The San Francisco Giants are at the halfway mark of the 2020 MLB season. They’ve played exactly 30 games, with exactly 30 remaining.
They’re not in ideal position, but truthfully, they have to be decently happy with where they are.
Before the season started, I wrote that the Giants could easily be out of the postseason race after a few weeks. Half of their first 20 games were against the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros (arguably the top teams in baseball), with all 10 of those on the road.
But they survived, and even though they hit a rough patch and fell to 8-16, they finished the first half on a furious pace, and have to pretty happy with where they are entering Act 2, which is a good bit easier than Act 1, albeit not easy by any stretch of the imagination.