I’m back from the injured list. Appreciate the well wishes, but just know the Giants’ season turned around when I stepped away from the keyboard. Be warned.
There are moments in the season you wish you could bottle up. Games when you wish the next one wasn’t for a week, so you could hold onto what just happened a little longer.
How else to describe a walk-off grand slam against the Dodgers that vaults you within an inch of a playoff spot?
Against all logic and likelihood, the Giants find themselves in it. Count me among the surprised. I already said my goodbyes. What is this team doing back at my doorstep? Shoo. Go away.
But the Giants will not. They've won 14 of 18 games. They've scored more runs than any other team over that stretch. They've beaten bottom feeders and kingpins alike. All to give themselves a chance to do something even more ridiculous over these final 15 games.
The thrill of Friday's win might melt away in a few hours, but the facts will not. The Giants are in the playoff race, and boy, that feeling has been bottled up for some time.
Up next: The Giants don’t have many big-game duels left with Clayton Kershaw (10-2, 3.27 ERA), but there’s at least one more on tap Saturday night. The future Hall of Famer faces Logan Webb (14-9, 3.12 ERA) at 6:05 pm.
The playoff race: Reminder that the Giants lose a tiebreaker to the Mets, so they’ll need to step a full game ahead of them in the standings.
