Sergio Romo is pretty good at this baseball thing. (image: flickr/Dinur Blum)

It is one of the great truisms of Giants baseball that, no matter how empirically bad the Padres are, games in Petco are annoying. There always seems to be something about that park, and there’s always that one guy who screws things up, or there are bees harassing your left fielder, or something. You get the point.

Today was really no different, except that it somehow managed to end in a Giants win anyway. Madison Bumgarner was good, not great. CB Bucknor was typically awful behind home plate. The Padres did some Padresy things that helped the Giants. The Giants managed to do fewer Giantsy things that helped the Padres, so they won. That’s just about how any game in San Diego seems to go. » Continue reading “Giants Recap: Romo Rides Two Braces to Victory”