May was another wild month for the San Francisco Giants. They went 11-16 on the month, and were terrible on the road (6-12, -35 run differential), but somehow managed to actually gain ground on the division lead. They are lucky to be playing in the National League West, which has collectively been bad, where they sat four games behind the division-leading Colorado Rockies entering the month’s final day. At the end of April, they were 5.5 games back.
It’s a minor miracle that the Giants gained ground with a rotation that’s held together with bubblegum and scotch tape, a bullpen that’s been overworked because of the patchwork rotation, a defense that has disappointed, and an offense that was hit or miss (quite literally).