The San Francisco Giants are only two games removed from their worst series of the year, in which they got swept, looked mediocre, and dropped from first to third in the division, all while at home.
Now they face the same team, on the road, for four games.
The first series was frustrating, but really didn’t tell us too much about the gap between the Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers; three games is too small of a sample size. Seven games is a touch bigger so we can extract a bit more meaning about the rivalry by Sunday night.