It’s a new day for McCovey Chronicles, as you could probably tell. And hey, maybe — just maybe — it’s a new day for the San Francisco Giants as well. Our site looks new, clean, and fresh, as evidenced by the homepage. And the Giants? Well hey. They look new, clean, and fresh too, as evidenced by their 8-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates, a team that, up until Tuesday, appeared impossible for the Giants to vanquish.

But it wasn’t just the absence of defeat that made Tuesday’s victory feel like a new day. Nor is it just forced symmetry with me trying to play off website changes as narrative arcs.

No, it felt like a new day for the Giants because of the manner in which they won. They scored runs for Logan Webb. Not just a few, but a whole bucket full. They hit home runs. Plural. And not

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