Giants Win One - Late August at Home

The Giants beat the Padres tonight by a score of 8 - 3.

Don't let the score fool you. The Giants piled the runs on a couple of Padres' relief pitchers, had those relievers been competent, the score might have been more like 4 -3. And that means the Giants have a .250 record in their last 4 games against crappy teams. They lost 2 thoroughly winnable games to Arizona who made it clear this year and reiterated at the trading deadline that they weren't even trying to win, and then lost in traditional Giants fashion to a nobody rookie pitcher last night. They once had a shot at the wild card, now, that is a pipe dream. As, probably, is a .500 record. After their series against the Padres, they…