This game was the story of two pitchers. Pitchers who are alike in many ways. They’re both first-round picks. Both tall and right-handed. Both sporting ERAs in the mid-5s, and trying, with every start, to prove that they belong on a team playing meaningful baseball games.
In the black and orange corner, Tyler Joseph Beede. In the green and yellowish-goldish-urineish corner, David Dewitt Bailey Jr.
Both have their moments of maddening (if you’re a fan of their opponent) brilliance, splattered around an abundance of maddening (if you’re a fan of their team) struggles.
If you’re a fan of the San Francisco Giants, it’s easy to forget that this is true of Homer Bailey.