The Far Side created the best visual representation of Murphy’s Law I’ve seen. Vin Mazzaro might have created the baseball equivalent Thursday night in San Francisco. With the Rockies leading 4-3 in the top of the fifth inning, starter Matt Cain finished up another poor outing by allowing the first four batters to reach base, including an inning starting home run by Trevor Story. Mazzaro enters the game, and the first batter he faces reaches on the second error of the inning. All in all, he faces ten batters, records one out, allows six hits, three doubles, walks a batter, hits a batter, and is eventually charged with nine runs, seven of them earned.

Mazzaro pitched 22 1/3 over the previous two seasons, and allowed 10 runs. The Rockies turned AT&T Park into Coors West, winning the game 17-7. The are now in a three-way tie for first place in the NL West with the Giants and the Dodgers, all three teams at .500.

Nolan Arenado also homered in the game, giving the two big sluggers 23 home runs combined. That as many or more than six teams.