SF Giants have a chance to top last September for most wins in a month since 2021 with a strong finish to May.
Memorial Day offers a consistent, if not overly important, benchmark in the baseball season. With a run of hot play and a successful road trip, the Giants take a 27-26 record into their holiday afternoon first pitch against the Pirates on Monday.
Let’s use the occasion to take a look at where the Giants have been at this point in recent years, and where they ended up. After all, Memorial Day marks approximately the one-third point of the schedule. There’s a lot of baseball left to be played.2021 – 33-20, second place, 0.5 games backFinish: 77-85, third place2017 – 22-30, fourth place, 11.0 games back2015 – 25-20, second place, 2.0 games backFinish: 88-74, second place, World Series champions2012 – 25-23, second place, 3.
After a blazing hot April, the Pirates have cooled down considerably in May. They are 6-17 this month, coming off two losses in three games in Seattle. The Orioles, another scrappy, young team, have not yet experienced the same reversion to the mean. They own the second-best record in the majors, which also happens to be the second-best record in their own division, which is leaps and bounds the best in the majors.
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