The Giants hit 3 home runs for the first time this season. They'll need to hit a lot more

Entering Friday night’s game against the Washington Nationals, the San Francisco Giants were keeping ominous company. They’d hit nine home runs through 19 games, which wasn’t the fewest in franchise history, but the fewest since the ’80s, when baseball players were 160 pounds, wore fuzzy wristbands, had perms and were named Biff. It was the same total as the 2008 Giants through as many games, and that team had just two players hit more than 10 home runs: Bengie Molina, with 16, and Aaron Rowand with 13.Advertisement