The Giants Are Baseball’s Biggest Surprise. Can It Last?
The Lead
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🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Heading into the 2021 MLB season, the NL West was supposed to be a showdown between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres. But for the first half of the year, the San Francisco Giants stole the show. Today, we’re joined by The Athletic’s Andrew Baggarly to look at how this team of veterans (including Buster Posey, Brandon Crawford and Evan Longoria) has managed to exceed basically all expectations, and whether they are built to keep it going.
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| 0:51.0 | Heading into the season, the NL West was supposed to be a showdown between the Padres and the Dodgers. |
| 0:58.0 | But for the first half of the year, the San Francisco Giants stole the show. |
| 1:02.0 | Please hit! Dagger, the fastest runner. To Ferris, the ball of Juggins. Here's the relay home! |
| 1:10.0 | Change! And the ball game is over. |
| 1:17.0 | Today, the Athletics Andrew Baggaly, on why the Giants, the team with the best record in all of baseball in the first half, |
| 1:22.0 | have exceeded pretty much every expectation and whether they are built to keep it going. |
| 1:28.0 | It really is a surprise and yet when you watch this team play every day, they don't strike you as a team that's playing over its head. |
| 1:34.0 | I think that maybe is the best compliment you can give them. |
| 1:41.0 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky. It's Wednesday, July 7th, and this is The Leave. |
| 1:48.0 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:52.0 | There was just something about the emotion and the moment you know the best for first. |
| 1:57.0 | The days of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
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