White Sox 8, Giants 1: Madison Bumgarner has another rough start as Chicago rolls.

CHICAGO — The Giants were miserably flat over the weekend against one of the saddest teams in the majors. Is it possible a home series with the Dodgers could awaken them?

And never mind that the Dodgers, who’ve lost 15 of 16, aren’t the same Dodgers who went on a 50-10 run immediately before this slump.

The Giants are in no position to have sympathy for a nosediving team. After all, they’ve been in a nosedive since Opening Day.

After the Giants were smoked by the White Sox again, 8-1, manager Bruce Bochy said, “We’ve got some guys who are just really cold right now. So hopefully getting home and maybe added adrenaline or something will spark us a little bit.”

After winning Friday’s openSaturday, er, the Giants were outscored 21-2 and outhit 31-8 the next two games. Jose Abreu, who was pursued at some level by the Giants before he signed with Chicago in October 2013 after defecting from Cuba, hit for the cycle Saturday and added two homers Sunday.

With six games left with the Dodgers, starting Monday night at China Basin, the Giants have a chance to win the season series. For as bad as they’ve played, the Giants are 6-7 against their chief rivals, and the teams haven’t played since the Dodgers went in their tailspin.

“That would be definitely be a positive for us,” said Madison Bumgarner, who gave up six runs on 10 hits a day after Jeff Samardzija gave up six runs on eight hits.

It won’t happen if the Giants swing as they did the past two days against the American League’s worst team. Three hits five Sunday. Their only runs came on solo homers, including Jarrett Parker’s in the finale.

Buster Posey, who had three of the eight hits, had a different take on whether beating the Dodgers in the season series would be a huge benefit.

“It’s tough to say, really, just with the way this season’s gone. I don’t know if you can take much solace in something like that,” he said. “Obviously, that would be nice to do, but I don’t know if I could agree or disagree whether it’s a psychological advantage one way or another.”

The Giants have been terrible against every other National League West team: 5-12 against the Rockies, 5-11 against the Padres and 5-8 against the Diamondbacks.

Somehow, the Giants have hung with the Dodgers, who were 91-36 late last month and now are 92-51. Of the Giants’ seven losses to the Dodgers, three were by one run, another by two runs. Four games required extra innings.

“It shows we could play well against good teams,” shortstop Brandon Crawford said. “They’ve got the best record in the National League, and we’ve played them well, no matter how we’re playing against other teams. It just shows we have the potential to win a lot of games.”

Five of the runs Bumgarner yielded came in a dreadful second inning. Yolmer Sanchez hit an RBI double, and right fielder Mac Williamson’s errant throw allowed a second runner to score and prompted Bumgarner, who was backing up the plate, to tumble in pursuit of the ball on the grass in front of Chicago’s dugout.

After Tim Anderson singled home a run, Abreu hit a tworun homer on a pitch that did exactly what Bumgarner wanted.

“I don’t really know what to do there,” he said. “Pretty impressive hitting, I guess. I threw the ball right where I wanted to. That’s just, ‘Hang with ’em there,’ I guess.”

Albert Suarez relieved Bumgarner and gave up Abreu’s second homer and third in two days. Abreu has 31 on the season, 122 in his four-year career, and reminded Giants fans of what could have been on a team desperate for some offensive punch.

“We had a lot of interest in him,” Bochy said. “He’s had a nice career. He’s a nice player.”