Given how close the Giants are to first place in the National League West, it is hard to conceive how they could reach the final week of August without winning a second-half series at home.
Had they lost their series against the worst team in baseball, too, they might have had to concede that this was not their year and they should play for 2017.
In Sunday's decisive game, they clinched the series with an exclamation point, battering the Braves 12-4.
The Giants won with a rare display of power, their first four-homer game at AT&T Park since 2010.