Bochy, Melvin Need to Start Giving Us Something Out-of-the-box-y

These are difficult, which is to say battleship-gray dull, days for the Oaklandcisco Giletics. They go out, they lose three of every five times they play, they disappear again. It's like watching Nerf whack-a-mole.
 
Which is why, in these final 40 games, both Bob Melvin and Bruce Bochy need to start giving us something out-of-the-box-y we can linger on, at least for a bit. The transition from the end of the Warriors season (and the subsequent fetishizing of everything they do) to the start of football training camp has been too easy, and baseball's window to captivate the easily distracted has pretty much been closed.
 
And this is why we enjoyed Cincinnati second baseman Scooter Gennett, pitching in a lost-cause game Tuesday night (the Reds have given up double digits 20 times this year, so that's not a big enough thing), referred to his speed gun rating in the mid-90s, which was corrected by reporters to the more accurate "68."
 
Gennett's response? "Yeah, I don't believe that. I think the radar gun might be broken or something. That, Statcast, off-the-bat speed, all that's fake news."
 
Perfect, and perfectly timely, too.
 
Then there is manager Terry Collins of the injury ravaged New York Mets, who is so bereft of players that he had to play catcher Travis d'Arnaud at third base but also needed to find a way to avoid having the ball hit to him. So he had d'Arnaud switch with second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera every time a right-handed hitter came up for the Yankees. So you get a box score that looks like this.
 
This is also the game in which Aaron Judge hit a 457-foot home run AND set a record for consecutive games with a strikeout, with 33. His season has fallen into a chasm since the All-Star Break, thus making him the latest "face of baseball" to find out that this "face of baseball" thing isn't such an easy gig after all.
 
Besides, the new face of baseball is Scooter Gennett, whom the Giants or A's should absolutely pay Giancarlo Stanton money to get in 2018. I mean, this is a guy who gave a fake name to the cops because his mom brought him to a stationhouse once to scare him into wearing his seatbelt -- when he was still watching Muppet Babies.
 
If that's not the true face of baseball, there is none at all. Billy, Bobby, make this happen, or resign.