By: Joe Lami

The Giants were hoping to turn things around on Sunday afternoon after dropping two straight to the San Diego Padres on Friday and Saturday. However, their hopes of sending Ryan Vogelsong on the mound fell short, as the Giants feel to San Diego 8-2.

The game was scoreless until the fifth inning, when the Padres were able to get a run across, thanks to an Alexi Amarista sacrifice fly to center. San Diego would then explode in the sixth and seventh innings bringing home four and three runs home respectively.

The Giants only two runs came on a homerun in the top half of the seventh inning, as Chris Dominguez hit his first career Major League homerun, bringing home Brandon Crawford on the swing.

Ryan Vogelsong gets slammed with the loss, as he gave up four runs, two on them earned, on fours hits while striking out five in the five innings in which he pitched.

Ian Kennedy picks up his 12^th win of the season and ups his record to 12-13, as he pitched 6.2 innings. The Dominguez homerun, was that of only five hits he surrendered to the Giants. Kennedy also struck out five in the win.

The sweep comes at the worst time of the season, as only week remains on the season.

With the Dodgers taking care of the Cubs 8-5 on Sunday, San Francisco now sits five games back of first place in the NL West. The loss also ties San Francisco and Pittsburg for the first Wild Card position in the National League. San Francisco hopes to rebound, as they travel to Dodger Stadium tomorrow to try to regain ground on the NL West, if not the Dodgers can clinch the division against their rival.