The San Francisco Giants didn’t play on Friday night, which was weird. Friday off-days are a very odd thing, and I don’t particularly like them (for baseball, that is ... for me, I welcome them).
But most other teams did play on Friday because ... duh. It’s Friday during baseball season. You play baseball. It’s what you do.
For the most part, the Friday outcomes were favorable to the Giants. The Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres — who admittedly are looking pretty out of reach for the Giants — both lost (finally!