A disastrous late-inning collapse against the Athletics has the San Francisco Giants spiraling toward the division cellar, leaving the struggling franchise just games away from rock bottom in the National League West.
In a scenario no one saw coming, the San Francisco Giants are just 1.5 games out from being last place in the National League West Division.
The Colorado Rockies are currently 32-49, a record that puts them 20.0 games back on the division leading Los Angeles Dodgers. Currently, the Giants are 18.5 games out.
San Francisco suffered an all-time collapse on Thursday, June 25, against the Athletics. The final score read 9-6 in a game that was going the Giants way, until it didn't.
Instead of securing their first series sweep of the season, San Francisco sits at 33-47, an astonishing 14 games below .500.
Tony Vitello Recaps the Loss
"We gave up a touchdown in the last three innings,” he said. “You could certainly, if you want to play devil’s advocate, there’s two sides to the whole thing. You could talk about some balls finding holes or a broken-bat hit and things like that. But the bottom line is we needed to do better.”
No matter how unlucky the Giants were, there's simply no excuse to blowing a 6-2 lead, one San Francisco had through six innings.
To Vitello's point, the Giants gave up two runs in the seventh, one in the eighth, and four in the ninth. In total, 15 hits were given up, and sure enough, seven of the A's nine runs came in the final three innings.
San Francisco's manager continued, "Again, if you’re going to play both sides of the coin, however you want to say it, the A’s have been held down well below their capabilities offensively. Eventually, they were going to get some hits. Unfortunately, it was against us today.”
Can the Giants Season be Saved?
Are the Giants at the point of no return? Should they really concede and waive the white flag? These are certainly questions for Giants President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey, someone who accomplished a whole lot of nothing in his recent press conference.
If a good team would blow a loss like this, it's much easier to leave it in the past and move on. For San Francisco, this has become normal.
They've now dropped four of their last six, and instead of facing one of the best teams in baseball coming off a sweep, the Giants are now tasked with taking on the Atlanta Braves fresh off one of their most embarrassing losses of the season.
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