Jeff Samardzija pitches a gem, Giants win

This helped. It’s nearly impossible to describe how much better Jeff Samardzija was on Monday night than his counterpart on the Brewers, Junior Guerra. This is nothing against Guerra, who is a solid pitcher and a great story. Dude was pitching for a team in Spain, a couple years ago. He wasn’t even pitching in one of the top two baseball countries in Europe. But on Monday, he was all over the place and missing his spots, constantly behind and in trouble.

Jeff Samardzija was not constantly behind and in trouble. It turns out that he’s apparently incapable of throwing balls now? He struck out 10 without walking anyone, and he threw 82 of his 119 pitches for strikes.

Guerra fell behind to 14 of…