MILWAUKEE — After being swept at Coors Field last September, the Giants arrived at Miller Park in Milwaukee near the end of the 2018 season as an exhausted, depleted and overmatched bunch.
The club had lost Buster Posey, Johnny Cueto and Pablo Sandoval to season-ending injuries and had recently traded Andrew McCutchen in a deal that signaled an unofficial waving of a white flag.
The only flag the 2019 Giants have seen in the past few weeks is a green one as they see an opportunity to race up the Wildcard standings. With an 8-3 series-clinching victory over the Brewers on Sunday, this year’s trip to Miller Park only added to a growing sense in the Giants clubhouse that their roster has enough pieces to keep on climbing.