CHICAGO — Returning home from a six-game opening road trip, the Giants will rejoice when their charter flight lands back in San Francisco at about 9 p.m. local time Thursday night. While it will be a quick turnaround to their Friday afternoon home opener, on the other side represents their longest time in their own homes, with their families, since the middle of February.
“We’ve been on planes and buses and trains … five cities in eight or nine days,” manager Gabe Kapler lamented recently. “There’s been a lot of travel.”
The Giants started in Scottsdale, flew to San Francisco, played an exhibition in Oakland, opened the season in New York and ended their trip in Chicago. It came to an end on a positive note Thursday, as the Giants turned in a five-homer explosion to back Alex Wood’s first start and beat the White Sox, 16-6, securing their first series win of the young season.
