Diamondbacks 5, San Francisco 2: A Quiet, Normal Baseball Game

This was not a particularly exciting baseball game. For many teams and many fans of those teams, it wouldn’t be anything special. We won, which is always very nice. Every part of the team did what it was supposed to do and did it properly, which is also very nice. Nobody on our side did anything flagrantly idiotic or incompetent or terrible. On the contrary, the Diamondbacks did a competent job in just about every aspect of the game, and the result was what one would generally expect. Again, this was very nice.

It was also deeply weird. As a Diamondbacks fan and as a once-a-week recapper for the last four or five years or however long I’ve been doing it at this point, I’m not used to games…