The San Francisco Giants' 2009 season might've cleared the point of no return the minute Ian Stewart's two-run bomb cleared the right-center field fence at AT&T Park.
Although the game against the Colorado Rockies still had some life in it after Stewart's sixth-inning blast made it 4-0, the Giants wouldn't be able to make up that last run.
Despite a spirited ninth-inning comeback against the previously untouchable Franklin Morales, our guys came up one run short and fell 4-3.
What could've been a reasonable last-ditch run at the National League Wild Card, sitting only one game away in the loss column, is now a quixotic charge up a three-loss hill with only 16 games remaining.
Under ordinary Major League Baseball circumstances, that wouldn't be overly intimidating.
Unfortunately for the ...
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