Giants granted a rude reality check by Padres

Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images I’ve gotten used to the San Francisco Giants winning. I’m guessing you have, too.

The Giants entered Thursday night’s game having won 15 of their last 20 games, a staggering rate for an entire third of this pandemic-shortened, wacky, wild, stupid, mesmerizing, ridiculous excuse for a season.

Having 15 wins in 20 games is a helluva stretch, no matter who you are.

But — there’s always a but — 14 of those 15 wins came against teams that currently have losing records. That’s not the Giants fault; you can only play the teams in front of you, and a three-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers serves as the only team the Giants faced in that…