Like all sports, baseball has its own language. Can of Corn, Texas Leaguer, Humm Baby and a one-word bit of narrowness that can break through any level of false crowd noise that a team can generate. Statcast needs to pick up the decibels and run a daily Leaderboard.
Starter Tyler Anderson shot that epithet in the skies of Anaheim with bazooka power Monday night after a fifth inning of three runs that cost the Giants an advantage, the big hit an Albert Pujols twice.
But first it is not who (bleeps), it is who (bleeps) the last. In this case, it was Mike Yastrzemski in the ninth inning when he saw Tommy La Stella’s two-run, game-ending homer fly over his head, another shot from Trevor Gott, another ninth inning lead blown in. a 7-6 Angels victory, another kick in the temple for the fourth-worst team in the major.
The Giants can change the vocabulary only one way, but keep a ninth inning lead. If they get one Tuesday, God will not be on the mound.
No matter how much confidence the Giants have in God, a manager knows he has to try something different after the same man blew leads of 7-2, 6-3 and 6-5 in a span of four games.
And Gabe Kapler will.