If I had told you in mid July that every game this season would matter, you would have taken it.
If I had told you that every inning this season would matter, you would have taken it.
You didn’t expect the San Francisco Giants to be there, in the final inning of the final game of this nauseatingly bizarre season, with the postseason within view.
But they were. And you might think that would make the 5-4 loss to the San Diego Padres that ended the regular season and the postseason dreams in one blow more bearable.