I cannot think of a better way for the San Francisco Giants to have started their Tuesday doubleheader against the Colorado Rockies.
Similarly, I cannot imagine a worse way for them to have finished it.
Let’s start with the good, because it’s always best to disappoint the reader rather than build them up. I want you to close your computer feeling worse about life than you did a few minutes prior.
And also, you know, chronology and what have you.
Here’s an incomplete list of all the awesome things that happened in the first inning of the first game of the doubleheader:
- The Giants had tallied 4 hits before Germán Márquez had thrown 10 pitches.