As if losing nearly every single home game for literally a month straight wasn’t offensive enough, the San Francisco Giants are doing so in the most putrid, humiliating, and pathetic way imaginable. This isn’t just a losing streak, it’s an outright insult to the tens of thousands of fans who STILL pack the ballpark on a daily basis.
The Little League World Series began in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on Wednesday morning. It continued at Oracle Park in San Francisco in the top of the second inning. The lowlight reel the Giants put on in that frame was disgustingly reflective of the terrible baseball the team has played since the beginning of July. An uninspiring at best, abhorrent at worst, lifeless march through the most important games of the campaign.
The Giants were pulverized by the Padres on their home diamond. At least that’s easier to swallow than being embarrassed by the Pirates and Nationals. Bill Laskey said it best in Sunday’s postgame show after a humiliating 8-0 defeat to the Nats that somehow barely cracks the top five worst losses of the season.
Bob Melvin and the Giants aren’t caught up with the standings anymore. And that’s a good thing, because while the Giants are still theoretically in the National League Wild Card race, they’re trending far worse than any other contender, and the cluster of teams vying for a limited amount of spots makes any fantasy of a playoff appearance just that. These Giants are just trying to win a home game.
Throughout Spring training and the early part of the 2025 season, the new look Giants preached the importance of fundamentals. Sound defense, situational hitting. You know, the things that separate good baseball teams from great ones. The things that in large part won the Giants three World Series not (too) long ago. The things that have contributed to a miserable July and August for your San Francisco Giants.
Mike Krukow joined Murph & Markus on Wednesday morning. Disappointing Krukow is like disappointing your father in the sense that he’ll say things like ‘I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.’ In a way only he can, Krukow tried to contextualize the Giants’ struggles. At the end of the day, he seems to have at least a bit more of an idea of why the Giants have been so bad at the plate. At least more than their manager does.
Bob Melvin’s take on the Giants complete absence of clean baseball:
For the season/s first three months and change, Giants’ shortstop Willy Adames oozed energy and positivity. It was hard to find Adames without a signature grin pasted on his face, no matter the score. Somehow, this torturous season has managed to break Adames, or so it seems.
He looked to be nearly on the verge of tears as he spoke to reporters following Wednesday’s loss to the Padres. No sport features ups and downs throughout a season quite like baseball. Adames simply pointed out that for the better part of two months, it’s been nearly entirely downs for the orange and black.
The fact that the Giants timed their spectacular nose dive almost identically aligned with the acquisition of Devers is almost certainly a coincidence. Is the fact that it got noticeably worse when Bob Melvin’s 2026 option was picked up a coincidence? Perhaps. But the move looks worse and worse with each passing game. The captain of the ship is clearly not getting through to his crew.
If you’d told an elated Giants fan on June 15 that their team, which recently added Rafael Devers and was one game back of the Dodgers for first place in the NL West, would be sellers at the deadline and almost completely flat line dead by August 14, they probably would have laughed in your face. Yet here we are. The team with the best vibes in baseball won’t have much to play for besides pride over the season’s final six weeks. It’ll be Buster Posey’s next big task to decide who has to pay for that reality.