I watched the entire excruciating three-game series because that's just how I roll. If indeed the Giants did lose all three games by only one run each in reality, the games were never that close from my vantage point. The games were never as close as the scoreboard indicated.
At no point during last nights debacle did I ever expect the Giants were going to score enough runs to win that game, Kershaw was that much in control,
from Yahoo Sports:
Clayton Kershaw's 132-pitch masterpiece closes out Dodgers' sweep of Giants - Yahoo Sports:
Don Mattingly had dodged questions all week about these Los Angeles Dodgers against those San Francisco Giants, about the long (and possibly naïve) view of burying the Giants and winning a division a full month before the season would end, and then Wednesday night happened. He went to the mound in the ninth inning to see Clayton Kershaw, to see if 127 pitches in a one-run game weren't quite enough for his ace, what with two Giants on the bases and one out still undone. "How am I doing. I'm good. That was about it," Kershaw recalled of a meeting he had little use for.'via Blog this'
I must truly love torture to have sat through all of that. I must be the Dick Cheney of baseball fan-dom to have sat through all of that. The Giants only chance was when Mattingly came out and decided to exercise his managerial discretion. It looked like the entire infield would have wrestled him into submission if he extended his hand and tried to take the ball from Kershaw. Once they talked some sense into him, it was GAME OVER!!
If people want to hang their hat on the fact that the last four games are against these same Dodgers in AT&T Park and therefore the Giants only need to stay within four games of the Dodgers to have some hope, well they can hang it up. Ain't going to happen. That just means that the Giants could theoretically finish eight games behind the Dodgers this season.
Maybe there is something to this even year thing. Sheesh!! Free Clayton Blackburn!!!
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