The San Francisco Giants entered their four-game series against the Chicago Cubs in a bad place. A very bad place. A place we all end up in from time to time, but all fight like hell to avoid.
The Giants had lost five consecutive games. Two of those games came at the expense of the team standing directly across from them. One of their starting pitchers was injured, and also another one, and that other one as well, along with the other three who were already injured.
Faced with trying to climb out of a season-worst six-game separation from .