Giants win, match longest winning streak of year

Giants win, match longest winning streak of year

That winning streak is two. But still.

Grant Brisbee@mccoveychron May 13, 2017

The Giants defeated the Reds, 3-1, extending their season-long winning streak to two games. Do not laugh at the idea of a two-game winning streak. It’s real, and it’s spectacular.

Not only did the Giants win, but they did it in the best possible fashion. After playing a 17-inning game that wrapped around the mobius strip of time and returned, the bullpen needed a break. It would have been very, very 2017 Giants for Matt Moore to amble out to the mound and give up seven earned runs in two innings. It would have been the worst of all worlds.

Instead, Moore was phenomenal. Shaky at times, and he allowed more than a couple baserunners in the early innings, but he was everything the Giants needed him to be. It’s been rare for a Giants starter to go eight innings this season — this was just the third time in 38 starts that someone has gone that deep into the game — but this was perfect timing. Moore ate up innings, and he bent but didn’t break. It’s everything the Giants could have hoped for and just a sprinkle more.

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Interesting factoid about this winning streak: The games were started on different days, but both wins happened on the same day