WASHINGTON – History repeats itself. That includes baseball history. And there was something so very familiar about the Giants’ 7-1 victory over Stephen Strasburg and the Washington Nationals on Saturday.
Six Julys ago, first baseman and sarcasm artist Aubrey Huff took stock of a Giants team that had lost seven consecutive games, struggling to score in all of them, and then considered the next day’s starting pitcher: the Rockies’ Ubaldo Jimenez, who was 14-1 with a 1.83 ERA.
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“I’ve seen some crazy things happen in this game when you’re down and out,” Huff said. “This may be the exact guy we need to get out of it.