I don\u2019t know what to call this segment of the schedule prior to the All-Star game\/break because it sure as heck isn\u2019t half a season. The 2026 San Francisco Giants played their 81st game 17 days ago (it was a loss, of course) and will have 66 games remaining when they resume play on Friday in Seattle. So, let\u2019s call it the first part of the season. As bad as the Giants were in that first part and figure to be in the second part (and for the rest of this decade, probably), they still managed to stumble into some good moments. Here are five of them.<\/p>\n
5. Heliot Ramos flips is bat after breaking up Dylan Cease\u2019s no-hitter bid (July 8th)<\/p>\n
This was pitched by our Sean Keane and it\u2019s possible that he intended for this to be one of the five worst moments of the first part of the season, but I am having a hard time finding anything wrong with Heliot Ramos in 2026, save the time he missed from injury; so, here he is flipping his bat after breaking up a no-hitter in a game that was already hella lost.<\/p>\n
This is 100% like the end of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode \u201cTake Me Out to the Holosuite\u201d where Captain Sisko puts together a ragtag baseball team to face off against some really jerky Vulcans. The Niners lose to the Vulcan Logicians, 10-1, but at the end of the episode they celebrate their 1 run like they\u2019d won the game, confounding the logical Vulcans who thought such a dominate win would be a humiliation.<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t humiliate the Giants. They are beyond the point of embarrassment. They will take any victory.<\/p>\n
Baseball, like life, is a tough sport. And, like life, most of baseball\u2019s participants are losers. But holding on to the spirit of competition and never giving up despite always losing or being so bad \u2014 just outright sucking when compared to the competition? That\u2019s living. And here\u2019s Heliot Ramos showing the indominable spirit every pro athlete should have and every fan should appreciate. Even when the Giants lose, they aren\u2019t beaten.<\/p>\n
4. Going 4-3 against the Dodgers<\/p>\n
Not so much a moment as a series of moments, but after having already surrendered the rivalry to the Dodgers<\/a>, seeing the Giants grasp and claw at them like a corpse expelling gasses has been fun to see and certainly another example of a bad team having some fight in it.<\/p>\n Tyler Mahle outdueled Shohei Ohtani the night after the Giants scored 3 runs off of Yoshinobu Yamamoto and won the game despite Landen Roupp walking 5 and being succeeded by 5 relievers? Humm Baby!<\/p>\n Two and a half weeks later, they rolled into Dodger Stadium and took the first two games of a four game series, with Trevor McDonald, Matt Gage, Keaton Winn, and JT Brubaker limiting the Dodgers to 3 runs in the first game\u2019s 9-3 win. In game two, Eric Haase homered twice and Harrison Bader homered as well as the Giants once again took it to Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Adrian Houser, believe it or not got the win.<\/p>\n Sure, sure, the Dodgers went on to win the next two games and the 18-24 mark the Giants achieved after winning those first two games would only be matched in terms of games under .500 just once more all season , when they were 20-26, the important thing is that the greatest team in the history of professional sports run by the smartest front office that ever existed and populated by coaches and scouts the likes of which have never been seen \u2014 a team that is so good that fans have demanded the sport kills itself with a salary cap \u2014 lost 4 out of their first 7 games against the lowly, pathetic San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n Is it a simple matter of \u201cThat\u2019s Baseball!\u201d or does it indicate that a threepeat is unlikely? I think it\u2019s this, because it\u2019s hard to imagine that the Giants have been secretly talented this whole time but only showing it against the Dodgers. In fact, I think that\u2019s unlikely. Instead, the reason why this is a best moment is because it\u2019s the Giants, the Dodgers\u2019 former rivals, that\u2019s showing to the rest of the sport that LA can bleed, and since it can bleed, it can be defeated.<\/p>\n 3. Casey Schmitt\u2019s 3-run home run against the Marlins (April 26th)<\/p>\n