Return of the King

The San Francisco Giants won three World Series in the 2010s thanks to strong pitching, Buster Posey, and Bruce Bochy. Not in a million years did any of us see that coming.

The glory days are far in the past now, but for those of us who lived through it a lot of memories are still available in a moment’s notice. We have Bruce Bochy memories. So weird to type.

Baseball’s beauty is tempered by its entropy. Maybe for some of us those Bochy memories curdled for a time as the franchise entered a post-success era. Those 2017-2019 seasons were painful not just because of the play on the field but by how Bruce Bochy, their famous manager, felt suddenly incongruous.

The game had worked long and hard to…