NEW YORK - Predicting wins and losses in a sport as tricky baseball can be a fool's errand - most of the time.
Nobody strapped to a lie detector machine could deny a foreboding over this series for the Giants, with their still-balky offense forced to face a buzz-saw rotation and the troubled back end of their rotation entrusted with the first two games.
Nor can anyone express surprise that the Mets extended their win streak to eight games by preying on Jake Peavy and Matt Cain, who fell behind four runs in a heartbeat Saturday and allowed six runs in six innings in a 6-5 defeat.