Patrick Bailey bobblehead night
Pirates 13, Giants 3
How does the game end if the Giants can’t get anyone out?
My wife earnestly posed this question to our group, the four of us among the 40,417 lucky attendees to Saturday night’s yuckfest. She knows ball, and it was a fair question.
The Pirates turned five* innings against the Giants bullpen into batting practice (17 hits, nine runs). In the middle of the yuck, as my friend and I reminisced about watching Patrick Bailey’s walk-off inside-the-park homer in person, my wife said she saw Bailey.
No, not the real Patrick Bailey. Miniature Patrick Bailey.
Lou Seal, she said, was hauling a big bag of unlabeled white boxes. Santa Claus in orange and black.
He handed the boxes to kids as my wife watched one after another rip open their brand new Patrick Bailey bobbleheads. One dad, apparently, let it slip that the Giants had traded him hours earlier.
It’s true, they did trade their once-future franchise catcher Saturday morning. But why spoil the fun with the truth? Enough of that, and it might leave you wondering.
How does the season end if the Giants can’t win any more games?
Up next: The Giants will try to take the series from Konnor (Don’t Call Me Connor) Griffin and the Pirates on Sunday afternoon. It’ll be Tyler Mahle against Bubba Chandler are 1:05 p.m. Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms, starting with mine.
*Christian Koss is part of the Giants’ bullpen.