The Giants were expected to be good this season. With an active payroll of over $163 million, San Francisco was primed to build towards another championship run. But sometimes even the best laid plans don’t work out and the Giants’ plans for this season have failed miserably so far. San Francisco sits at 27-47 with the second-worst record in baseball behind only the lowly Phillies.
The Giants have lost 14 games by five or more runs and are 9-12 in one-run games.
Reliever George Kontos told Murph & Mac on Thursday that losing tight games has been a serious issue for the Giants this season. At the same time, Kontos expressed optimism about some of the brief moments of success his team has shown at various points this season.
“In years past when we’ve been very successful or competing and contending those one run games that we have been so good at winning and pulling through, we’re just not able to come through on this year it seems like,” Kontos said. “We’re playing good baseball at times and then some things just won’t click and we’ll end up in the locker room after the game being like how’d that one slip away? It just seems like that’s happened just a few too many times this year. There are guys in our clubhouse who know how to win and know how to come through in the clutch. This is just one of those years where things just don’t seem to be going our way right now. It just doesn’t seem like we are firing on all cylinders consistently. It’s definitely not too late to turn it around, we’ve had flashes of playing really good baseball. Nobody in the clubhouse has lost hope of turning this season around, that’s for sure.”
Listen to the full interview below. To hear Kontos’ comments on where the team stands, skip to the 3:24 mark.
