Warriors fans can turn their attention to red-hot Giants, plus Duffy status, lineups

Warriors fans can turn their attention to red-hot Giants, plus Duffy status, lineups

[...] that you can turn your attention away from Oracle, after a respectable period to decompress, let me tell you, the San Francisco Giants baseball club is doing pretty well.

The Giants are 44-26 and lead the Dodgers in the National League West by 6 ½ games.

[...] baseman Matt Duffy will not start Monday either.

Manager Bruce Bochy said Duffy was sore an getting an MRI on his foot as batting practice was beginning.

Bochy will start Ramiro Pena at third base, giving him one more right-handed hitter to face lefty Jeff Locke.

Five lefty hitters will start for the Giants.

If you are gazing at the pitching probables for the series and see the name Albert Suarez for Thursday with a quizzical look on your face, he is replacing Matt Cain, who spent two weeks on the disabled list with a hamstring injury, reinjured it in his comeback game at home last week and is back on the disabled list.

[...] the injury is supposed to be mild.

All of you, not just the prodigal sons and daughters, might be interested to know that the Pirates did not land until 2:45 a.m. Monday after playing the ESPN Sunday night game in Chicago.

[...] they have had a Svengali hold on the Giants, winning five of the six meetings last year by a combined score of 32-19.

Twenty years from now, people will know off the top of their heads that the Warriors hold the record for regular-season wins, 73, assuming nobody breaks it.

[...] it will take folks awhile to remember who won the title in 2015-16.

Denard Span is getting the start off after a rough series in Tampa.

Sergio Romo threw 18 pitches in his second shutout inning for Class A San Jose on Sunday and will pitch for Sacramento on Wednesday.

Santiago Casilla rejoined the team four days after his wife gave birth to a daughter.

First-base coach Bill Hayes and his longtime partner also welcomed a baby girl.

Henry Schulman is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.