San Francisco Beat

Here's Henry Schulman, the San Francisco Chronicle's Giants beat writer, the fellow whose job it is to follow the team around all year long reporting, by way of the Chronicle's Sporting Green, and in fewer than 600 words if at all possible, on almost every game the San Francisco Giants play throughout the lengthy Major League Baseball season. This is the last Giants game he'll have to report on this year, because, improbably, but according to Schulman's witness, known for its probity lo these many years on the beat, the Giants have won enough of them to become champions of Major League Baseball this year and won't need to play any more to prove it.