SAN FRANCISCO — The schedule set up like a dream.
No Max Scherzer. No Patrick Corbin. No Stephen Strasburg.
With a chance to gain significant ground in the National League Wild Card chase, the Giants did not have to face any of the Nationals’ top three starters in a critical three-game series at Oracle Park this week.
The results were nothing shy of a nightmare.
The Nationals completed a three-game sweep with a 4-1 defeat of the Giants Wednesday as an unheralded trio of starters — Erick Fedde, Anibal Sanchez and Joe Ross — combined to allow just two runs over 18 innings this week.