Well, well, well. How the turn tables.
In shocking - truly shocking, I tell you - news, the San Francisco Giants are not a team that will win 19 games for every six they lose, as was the case in July.
After losing to the Washington Nationals 4-1, the Giants have now lost as many games in August as they lost in July. But rather than have 19 wins to go against those six losses, they have but one August victory.
August was supposed to be a barometer for the Giants. After climbing out of the early-mid season casket to put themselves so close to the playoff race that Farhan Zaidi opted against trading two of the best assets on the market, the Giants got to face the Philadelphia Phillies (a team ahead of them in the Wild Card standings), the Colorado Rockies (in Coors Field, where the Giants come to compose their will), the Nationals (a team ahead of them in the Wild Card standings), the Phillies again, and the Oakland Athletics (an honest-to-goodness quality Bay Area baseball team).