The Giants lost 6-1 on their final day in Washington D.C., falling for a fifth straight game and becoming the first team since June 2021 to get swept by the Nationals. They scored just five runs in the series.
"Don't press at all. All good teams, all good offenses, go through challenging times," Kapler said."This is another one. We've gone through several of them this year and come out on the other side, both on the offensive side and also on the general team side."I have nothing but confidence in this group. Again, be nice and even through a downtime, just like we're nice and even through an up time.
Kapler pointed out that the Giants have hit into bad luck lately, and there is some merit to that. They're last in the Majors in Batting Average on Balls in Play this month, but at the same time, nobody brings up BABIP or luck when the balls are finding holes, as they were in June when the Giants ranked fifth in the stat.
BABIP also is dependent on actually putting the ball in play, and a team that leads the NL in strikeouts had a couple of big ones on Sunday. With two runners in scoring position and the Giants down by just three on Sunday, Mike Yastrzemski swung through an elevated fastball and David Villar took an inside slider that was framed into strike three.
On Sunday, both were part of a bottom half of the lineup that has struggled mightily in recent weeks while relying mostly on rookies who are taking their lumps at the big league level. If the Giants are to add over the next week, an obvious move seems to be getting a more experienced bat or two in the mix, lessening the reliance on players who still are developing.Brandon Crawford will be back on Friday and Thairo Estrada should return at some point in early August.
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