SAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants must scale certain obstacles along their path toward securing a National League Wild Card berth.
Those challenges include the obvious: scoring more runs and allowing fewer of them against the Colorado Rockies, whom the Giants open a three-game series against on Tuesday at AT&T Park. Then comes a trio of weekend games against the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have clinched the NL West title the Giants once believed would be theirs.
Of course, if upgrading the offense and tightening up the pitching were simple, the Giants would have accomplished both goals by now.