Giants' bats wake up in Chicago

After an overall tough weekend in New York with the Yankees, the Giants really got their offense kick-started in game one against the White Sox on Monday.

It's taken a few games to get there, but we saw much of what Farhan Zaidi and Gabe Kapler envisioned with this offense. Things got off a bit of a slow start, as Michael Kopech struck out three of the first four batters he saw. After that, however, it was all San Francisco.

Joc Pederson got the party started with the a solo shot in the second then Roberto Perez laced an RBI single to left later on in that same inning. The Giants never looked back after that.

Most of this team was pressing coming into this series, but a few key guys who really…