A team .500 is not supposed to go so crazy. They are supposed to be like flight magazines: boring, harmless, sometimes ok. You will rarely look for one. You will never want their existence. They are. They helped you spend the seconds and minutes in the past, and now you’re here.
Then there are the Giants of San Francisco 2025, who are simultaneously .500 and the worst team in the history of baseball.
The giants played their worst match of the season on Sunday. There are dozens of other contenders, of course, but the appointments are closed, perhaps for the rest of the season. They were erased, 8-0, by a national team which had disappeared 15-36 in its last 51 games. They were in addition, 17-3. Mackenzie Gore could have been the coldest launcher of MLB – he had abandoned at least six points in three of his four previous departures – but he always folded the giants on a paper plane and threw them into the water. The Giants lost the match and the series, their fourth loss of a consecutive series at home. They are now 1-10 in their last 11 home games.
It is a list of unacceptable baseball results which are too horrible to ignore. And they come gracked a perfectly average team, mathematically speaking. A harmless Team, one that is not supposed to live under the boards of your brain and wake you up at night. The scratch sounds that they start to make around 3 a.m. are really disturbing. Shhrrrrcck Shhrrrcck Shhrrrcck.
There are reasons for this, of course. The first is that even if the giants have a record of .500, they were not .500 team For a while now. Since he equaled the Dodgers for a part of first place in the NL West on June 13, they went 18-30. They have not had a record of victories in a civilian month since April.
Giants are a particularly frustrating 0,500 team. (Darren Yamashita / Imagn Images)
Another reason why they are as exasperating as any team of recent memory is the way they sprinkled these victories and losses. They lost records against angels, white Sox, marlins, twins and pirates this season, but they won records against the Red Sox, Cubs, Astros, Brewers, Yankees, Phillies, Mariners and Rangers. They are not a team .500 because they alternate between being just good enough to lose and just good enough to win. They are a team .500 because they struck some of the best baseball teams. They are a team .500 because they have shaken the outbuildings while playing some of the worst baseball teams.
Now the paadres come to town for an important series. He should not be an important series. The very idea of anyone who calls it an important series is sufficient to get you angry. Giants cannot win at home. They apparently lose all the series they touch. They should have failed in important series months ago.
However, they are here they are, playing another game that could really have importance. They will certainly not catch the paadres, even if they returned from August similar deficits before, but the dishes are somehow even more damn than the Giant right away. Their sequence of seven consecutive defeats left everyone’s window open. (Tyler Rogers obtained the defeat for dishes the other evening, and you will never believe the three strokes that led to the races against him.)
The good news is that the giants Finally Have a Rubicon in front of them. All they have to do is cross it. Right now, these are just a half -checked team in the plane toilet. But if they make this last step, they can be sucked throughout the septic pit. “Hey, look, a flight magazine,” they could say when they are there. The season will be over, completely turned.
The bad news is that there is also an incredible potential to put everyone even more.
Here are all the possible results of the next Giant-Padres series:
The giants lose the three
Season, without a doubt. If you are the type of eternal optimist who says things like: “They faced more rigid ratings in 51, by gum!”, I wanted to and I have given you. If the giants lose their fifth consecutive series at home, it’s actually finished, and each decision until the end of the season should be made with 2026 in mind. Veterans should rest additional. New locations should be experienced. If a player secretly thinks that he could steal 25 bases before September 30, he should get the green light.
Kai-Wei Teng should get prolonged looks, ideally in rotation, because it has the kind of thing that make the strikers of the major league make this face:
But it is almost worth thinking of him like a Knuckleballer, in that it could absolutely take it years Have enough command to your business to be effective. He could never find it at all. He could find it tomorrow and become a starter n ° 2.. No time like the present to discover it … if they are swept away, that is to say.
The giants lose two
All of the above section should apply to the giants if they lose two out of three, but even a single victory would maintain them in a boring way. They would be a game under .500 with 41 games to play, which … ok, it’s actually more time than that. They would also have the chance to recover the Padres at Petco next week. A scan there, and you know what …
This is what makes you lose two out of three the worst result of all. It’s no longer the same. You don’t want the same thing more.
The giants gain two
Less boring than the previous result, of course. Always a lot boring, especially, especially if the single loss comes in the last match in the series. But if the giants win the series, you will reluctantly accompany the idea that they have not completely released. It would be possible for them to present themselves in the position of playoffs with two other hot weeks. Then you look at the list and reluctantly admit that it is talented enough to continue this kind of race.
They would not have their hooks throughout you. But you would care about it, with your big disgust.
The giants sweep
Jump immediately on this train. Go for it. You will not be judged.
Even if a sweeping does not help them to gain a lot of land in the wild ranking in the three days, proof of concept would be sufficient. When the giants play the baseball coherent on an extended section, it looks like the most natural thing in the world. Yeah, that’s how they should play. It is logical that they look like a functional team when they have more than one hot striker at the same time. You just forgot because the last time it happened was six minutes in July. They were on the ground at the time.
If the giants sweep, they will look like the best version of themselves. They looked like a few times this season, and it was easy to believe it.
On the other hand, have you seen this match on Sunday? Frame. What are we talking about, here? This team must be cooked.
Above all, however, I just wanted to share this photo of Nathaniel Lowe making a face “I did not know that he launched this pitch” against Kai-Wei Teng.
Here is another:
Be careful there, Nathaniel Lowe.
(Top Photo: Kelley L Cox / Imagn Images)
