by Michael Duca

SAN FRANCISCO–The San Francisco Giants who brought a eight game consecutive home loss streak into AT&T Park and by all means necessary want to avoid a franchise record 11 game home loss streak. The club is not too panicky right now just being 3.5 games behind first place Los Angeles. You have to go back to the 1940 New York Giants to find the last Giant team that lost 11 straight at home.

The 2015 Giants will need over three homestands to eclipse the New York record. With train travel in 1940 and not plane travel 11 game homestands were pretty common back then. The Giants want to avoid their third five game loss streak at home. Let’s face it you show up and you put on the uniform and you strap it on everyday with the intention of winning. It’s not a question of you wanting to avoid a five game losing streak you want to avoid a one game losing streak. You just come out to win everyday and that’s the goal that’s the reason why you show up.

The Giants had a successful road trip in Philadelphia and New York combined going 4-1, that was a good road trip, this is a good road team, this is one of the best road teams in baseball. These guys know each other they like each other and they get along well. To be perfectly blunt and honest with you one of the reasons these homestands have been terrible is that the schedule makers just butchered things for the Giants on this particular trip.

This is going to happen again very soon, the Mets had the option on get away day to determine the time o and they made the Giants play a night game. The game went a little longer than anybody would have hoped it wanted to go and as a consequence they missed the curfew at LaGuardia by six minutes. They had to get leave LaGuardia and take a bus to the other side of Long Island to JFK where the private terminal was being occupied by a Saudi Prince and they waited for that to be cleared before they can get on a different aircraft from the one they originally chartered to come back to SFO and they played a game that night.

That’s going to throw them off and get you out of your routine, it won’t be long and it will happen again, there’s another selected getaway night on a Sunday in Washington that the Nationals selected on July 5th which is scheduled as a 8:00PM EDT game and afterwards the Giants hop a charter again and fly out to SFO and then play that same night they arrive on Mon Jul 6th for a 7:15pm start.

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