Play the hits

Giants 16, Brewers 3

If this was it for Luis Arraez at Oracle Park—and by all accounts it should be—what a run it was.

He collected four more hits in Wednesday’s blowout—his 41st multi-hit game of the year—raising his MLB-best average to .331.

Arraez has been everything the Giants hoped he would be, and so much more.

Defensively, it’s obvious. Offensively, when’s the last time you were this excited to watch someone hit at Oracle Park?

The Giants knew they signed a .300 hitter. I don’t think they knew they signed someone who would hit .361 with an .856 OPS on the shores of McCovey Cove. Even Melky Cabrera didn’t touch those numbers in his magical, PED-fueled 2012 season.

Arraez is a throwback in the best possible way.

The strikeout-proof bat. The spray of foul balls. The dunks and doinks and ducksnorts.

He’s baseball’s version of a classic rock station: hit after hit after hit.

And I’ll miss watching him.

Up next: The Giants head to San Diego to face a Padres team that’s won five in a row. They’re fighting for their wild card lives and will be at the center of the trade deadline buzz. Unfortunately for the G’s, Mason Miller is still down in that San Diego bullpen. First pitch at 6:40 pm.