The good will accrued from the San Francisco Giants five game winning streak to start this second half has been spent and officially overdrawn.
Desperate for the Pacific air, the sweater weather, and familiarly mutable microclimes, the team was forced to touch down in Michigan for one last sticky, inland day game against the Detroit Tigers. The 5-1 defeat was their season-high 6th consecutive loss and a cleat to the shin of the already hobbling Giants just trying to make it back home.
The loss felt pretty assured after the Tigers announced a lefty, Tarik Skubal, would pitch the make-up game.