Five Takeaways From Giants’ Loss to Cardinals

Bruce Bochy used to get a boost from September call-ups. He could play the matchups a bit more in the bullpen, and while that made games a bit longer, it generally worked. These days, there's almost never a right answer when a reliever is summoned from the bullpen mound.Eight different relievers took the mound for the Giants and nearly all of them pitched poorly. The bullpen gave up nine runs over the final three innings, coughing up a three-run lead in an 11-6 loss to the Cardinals that was the seventh in eight games. Harvey Tragedy: Van Swept Away With Family Inside Is Found Even by the low standard set by the 2016-17 Giants, that was one hell of a bullpen collapse. It wiped out all the good the position players did earlier in the game.I didn't feel like deleting everything, so here are some of those earlier highlights: Man Arrested on Suspicion of Setting Ponderosa Fire — The game owed Brandon Crawford one, and he got a bit of a break — if you can ever call it a break at AT&T Park — in the second. Crawford's deep shot to right-center landed on the soft pad on top of the wall. With one fewer inch of carry, it bounces back toward the field. Instead, it...