Well, between the Tigers' prowess on the road - a 29-30 away record that's 12th in MLB (6th in the AL), a 3.81 ERA that's 9th in MLB (4th in the AL), a +15 run differential better than half the sport - and their President of Baseball Operations, Scott Harris, being the former GM of the San Francisco Giants, it means it won't be even a little bit easy.
This 3-game series will conclude a 16-game stretch wherein the Giants face 5 teams that are all sub-.500. They're currently 10-3. With the Tigers having nearly swept the Giants' sabrmetric siblings up in Seattle, 11-5 or even 10-6 is on the table, and that would not ultimately wind up being the great stretch the team would need to legimtately insert itself back into the Wild Card #3 race.
Their team wRC+ of 90 means they're 10% worse than the league average, but ultimately, the team's line of .231/.296/.392 is simply the 5th-worst lineup in all of baseball, with only the Pirates (87 wRC+), Marlins (83), Rockies (80), and White Sox (73) ahead of them.
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