We knew a week ago, when the San Francisco Giants embarked on a stretch of playing the Los Angeles Dodgers seven times in nine games, that we’d learn something about how the Giants would stack up against the top teams in the division/league (same thing, it would seem).
There aren’t a lot of data points yet, but booking a seven-game series loss when you still have three games left is not ideal.
The Giants did look much more competent on Thursday than they did over the weekend. It didn’t look like a baseball game where one team was substantially better than the other.