With one week left in the 2020 regular season, the San Francisco Giants, a rebuilding team widely thought to be noncompetitive this year, are somehow squarely in the postseason hunt.
The 27-27 Giants have six games remaining, and playoff odds on ESPN, FanGraphs and FiveThirtyEight all give San Francisco about a 50-50 shot of making the postseason for the first time since 2016. The Giants are a distant third in the NL West behind the Los Angeles Dodgers (39-16) and San Diego Padres (34-21) and can only reach the postseason as the No.