Andrew McCutchen’s home run was exquisite, so let’s keep talking about it

In 40 years, you won’t remember a whole lot about the 2018 season. Four decades is a long time, and baseball probably shouldn’t take up that much real estate in your brain anyway. But you’ll remember that Andrew McCutchen home run, even if you don’t remember exactly which season it was from. There’s a lot of recency bias to fight against, but it has to be one of the best regular-season home runs for the Giants in the last 10 years. No, 20 years. Thirty years? Since they moved to San Francisco?

Pick the hyperbole that you can live with, and I won’t shame you. It wasn’t just that it was a walkoff homer in the bottom of the 14th inning. It wasn’t just that it was against the Dodgers. It wasn’t…