Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 27, 2002
Giants Resilient:

That's the point of this piece by Harry Schulman of the SF Chronicle. Here he is talking about Dunston:


Dunston looked forlorn. At 39, he became the sixth-oldest man to hit his first World Series homer. He had not homered in 147 at-bats. He only hit one in all of 2002, back on April 15 against San Diego's Bobby J. Jones, whose name reverberates in Giants' postseason lore for all the wrong reasons.

So this was a great moment for him and for the team. But someone as experienced as Dunston had to know how fickle this game can be, how tough it would be to snuff out the American League champs.

"Outs get harder," he said. "It's human nature to think what could happen. That's why we've got to stay focused. They've got a good ballclub. Scott Spiezio looks like he's been here 100 years.

"I'm not heartbroken," he said. "We've got a game tomorrow. Hopefully we can keep them quiet and cage that monkey."


Again, the players on the Giants have lost their whole careers. They aren't going to lay down after a tough loss.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:32 AM | Baseball