by Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO–Thus far this season the Achilles heel for the San Francisco Giants is the lack of being able to score with runners in scoring position.

Entering the game, the Giants were an abysmal 13-for-91 and went 0-for-7 tonight and the Colorado Rockies took advantage of the misfortune and won the game 4-1 before a sellout crowd of 41,051, the 329th consecutive sellout at AT&T Park.

Corey Dickerson got the Rockies on the board in the top of the second inning, as he lashed a single to centerfield that scored Nolan Arenado, who led off the inning with a double off of eventual losing pitcher Tim Hudson.

Dickerson scored the Rockies second run of the inning, as he scored on a Hudson wild pitch.

D.J. LeMahieu drove in the Rockies third run of the evening in the top of the fourth inning, as he sacrificed to first base to Dickerson with from third base.

It was the second run scored on the evening by the left-handed hitting Dickerson.

The Giants put together a rally in the bottom of the eighth inning, as Angel Pagan picked up his third hit of the night, then Brandon Belt walked.

Gregor Blanco then came up, and hit what looked like a certain foul ball; however Arenado reached out and caught the ball, as he dove into the stands.

Matt Duffy finally got the Giants on the board, as he hit a sacrifice fly to right field to score Pagan from third base after he advanced there on the great play by Arenado.

Buster Posey, who did not start the game, nearly tied up the game; however Charlie Blackmon made a leaping catch at the wall to end the inning.

The Rockies added an insurance run in the top of the ninth inning, as Wilin Rosario grounded out to Brandon Crawford to score Dickerson with his third run of the game.

Christian Bergman went the first four innings for the Rockies, as he allowed just three hits, while walking two and striking out four.

Since Bergman did not go the required five innings to pickup the victory, the victory went to Scott Oberg, who was making his major league debut against the Giants.

In his only inning of work, Oberg allowed a hit and struck out one before being replaced by veteran LaTroy Hawkins.

Hudson was on the losing end of things for the first time this season, as he went seven innings, allowing three runs on eight hits while walking no one and striking out four.

This was the fifth consecutive loss for the Giants, their longest listing streak since losing six in a row twice during the 2014 season, with the last time coming from July 24-29.

That last six-game losing game streak began in the road finale against the Philadelphia a Phillies, then the Giants were swept by the Dodgers and then lost the first two games to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Jeremy Kahn is a San Francisco Giants beat writer for http://www.sportsradioservice.com Jeremy says for the Giants not to panic it’s only nine games in listen to the podcast below