If there’s one compliment you can pay the San Francisco Giants this year, one thing that you really just admire their affluence at, it’s the ability to lose games that they probably should win. Trust me when I say that the Giants are not as adept at this as it feels like they are, but they’re still pretty darned good at it.
They get picked off. They load the bases and then don’t score. They have that one inning where everything goes wrong. They’re not exactly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in the final minute of the movie, but you’ve got to think that, “damn, we should have won that” is a refrain commonly muttered in fancy cars and charter busses exiting the stadium over the last month.