Giants don’t blow a dominant Bumgarner outing

Photo by Jason O. Watson/Getty ImagesThe Giants had this one in the bag all the way. It wasn’t even close really.

Okay, maybe it got a little hairy at the end.

It was fine really. Will Smith was on the mound, and he’s untouchable.

All right, I only barfed a little.

After capturing the hearts and minds of the nation with his heroics at the plate, Will Smith struggled harder than I remember seeing him. He escaped with the save by the narrowest of margins. Matt Chapman came within inches of clearing the bases. If it wasn’t divine providence sending that ball foul, it was that Joey Rickard is secretly an airbender and he blew it away.

The A’s had no designs of ever swinging at Will Smith’s slider…