In Sunday’s win over the Pirates, the Giants hit eight balls at 100 MPH or more, all for outs. I don’t remember seeing a single game where so many hard-hit balls resulted in nothing. What’s weirder is that the big hit of the day, Nick Hundley’s three-run homer had just a 5% hit probability according to Statcast. They were extremely unlucky until they were extremely lucky.
It’s worth looking at which Giants have been the greatest benefactors of luck and which are but playthings for the cruel games of the baseball gods.