The baseball season is 162 games long, so some losses just have to be written off and filed away in a folder tagged "Stuff Happens."
The San Francisco Giants' 6-5 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday wasn't one of those games. Manager Bruce Bochy and his willingness to go by the book cost the Giants the game.
Oh, it should be a throw-away loss on a random Tuesday night in April that even the Giants themselves will forget about by the time summer arrives. For the New York Yankees or the Philadelphia Phillies, it would just be a game where some things went wrong. Good teams can afford to give away a game once awhile.
The Giants entered Tuesday's game with a 6-1 record. They are not, however, a really good team. Well, they haven't had the time to prove that they're a really good team yet ...
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San Francisco Giants: Defense Struggled, but Tag Loss on Bruce Bochy
Posted: 14th April 2010 by Ted Sillanpaa in MLBComments Off on San Francisco Giants: Defense Struggled, but Tag Loss on Bruce Bochy