Through seven and a half innings on Monday night, the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres played about the least eventful baseball game you could possibly design. Like, seriously uneventful.
The only note I had of eventfulness was Joey Bart throwing out a runner at third with no outs to help smother a Padresian rally.
Through those seven and a half innings there were just seven hits. They were all singles. There were no runs.
Uneventful and yes, even boring, doesn’t mean bad though. It takes goodness and often greatness to create uneventfulness, so let’s stop to sing the praises of Sean Hjelle, who pitched five of those uneventful innings and struck out eight batters.