Ugly defensive inning sinks Giants in rubber match

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesThis is a visual representation of how Thursday’s rubber match with the Colorado Rockies went for our Giants.

If you finish a swing with your bat tucked under the opposing catcher’s arm, things are a little off. It being there probably isn’t going to do you much good, right? It feels a little bit unfocused, careless, not the best use of your materials.

Maybe the most generous way to frame the San Francisco Giants game on Thursday is just that: “not the best use of their materials.”

Sure, they only lost 4-2, but the way the offense was hitting and the defense was fielding those two runs might as well have been twenty.

It was a bad game. No other way to slice it or…