Even during this downward dip, this streak of series lost, the San Francisco Giants have been able to avoid the greatest shame of all: the sweep.
Try as the Angels, Rangers, Rays and Braves might, they could not knock them completely out. Another Cool Hand Luke reference: as much as these opponents have laid them on their backs and commanded them to stay down, the Giants have scrambled back onto their feet. To land a blow? Or just take another one in the jaw? Obstinate. Admirable. Admirably obstinate, San Francisco has, in this fourth straight series dropped (fifth counting Bay Bridge split), snaked yet another win from a superior opponent, and I can’t tell if it’s a sign of a deeper resolve, or how just the long season typically shakes out mathematically.