{"id":659401,"date":"2026-04-02T19:35:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659401\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:35:54","slug":"san-francisco-returns-home-to-four-game-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659401\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Returns Home to Four-Game Set"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Francisco Giants<\/a> are under .500 after six games, but this weekend\u2019s series with the New York Mets gives them a chance to fix that. <\/p>\n

The Giants<\/a> (2-4) return home to Oracle Park after taking two out of three games from the San Diego Padres. Monday\u2019s win was the first for new manager Tony Vitello<\/a> while the series win was the first of his managerial career. He was the top of conversation this week as ESPN\u2019s Tim Kurkjian <\/a>defender his hire while former MLB general manager Jim Bowden<\/a>, well, did not. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Giants shook up the lineup, moving shortstop Willy Adames into the leadoff spot and it seemed to help spur the offense. Matt Chapman also had an interesting exchange with Casey Schmitt after an error in the fifth inning of Wednesday\u2019s game. <\/p>\n

The New York Mets (3-3) come to town working through some things after losing two out of three to the St. Louis Cardinals. The Mets have several news players this year, notably second baseman Marcus Semien, who was traded to New York from the Texas Rangers for outfielder Brandon Nimmo. The Mets scorched the Pirates and starter Paul Skenes for 11 runs on opening day. New York has scored 12 runs in the five games since. <\/p>\n

Perhaps the Giants can do to the Mets what the Yankees did to them last weekend? Only the weekend will tell. Here is a preview of the series, with probable starters, game times and television designations. <\/p>\n

San Francisco Giants vs. New York Mets\"San<\/p>\n

San Francisco Giants shortstop Willy Adames. | Denis Poroy-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

at Oracle Park, San FranciscoGame Schedule, Probable Pitchers, TV\/Radio<\/p>\n

Thursday, 6:45 p.m. PT: Giants LHP Robbie Ray (0-1, 3.38) vs. Mets David Peterson (0-0, 0.00); NBC Sports Bay Area, MLB Network\/ KNBR AM 680, 1510 AM KSFN<\/p>\n

Friday, 7:15 p.m. PT: Giants RHP Tyler Mahle (0-1, 4.50) vs. Mets Nolan McLean (0-0, 3.60); NBC Sports Bay Area\/ KNBR AM 680, 1510 AM KSFN<\/p>\n

Saturday, 6:05 p.m. PT: Giants RHP Landen Roupp (1-0, 0.00) vs. Mets RHP Clay Holmes (1-0, 3.18); NBC Sports Bay Area\/ KNBR AM 680, 1510 AM KSFN<\/p>\n

Sunday, 1:05 p.m. PT: Giants RHP Logan Webb (1-1, 7.36) vs. Mets RHP Kodai Senga (0-1, 3.00); NBC Sports Bay Area\/ KNBR AM 680, 1510 AM KSFN<\/p>\n

Next Four Series<\/p>\n

April 6-8: vs. Philadelphia Phillies, at Oracle Park, San Francisco<\/p>\n

April 10-12: at Baltimore Orioles, Oriole Park at Camden Yards<\/p>\n

April 14-16: at Cincinnati Reds, Great American Ballpark<\/p>\n

April 17-19: at Washington Nationals, Nationals Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco Giants are under .500 after six games, but this weekend\u2019s series with the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-659401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-giants","13":"tag-sanfrancisco","14":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","15":"tag-sf","16":"tag-sf-giants","17":"tag-sfgiants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116336800689300355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}