Jacob emailed me this morning to ask if we’d examine Bruce Bochy’s decision to bunt with Tyler Austin last night. So, here it goes (Sorry, Jacob. This isn’t good):
The Giants lost last night’s games for two reasons:
(1) the Los Angeles Dodgers are much better than the Giants. Although the Giants have played them tough — tougher than the rest of the NL West — and they had their best pitcher on the mound — who has, typically, not been a complete mess against them — the “on paper” matchup easily favored them.