Giants’ Rafael Devers, Willy Adames join Barry Bonds, Jeff Kent in San Francisco history originally appeared on The Sporting News
The San Francisco Giants’ hot hitting this month could be a bit too little, too late.
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But their star acquisitions Rafael Devers and Willy Adames are trying their best to get them back into the playoff hunt.
Through Sunday, the Giants are 68-69. That puts them 5.0 games out of the last wild card spot, currently held by the New York Mets at 73-64.
Devers and Adames are doing what they can.
The former Red Sox star Devers homered Sunday to give him his ninth homer of the month. He’s OPSing .989 in August.
Adames also has nine homers this month.
It’s the first time the Giants have had two players with at least nine home runs in a single month since Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent doubled up in 2002, according to beat reporter Shayna Rubin.
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As far as slugging company goes in recent San Francisco history, it’s hard to do much better than that combo from the turn of the century.
The fans who interacted with this stat when Rubin posted it on X weren’t in great moods. They don’t seem to appreciate this kind of history when the Giants still aren’t playing quite well enough.
There is still a month of games, though. The Giants still have 25 games to go.
Teams have made up wider deficits than five games in the standings in 25 games. It’s not impossible.
They’ll certainly need Devers and Adames to stay hot to have any chance, and at least they’re hot right now. That’s better than the alternative.
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