Running down a dream
Giants 3, Rangers 2 (walk-off)
🎧 Fill yours ears with the latest episode of Giants Postcards on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Kerry and I dig into team’s questionable ‘Nothing Like It’ slogan and recall the blown saves that live rent-free in our minds.
There’s a lot of emptiness in the journey through 162 games. A lot of 5-2 games against the Rockies on a Tuesday night.
But every so often, tentpole moments shoot up out of nowhere. Moments that rise above the routine and rhythm of the season, when a team pulls back the curtain and tells you what they're about.
The Giants are winning games they shouldn't. They were outhit 10-3. Jordan Hicks struggled again in the first inning. LaMonte Wade Jr. invented new ways to make outs.
And yet, Heliot Ramos's chaotic, shocking, lawless, insert adjective here journey around the bases embodied everything the Giants are right now.
Just when you think you have them figured out—just when I think I have them figured out—you're wrong. I'm wrong. We're all wrong.
When days like Sunday come around, a tentpole shoots up out of nowhere. You're left with a moment you're sure to remember on this eight-month journey, and an extra shot of belief that all of this just might be real.
Up next: The first-place Giants are off for the first time in 18 days. They’ll pick things up on Tuesday night in San Deigo, where it’ll be Logan Webb against Nick Pivetta at 6:40 pm.
Wow hard to believe we win in the bottom of the 9th off a “Little League Homerun” started off with a swinging bunt?! We will all take it, but when does the magic stop? Hope we can make adjustments to the offense and rotation,so as to not take for granted being atop the NL West with 2 heavy favorites breathing down our necks. Make a move early Buster!