by Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO–The thing about the Giants loss 4-3 from Monday night is the Giants held a one run 2-1 lead and let it go and lost the ball game by a run in the late innings.. Gerrit Cole who started for the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night is now 8-2 and came in and he’s a brother law of Brandon Crawford’s wife and is a East Bay product.

Cole is a very good young product and he’ll be with the Pirates for a very long time. Cole was able to retire Crawford into a double play and he made an out and the next time Crawford could go out and do better. In last week’s Braves series at AT&T the Giants could have won all four of those games but lost heavily 8-0 in game three and 7-5 in game four of that series.In the game against the Pirates on Monday night they could have won that game.

The Giants minor league players have been the whole key to the Giants success and look at Giants second baseman Joe Panik last season and now they have a great third baseman in Matt Duffy. These players came up here and did very well.

Giants plan to have affordable housing at AT&T Park. The Giants and San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim plan on putting an initiative on the November ballot to do construction at parking lot A to build affordable condos which is badly needed in the city. The Bay Area needs to consider more affordable housing but the Giants building affordable housing next to the ball park is a great idea. This initiative could happen or very well not happen we’ll see what happens on this coming November ballot and we’ll talk from there.

Tuesday’s Giant starter Chris Heston had been throwing some great ball he shutout the Braves in his last outing. Heston had a one run lead in the game versus the Pirates on Tuesday he has been a bullseye pitcher. His stuff has been lights out and his breaking ball has been working for him. He very well has been a great contributor the Giants shutout string that they had going in the month of May. The Pirates touched him up for four runs in the top of the third after San Francisco had a two run lead.

Jeremy Kahn is a San Francisco Giants beat writer catch his podcast below at http://www.sportsradioservice.com