The San Francisco Giants have struggled away from home this season, and now they're tasked with playing six straight games from Aug. 18-23.

Once they get done with those six, they're not even rewarded with a day off. San Francisco will return home for when things get interesting. They'll play seven games in six days before enjoying Sunday, Aug. 30, off, only for that to turn into one game at Atlanta, which leads into another stretch of 10 games in 10 days.

At this point, the Giants are just making sure they get in every game they're supposed to be playing. For now, all eyes are on the Cleveland Guardians, a team that is a surprising four games under .500 at home while the Giants are 18 games under .500 on the road.

Carson Whisenhunt will put his 3-3 record and 6.11 ERA to the test against this 60-65 Guardians squad. The biggest test comes not from Cleveland's offense, but rather the fact that this Giants team is stuck facing a 13-4 Foster Griffin in the series opener.

Griffin has a stellar 3.25 ERA, and surprisingly that's not even the lowest ERA a Guardians starting pitcher has in this series. Even more surprisingly, his 125 strikeouts are the fewest, even though that's just three shy of Landen Roupp, the Giants' projected game three starter who has the most of any San Francisco starter in the series.

MLB.com doesn't list a game two starter for the Giants, but ESPN has Adrian Houser penciled in. He's made a plea to return to the starting rotation, and at this point in the season, there's really no reason not to give him another chance.

The only problem is the Giants have little to no room for error knowing they're going up against Parker Messick and his incredible 2.59 ERA. Messick is 9-7 on the year and has struck out 142 batters, a number that feels like nothing knowing what's to come in the finale.

This is an incredibly scary trio for the Giants to face. Roupp is five games under .500 and has an ERA north of 4.00, while Williams will come into this contest with a strong 11-7 record to go along with his 3.74 ERA and 190 strikeouts.

Who knows what shape the Giants will be in by the time game three comes around, but it's clear that falling to last place in the National League West is more of a possibility than ever before.