It’s been nearly two weeks, not quite a fortnight, a dozen days to be exact since the San Francisco Giants have scored in the first inning of a game.
It goes without saying that in these current doldrums, the offense has been slow out of bed. Don’t expect them to score before their first cup of coffee, or second, or ever frankly. They aren’t in the business of making starting pitchers uncomfortable. Nope, we missed out on Aaron Judge and missed out on Shohei Ohtani — I guess we should resign ourselves now: no first inning fireworks for our weary heads. San Francisco’s 78 wRC+ in the 1st is far from the reaches of the bright lights of New York or LA. The company we keep: Colorado! St. Louis!…
