SAN FRANCISCO — Late in Tuesday night’s game, the Giants’ media relations staff dug up a statistic that was jarring even by the ridiculous standard Tyler Fitzgerald has set over the past month.
With a 425-foot blast early in the game, Fitzgerald became just the second Giant ever to hit at least 15 homers through his first 59 career games. He joined a list that previously had consisted of only Willie Mays.
Fitzgerald has at times been a one-man show in the second half, but with the game on the line, the coaching staff took the bat out of his hands. Down by a run in the bottom of the 10th, Fitzgerald was told to try and bunt the automatic runner to third, but his attempt was a poor one.
The Giants actually caught a break when home plate umpire Jeremy Riggs mistakenly ruled Fitzgerald out for batter’s interference, a decision that could not be challenged. Before Riggs …