What the Giants Learned from a Good Roadtrip That Could Have Been Great

As the Giants head home to face the Oakland Athletics, they look back on a solid roadtrip with a 4-3 record. However, many Giants players and fans saw 5-2 in their sights. However, the weak teams sit and wallow, the strong strive to learn and correct, especially one looking at a possible run to the playoffs. And a lot can be learned from a successful, yet disappointing trip.

The offense, although prolific, was inefficient and wasteful. The Giants on the roadtrip grounded into 10 doubles plays, and it took more than 10.9 hits per game to score 4.7 runs a game. By comparison, it took the Giants' opponents 9.6 hits per game to score the same amount of runs, 4.7 per game. Similarly, the Giants averaged 4.1 walks per game while opponents averaged 3.0 walks per game. All this boils d...

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