Giants fall short against Angels, 4-3

The Giants fell short against the Angels on Saturday 4-3. It didn’t feel like they were only down a run, however because they struck out 17 times. It was the most the Giants have struck out in a nine-inning game since August 31st, 1959, where Sandy Koufax struck out 18. (h/t Andrew Baggarly via Twitter)

Let’s put that in some perspective and line them up end to end. Those 17 strikeouts amount to 5.2 innings. That’s nearly two per inning of a nine-inning game. It is 17 non-productive outs out of 27. It’s bad, folks.

And some amount of blame, or credit, goes to Joe West’s very generous strike zone, but if you’re striking out 17 times in a game, you don’t get to blame the umpire. You need to…