You won’t believe this, but despite the offense’s dense aura of despair and recent memory bias, the San Francisco Giants have been really good with the bases loaded. In 71 PA so far going into Sunday’s game, the team is slashing .333/ .394/ .667. Their 176 wRC+ is third highest in the league, behind…Arizona and Colorado. A trio of store-brand NL West teams you wouldn’t expect at the top of that split leaderboard — maybe it’s not wise to hit well with the bases loaded?
Wait, no…that can’t be right, because based on what went down in Sunday’s 5-2 loss to the White Sox, it’s the team with the clutch splash that clears the ducks off the pond that typically wins the game, not the team that falls on their face and sucks mud.