The 2026 season began in San Francisco with Tony Vitello’s Giants losing 7–0 to the Yankees, the start of a three-game sweep in which the Giants scored one run on 13 hits. It was a prophetic series. The Giants will wind up with one of their five worst teams in franchise history while the Yankees are the top run prevention team in baseball.
From that start, most everything else about the season was hard to see coming.
