The only thing to do is close your eyes and imagine just how horrible it would have been for the Giants to lose 10-2, with Madison Bumgarner struggling through four painful, ineffective innings. Now that’s dejection. When it’s 2019, this game will be a distant memory, and nothing about it will matter except for one thing*: Bumgarner looked like his old self. He looked like the pitcher he was before Excitebikegate, and that was the best possible news the Giants could have received tonight.
That they lost a game to the Padres in July of a cursed season?