July is the longest, hottest, tryingest, soul sappingest, most humid month on the baseball calendar.
The Giants are going to cry bitter tears when it ends.
Your heroes are on a ridiculous run. But you knew that even before Pablo (9 lives) Sandoval shoe-horned a game-winning home run over the left field fence Tuesday night to give the Giants a 5-4,13-inning win over the Cubs. In keeping with the Giants’ impossibly dramatic hot streak, Sandoval’s game-winner barely cleared the wall. One more coat of paint on the fence and the ball wouldn’t have made it. It wasn’t a walk-off, it was a squeak-off.