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Giants do the sensible thing and finally win a damn game

This is the story of how the San Francisco Giants won a baseball game, even though you were convinced the entire time that they wouldn’t.

The entire time.

Don’t try to tell me you weren’t. It’s revisionist history. I call shenanigans.

There was no point at which you thought the Giants would beat the Arizona Diamondbacks, and even when they did win you looked around like Tim Lincecum after recording the 27th out of his first no-hitter, not yet realizing what exactly had happened.

You certainly didn’t think they’d win in the bottom of the first inning, when Alex Cobb started the game by striking out two batters, then allowed a two-out, 0-2 double to Ketel Marte, which prompted Hunter Pence to deliver this gem of a line: “Pitching through a little traffic can be good for the soul.