When this run of twenty consecutive games began, the Giants were 28-38 and had won just six series all season, none of which were a three-game sweep. They were averaging 3.79 runs per game. Pablo Sandoval was far and away their best hitter.
It’s not only a different story twenty days later, it’s a different feeling versus the one we’ve felt for this team since, I don’t know, the second half of 2016 — dread — and it’s a feeling most of us probably thought wouldn’t be one we’d dust off until Johnny Cueto returned: joy.