Giants Must Hope Awful Home Start is Portent of Good Things to Come

The San Francisco Giants are not off to a good start in the Tony Vitello era.

The first-year manager, who has no pro baseball experience but coached at the University of Tennessee and won a national championship, has presided over the franchise’s worst start at home in more than a quarter-century, per NBC Sports Bay Area’s Alex Pavlovic.

San Francisco started the season at home and lost all three games against the New York Yankees, including an epic failure to score runs that set franchise and MLB records. Following a short trip to San Diego, the Giants then hosted the New York Mets, followed by their current series with the Philadelphia Phillies.

San Francisco won the series opener with the Mets last Thursday, but lost the next four games, including Monday’s series opener with the Phillies. That left the Giants with a 1-7 record at Oracle Park through eight games.

One must go back a ways to find that awful a start at home for the Giants, and it has an interesting history.

The Giants’ Last 1-7 Start at Home