NY Times · Oct 6, 2016
The Giants Rely on a Familiar Formula, and a Great Equalizer
These are the San Francisco Giants. This is what they do. You were expecting something else?
The Mets did well just to get this far, into the National League wild-card game — at home, too — with a chance to get back to the World Series. They used Noah Syndergaard, their last ace standing, who did all he could. The Giants’ ace, Madison Bumgarner, did more. It is what he does.
“He did what everybody expected him to do,” first baseman Brandon Belt said. “It’s almost boring. He needs to do something different next time.”