08-05-2024, 02:22 PM
(08-05-2024, 01:38 PM)skip75 Wrote: They really do need to take advantage of this part of the schedule. Beginning on August 23, they close out the season with eleven 3-game series: @ Seattle, Baltimore, & KC; home-&-home with Milwaukee, Arizona, & San Diego; and home vs. Miami & St.Louis. All are play-off shoo-ins or contenders with better records that the Giants - except for lowly Miami.Totally agree. The Giants need to be at a minimum in one of the three wild card spots (preferably not the lowest one) on August 23 if they have any hope of being in one at the end of the season. The only "good news" besides Miami in that group is that Arizona, San Diego ans St. Louis are direct competition for the wild card spots the Giants need to occupy. Pittsburgh is the only probable contender the Giants don't play during that stretch. If the Giants enter those series somewhat reasonably controlling their own destiny IMO that is all the fans can hope for at this point. The Giants aren't going to win three straight from any of those teams (and absolutely not all three of those teams), so they need at least a small cushion going in.