By Morris Phillips

On three occasions, the Giants have transformed into an unforgiving row of home run sluggers. On three other occasions, they’ve been just as noticeably quiet offensively.

At 3-3, the Giants have survived an opening week against formidable opponents in New York and Chicago because of the homers with the opening home stand against the Royals and Dodgers on tap.

What can expected going forward?

“From start to finish, we kind of kept the gas pedal down from an offensive perspective,” manager Gabe Kapler said. “That’s going to be critical to our success long-term.”

According to Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi, this season’s team would again be among the industry’s best at hitting home runs, even without Aaron Judge or Carlos Correa. Zaidi’s proven himself correct as the Giants lead MLB with 15 home runs after six games. The only troubling aspect is that 12 of those have come in just two games, most recently Thursday afternoon in the 16-6 rout of the White Sox.

“They just didn’t miss the pitches they were looking for,” Chicago’s Seby Zavala said. “A couple balls down the middle, and they didn’t miss today. They didn’t miss much this week.”

“Every mistake we made, they squared it up,” White Sox manager Pedro Grifol said. “I don’t know if that’s who they are or they came in hot, I’m not sure. We’ll find out.”

On Thursday, starter Lance Lynn was left despondent by allowing a first inning blast to Michael Conforto and a second inning job to Blake Sabol. With the Giants already comfortably ahead 6-3 in the fifth, Mike Yastrzemski touched Lynn with a two-run shot to go.

Later against a beleaguered Sox bullpen, Wilmer Flores and J.D. Davis also went deep.

“These guys have power and can hit the ball in the air, and this is the type of stadium that’s going to reward them for taking good swings,” Kapler said.

Lynn allowed eight runs, nine hits in 4 1/3 innings. For the Giants, starter Alex Wood allowed three runs and was lifted when allowed the first two batters of the fourth inning to reach. Jakob Junis came on for Wood, and chaos subsided during his four scoreless innings that earned him the win.

The Giants hit seven homers on Monday, one on Wednesday, and five more Thursday to tie a team record for home runs in a series that dates back to 1961.

The Giants were without Brandon Crawford, with Thairo Estrada in his place at shortstop. That resulted in a pair of mishandled balls that hurt Wood’s cause but didn’t diminish the overall product, which was overwhelming.

The Giants open their home schedule on Friday afternoon with Alex Cobb facing Kansas City’s Brad Keller at 1:35 pm.