The one where the Giants get only two hits

When you have a long-running TV sitcom, it becomes difficult to come out with fresh, frustrating situations for the main characters involved. How many times can Ross and Rachel break up, get back together, and break up again? Is there a new way that Steve Urkel can destroy the Winslow family’s home with his harebrained inventions and clumsiness? Would Jack Tripper really schedule dates with two different women at the same restaurant over and over without learning from his mistakes?

It’s starting to feel like that with the San Francisco Giants, who lost 3-1 to the Pittsburgh Pirates Tuesday night in a game that felt like a bunch of disastrous plots repeated from earlier in the season. This…