The San Francisco Giants spent half of their Saturday game against the Los Angeles Dodgers trying to win. And then they spent the other half trying to lose.
For reasons I still can’t figure out, they were better at the former than the latter.
Despite their best attempts to sabotage things, they took a 5-1 lead into the eighth inning, and it briefly looked like they might have a win by a semi-sizable margin. Mind you a win is a win, but after sporting a staggering negative-15 run differential after two games, there was some allure in the team grabbing a few runs back.