The Giants and the “Good Team” debacle

The Giants lost to a “good team” today. In fact they have lost three straight games against said good team to complete the sweep. They gave up a four-run deficit in the last three innings of today’s loss to the Nationals. The Giants were a good team a couple weeks ago. They beat out the first-place Dodgers in a three-game shutout sweep at AT&T (Where they are 26-16 with a 2.41 ERA) and then split a four-game series with the NL Central first-place Cincinnati Reds.  They were on their way up while the rest were all on their way down. After a 5-2 home stand against first place teams, I knew for sure this will be a playoff team. I looked ahead to the Giants upcoming road trip and all I saw was an opportunity to get respect from around the league. The first thing I saw was a series against the first-place Washington Nationals. In Washington. On the Fourth of July weekend. With Bryce Harper trying to get a vote into the All-star game. The nation and all of baseball was keeping an eye ...