Sometimes baseball games are over in the first inning. That can happen in a few ways.
One iteration is what happened to the San Francisco Giants last week, when the Oakland A’s hit a home run on the first at-bat of the game, creating the final score after just one batter.
Another iteration happened on Sunday against the Washington Nationals, when the Giants simply gave up a ton of runs and stopped playing the good baseball that has come to define their season.
It started with Alex Cobb, who returned from the Injured List and had the shortest start of his career.