If there were an award for the season’s first-half champion, the San Francisco Giants would have won it this year—they were clearly the best team in baseball. But since then, they have been plagued by blown saves and too many days when the bats failed to show up.
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Does anyone see a parallel with this past week’s Cardinals series? The Giants won the first two games convincingly (the first half of the series!), then lost the next two games when, on Saturday, Santiago Casilla failed to nail down the save (we’ve seen that once or two hundred times this year…) and then when the Giants failed to score on Sunday.