A contending team playing in a half-full ballpark, on any night against any team, is an embarrassment. This is a pennant race, and that park should be brimming with loud fans, waving purple hankies and celebrating a season that most of us, quite frankly, thought would have faded by July.

Sure, they played a lousy team last night. But the Giants have been out of the race since roughly the third inning of Game 1 and they only recently had a 530-game sellout streak ended. They were selling out before they won three World Series in five years, at the very least coming within a few hundred of selling out every game since AT&T Park opened.

The Cubs and Red Sox both regularly fill their joints, or come close, good years and bad. Cleveland too in recent years. It's hard to tell because they arrive late and leave early, but the Dodgers (who haven't won a thing in 30 years) get nearly a full house every game.

No reason the Rockies, especially this season, shouldn't do it also.