SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Washington. St. Louis. Pittsburgh.
In one quirky scheduling stretch, the San Francisco Giants are playing each of the three National League opponents they beat on the way to winning an NL pennant and eventually another World Series last fall.
After an impressive four-game sweep against the Nationals in a rematch of the division series, San Francisco hits the road for three games at St. Louis in what has emerged as a rivalry from the NLCS in 2012 and ’14, then four more games at Pittsburgh after the Giants beat the Pirates in the one-game wild card.
San Francisco returned from being swept in four games by the Cubs at Wrigley Field from Aug. 6-9 by splitting a two-game series with Houston then outscoring the Nationals 28-12. The NL West might come down to the wire.
“There’s a lot of baseball left to be played, but facing the Astros who are a good team, the Nationals this series a good team, then we’ve got St. Louis and Pittsburgh and then we come back and have St. Louis and Chicago,” catcher Buster Posey said. “It’s a lot of teams right at the top of their division. It should be some good baseball.”