The San Francisco Giants received a fair amount of criticism for remaining stagnant at the trade deadline, opting against trading a top prospect for a short-term boost, or a quality basket of prospects for a marginal upgrade.
Farhan Zaidi, when addressing this criticism, shrugged, said that bullpen games aren’t the team’s desired mode, but that damn, they sure are good at them.
The bullpen, as if to provide evidence to support their president, did, as the kids say, the damn thing.
And that’s how the Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 1-0 on Thursday afternoon, taking a four-game series from their free-falling division rival, winning their seventh game in nine attempts, competing in their sixth one-run game in the last week, and staying atop the Wild Card standings, and within reach of the Los Angeles Dodgers.