How Giants missed a golden opportunity in St. Louis

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Sports, Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Mlb

4.7 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On "Giants Talk," hosts Cole Kuiper and Alex Pavlovic break down San Francisco's series loss in St. Louis and explain why the Giants missed a golden opportunity to make up ground in the MLB playoff race. Plus, a preview of the Giants' series against the red-hot Diamondbacks.

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0:00.0	Save big during the Labor Day sale at Mancini's Sleep World. Shoppingworld.com.
0:09.6	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast. Here's Alex Babovich and Cole Kuiper. I know those guys.
0:25.8	What's up, Giants fans? Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk. I'm Cole Kuiper. He
0:32.1	with Giants Insider, Alex Pavlovich. Giants drop the must winwin series versus the cards.
0:38.1	We'll talk about what went wrong, plus what this means for that long shot,
0:43.1	playoff chance we discussed, and we'll do some mailback questions and look around the wild card and the NL West.
0:49.8	Before we get started, Giants talk is presented by Mancini Sleep World.
0:53.3	Save big during a Labor Day sale at Mancini's Sleep World Shop, Sleep World.
0:58.5	Alex Mancini's is open seven days a week so you can come and visit your nearest Mancini Sleep World store today or shop online anytime at sleepworld.com for the best in comfort and savings.
1:12.9	Is Red Zone on?
1:14.0	Giant Stocks also.
1:14.9	Can I just go lie in a bed?
1:17.0	Watch some rough.
1:18.6	Yeah.
1:19.0	Why not?
1:19.6	You know, that's the best way to wind down a rough series is watch it in bed.
1:24.6	Giant Stocks also presented by UCSF Health.
1:27.0	All-Star Care for Every Fan.
1:28.3	UCSF Health is the official health care partner of the San Francisco Giants.
1:33.6	All right, Alex, how frustrating of a series did we just watch?
1:38.0	Because as this team winds down the final month of the season with what is essentially a must win every series month.
1:48.1	Dropping a totally winnable series like this is the opposite of what they can allow to happen.
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