Giants lose to Jose Altuve

Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesYou can’t bring us down, Jose Altuve. You can’t bring us down, Houston Astros. The San Francisco Giants traded for Kris Bryant on Friday, and anything that happened in the game that followed a few hours later was academic.

In fact, I kind of forgot that there was a game. Why was there a game? Give the dudes a day off while they’re all on hug watch. But there was a game, and while the Giants played the non-Altuves fairly evenly, they did not play Altuve evenly at all.

Altuve led off the game and did so ominously, blasting a line drive that was juuuust outside of the reach of Brandon Crawford’s diving body. It was the start of a brutal…