The San Francisco Giants handed the St. Louis Cardinals their 40th loss of the season on Monday night.
The Cardinals are now 7-16 in 1-run games, and no one in the Bay Area or Major League Baseball in general are too concerned about that. The Cardinals have been good for a long, long, long time and even when they’re not playing well, they’re still scary.
Paul Goldschmidt, Nolan Arenado, Paul DeJong, Willson Contreras, Brendan Donovan, Tommy Edman, Nolan Gorman—they have Gold Gloves and MVP trophies and speed and power and tall guys and small guys, all of them straight-faced, void of any outward emotion when they field their positions or step into the batter’s box.