The Giants lost to the Padres 3-2 but you don’t care about that. What you care about is that the Dodgers need to win this weekend’s series to avoid being eliminated from playoff contention. I agree with you: that’s way, way more worth caring about, but before you start dreaming of Joe Panik book-ending the season with a pair of walk-offs, let’s at least take a moment to address all the many good things that happened for the Giants in this game.
The fog that hung over the stadium might as well have been the ghost of Bobby Evans, and that ethereal abstraction was embodied no more so than in Abiatal Avelino’s start and subsequent 2-hit night, which included his first major league hit.