Over the course of 45 seconds Monday afternoon, a goon with a history of brainlessness hit one of the best players in baseball with a 98-mph fastball to the hip, the player responded by charging the mound and giffing his way into history with the most impotent helmet throw imaginable, the goon's catcher watched the trainwreck unfold in front of him like a figure at Madame Tussauds, two of the goon's teammates tried to save him and instead ran into one another and three more of the goon's teammates dragged him off the field and into a tunnel as he acted like someone who were he not wearing a San Francisco Giants uniform might be on the wrong end of a Taser. It's bad enough when the pitcher — in this case, Hunter Strickland — tries to deny hitting the batter intentionally. For nearly three years, Strickland had bottled up fury that Bryce Harper, the hitter, walloped a pair of home runs off him in a 2014 playoff series the Giants actually won on their way to a World Series championship.