Giants Win The World Series
Maybe we focused so much on how improbable a Royals’ championship that we lost sight of how absurd it is that these Giants did it yet again. No team in the 2014 postseason had a worse record in the regular season, and the Giants benefited from playing in the same division as the Diamondbacks and Rockies the teams with the worst and second-worst records in the sport.
Baseball can be pretty ridiculous sometimes. The Giants didn’t seem like they should win the World Series in 2010, when they needed big performances out of dudes like Pat Burrell, Juan Uribe and Edgar Renteria. And they didn’t seem like they should win it in 2012, when they swept a Tigers team that included, at the time, the best pitcher and the best hitter in the world. And it certainly didn’t seem like they should win it in 2014, when they played under.500 ball from June 9 through the end of the season.
And yet here we are. Maybe there’s some secret formula to winning World Series that only GM Brian Sabean knows, or maybe they’ve just had some great pitchers and strong bullpens and good luck, and baseball is mostly random.
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