Giants get right back to their winning ways

Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty ImagesOver the last two months, during which time the San Francisco Giants have the very best record in all of baseball, I’ve found myself being asked one question over and over: Why? Occasionally it’s phrased differently: How?

Sometimes I get that question from people on the internet, sometimes from hosts of sports radio shows in other cities, and sometimes from myself as I start to question whether or not I actually know anything about this silly goose team that I cover.

There are a lot of answers, and the truth involves snippets and excerpts from each of them. But I always return to one overarching answer, the umbrella that encompasses most of the micro…