The Giants risked losing what good will they have left with their season ticket holders and change-averse fans by having Nick Vincent pitch the first inning. The Giants starters have been atrocious in the first, giving up 42 runs in 40 innings. The performance has been bad enough that Giants were willing to risk a veritable avalanche of poorly spelled Facebook comments and tweets excoriating them for caving to analytics. But hey, the benefit was that they could finally stop the bleeding in the first and give Tyler Beede an easy start against the middle of the Blue Jays order, right?
Vlad Jr. awakens, the opener backfires
