested in implementing that bizarre strategy than at any other point since Barry Bonds was lacing up cleats on a nightly basis.