{"id":139222,"date":"2026-05-25T17:22:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/series-preview-can-the-giants-turn-the-tables-on-the-dbacks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T17:22:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:22:59","slug":"series-preview-can-the-giants-turn-the-tables-on-the-dbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/series-preview-can-the-giants-turn-the-tables-on-the-dbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Series Preview: Can the Giants turn the tables on the Dbacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wait, didn\u2019t I just do one of these<\/a>? No, seriously. Literally a week ago I was in this space talking about how the Giants were going to see how they measured up against a non-Dodger, non-Padre NL West opponent and a team that had all the scrappiness they\u2019ve craved. So\u2026 has anything changed since then?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Well, except that Arizona embarrassed the Giants pretty thoroughly, dropping them to 20-30 on the season and compelling Bay Area media to ponder not just on the radio airwaves but in an interview with Buster Posey himself if the team was undergoing a \u201csoft rebuild.\u201d They looked so bad in getting swept by Arizona that people thought it must\u2019ve been intentional.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It turns out that, no, the Giants aren\u2019t doing a \u201csoft rebuild,\u201d they really are bad despite trying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Oh sure, winning a series against a White Sox team on the upswing is good fun and Rafael Devers\u2019 bat does seem to be swinging back to his career averages, but the hole is pretty deep, and that\u2019s before considering how it\u2019s been endemic within Giants fandom this season to extrapolate a season of success from a win or two. Now, before accusations of simply doing the exact opposite \u2014 extrapolating a season of misery from losing streaks \u2014 I must point out that the Giants have lost a lot more games than they\u2019ve won and have spent most of this season looking more bad than good, including approximately 117 hours ago against this very team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the Giants\u2019 favor is that Arizona did<\/em> lose 1 of the 4 games they hosted against the Colorado Rockies, so, it\u2019s not like the Giants were gobbled up by a team on a white-hot streak of success. The Dbacks outscored the Rockies 19-9 in those four games compared to 23-8 against the Giants in their three-game series, so, the Giants are kinda-sorta worse than the Rockies at this point.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On May 8, Arizona tied their season low of 3 games below .500 at 17-20 (they started the season 0-3). Since then, they\u2019ve gone 11-4. Ketel Marte (202 wRC+) and Corbin Carroll (198) have led the charge on offense \u2014 they combined for 7-for-11 with 5 RBI in today\u2019s 9-1 win over the Rockies, with Marte hitting a pair of doubles and Carroll a pair of triples. So, they\u2019re rolling. The rotation has been strong, with Michael Soroka (1.50 ERA), Eduardo Rodriguez (1.74 ERA), and Merrill Kelly (2.05 ERA) making three strong starts apiece. But, they\u2019ve also played 9 home games during this stretch and are 8-1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Arizona\u2019s road record on the season (10-14, -16 run differential) might just be how the Giants get some baseball revenge on the snakes. If <\/em>the Giants keep hitting a little bit more like how they did in the latter two games of the White Sox series, they\u2019ve got a solid shot of winning the series. Here\u2019s a little secret: in the same \u201cSince May 9th\u201d split I used up above to contextualize Marte\u2019s and Carroll\u2019s hot streaks, five Giants have hit above league average (an important note that none of these figures incorporate the latest win):<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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