The Giants managed to hang on to their double-digit fourth-quarter Thursday night, which enabled surging Hondo to pare his deficit to 1,355 durhams.

Friday: Mr. Aitch is calling on Lester, aka Jonny Lager to generate some cheers in Wrigley — 10 units on the Cubs.

Hondo forgets, if the Giants don’t make it to the playoffs for a fourth straight season, whose turn is it to be the scapegoat, the offensive or defensive coordinator? … From e-mailer BarkingMut, the HondoNation SoBe bureau chief: It’s hard to determine which Washington baseball manager named Williams is more clueless, Matt, the one who is helplessly watching the Nationals choke their way to the finish line, or Ted, the one whose head is being cryogenically preserved in an Arizona deep freeze.