Happy Thursday, San Francisco Giants fans. The Giants don’t play today, and for most of the year the off days have felt like a blessing.
But right now they don’t. After what the Giants have done this week, I want to watch them play more baseball!
The Giants completed a three-game sweep of the defending National League champion Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday. It was their first sweep of the season. Perhaps this says more about other teams than it does about the Giants, but their three-game winning streak had them tied with the Houston Astros for the longest active streak in the Majors (the Astros won later in the day, extending their streak to four, while the Miami Marlins won later in the day to match the Giants), and their 20-23 record has them a half game ahead of the San Diego Padres in the NL West standings.