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Last month, the Giants celebrated the 10-year anniversary of their last World Series title. For the players who were there for the first one, this season also marks 15 years since another important stretch of baseball.
The seeds of the 2010 title were planted a year earlier, when the Giants shook off four consecutive losing seasons to go 88-74 and finish third in the NL West. In the second half, as young players started to entrench themselves and a few of those one-run games started to turn their way, the Giants had a sense that something was building.
“What you saw was us starting to win close ballgames, not lose close ballgames,” Jeremy Affeldt said earlier this summer. “You saw momentum.”
The 2024 Giants would have to finish 20-4 to reach that 88-win mark. At this point, even getting to 78 wins looks like a stretch. After dropping two of three to the last-place Miami Marlins over the weekend, the Giants are two games under with their next 21 games coming against teams that are currently in a playoff position. Their easiest series the rest of the way is the final one against St. Louis, and even the Cardinals have now moved ahead of the Giants in the Wild Card race.
As they begin a three-game set against the red-hot Arizona Diamondbacks tonight, the Giants are 6 1/2 games back of the final playoff spot. According to FanGraphs, their odds of reaching the postseason have dropped to 0.4 percent.
