​I don’t know what to call this segment of the schedule prior to the All-Star game/break because it sure as heck isn’t half a season. The 2026 San Francisco Giants played their 81st game 17 days ago (it was a loss, of course) and will have 66 games remaining when they resume play on Friday in Seattle. So, let’s call it the first part of the season. As bad as the Giants were in that first part and figure to be in the second part (and for the rest of this decade, probably), they still managed to stumble into some good moments. Here are five of them.This was pitched by our Sean Keane and it’s possible that he intended for this to be one of the five worst moments of the first part of the season, but I am having a hard time finding anything wrong with Heliot Ramos in 2026, save the time he missed from injury; so, here he is flipping his bat after breaking up a no-hitter in a game that was already hella lost.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementView LinkThis is 100% like the end of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Take Me Out to the Holosuite” where Captain Sisko puts together a ragtag baseball team to face off against some really jerky Vulcans. The Niners lose to the Vulcan Logicians, 10-1, but at the end of the episode they celebrate their 1 run like they’d won the game, confounding the logical Vulcans who thought such a dominate win would be a humiliation.You can’t humiliate the Giants. They are beyond the point of embarrassment. They will take any victory.Baseball, like life, is a tough sport. And, like life, most of baseball’s participants are losers. But holding on to the spirit of competition and never giving up despite always losing or being so bad — just outright sucking when compared to the competition? That’s living. And here’s Heliot Ramos showing the indominable spirit every pro athlete should have and every fan should appreciate. Even when the Giants lose, they aren’t beaten.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementNot so much a moment as a series of moments, but after having already surrendered the rivalry to the Dodgers, seeing the Giants grasp and claw at them like a corpse expelling gasses has been fun to see and certainly another example of a bad team having some fight in it.Tyler Mahle outdueled Shohei Ohtani the night after the Giants scored 3 runs off of Yoshinobu Yamamoto and won the game despite Landen Roupp walking 5 and being succeeded by 5 relievers? Humm Baby!Two and a half weeks later, they rolled into Dodger Stadium and took the first two games of a four game series, with Trevor McDonald, Matt Gage, Keaton Winn, and JT Brubaker limiting the Dodgers to 3 runs in the first game’s 9-3 win. In game two, Eric Haase homered twice and Harrison Bader homered as well as the Giants once again took it to Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Adrian Houser, believe it or not got the win.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementSure, sure, the Dodgers went on to win the next two games and the 18-24 mark the Giants achi