The 2025 San Francisco Giants are actively proving that the Major League baseball season is far too long to get too wrapped up in the small peaks and valleys of a long season.
A month ago, if you’d circled this Giants home three game weekend series against the Dodgers and said that the Giants would be in the thick of the playoff race, you’d have probably been laughed out. See, the mid-August Giants were a miserable bunch. Still reeling from an inexplicable summer swoon that forced a front office that had acquired Rafael Devers in June to sell key pieces at the deadline.
Boy would it be nice to have those pieces now. If the Giants had just treaded water for all of July instead of floundering on the dock during a putrid stretch of 15 of 16 home losses, they’d be right there in the mix for the division, with a cemented Wild Card berth if they came up short.
But none of that has mattered to the Giants of the last three weeks or so. That version, a juggernaut that finds itself a game behind the Mets for the third and final Wild Card spot, has been baseball’s hottest team.
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As the Dodgers roll into Oracle Park for the second and final time this weekend, the stakes couldn’t be higher for the streaking Giants. They’ll see the hated Dodgers once more after this weekend when they meet in Los Angeles later this month. If the Giants are to secure an improbable playoff bid, they will have to do much of it against the defending champions.
First pitch is at 7:15pm tonight, 6:05 on Saturday, and 1:05 on Sunday. Justin Verlander takes on Yoshinobu Yamamoto in the series opener. All games can be heard live on KNBR 680AM/104.5FM, and always on the free KNBR App.
