by Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO–The Giants in the month of June are just a game out of first place behind first place Los Angeles in the National League West. Heading for the first week of July if the Giants stay healthy they can make a run at the Dodgers. It’s a two team race it’s almost like the 50s when these two teams kept it up in the race for the best in the National League when they played in Brooklyn and Polo Grounds.

The Giants and the Dodgers look at these standings it’s the Giants and the Dodgers all over again. The fans at Dodgers Stadium are sick of the Giants winning championships every other year and their sick and tired of the Giants coming to Dodgers Stadium and beat LA and that’s what the Giants have done all season.

The Dodgers haven’t scored since April on the Giants at AT&T Park and they got shutout in all three games and then the Giants this past week went to LA and won two out of three and won the first two games the Giants nailed them by scores of 9-5 and 6-2. It’s a series like this that Giants fans love and the Dodgers fans despise.

The San Padres found out about the bats of Angel Pagan, Buster Posey and Brandon Crawford this past series at ATz&T and if Posey can get a good pitch to hit there’s telling what he can do. He’s a Mike Trout or a Miguel Cabrera type hitter he could get it going and it’ll be off to the races with Buster. Tuesday night Madison Bumgarner pitcher brilliantly only to lose 3-2 in 11 innings in the one loss to the Pads in this series.

It’s like after Mad Bum threw for 14 strikeouts and lost you have to ask “what’s going on here?” It’s a question now what the Giants are going to do in their rotation when starting pitcher Jake Peavy gets back. Ryann Vogelsong pitched himself a ball game on Wednesday night for the win and now with Nori Aoki out with the fractured fibula the Giants will be counting on the line up to keep getting the base knocks to keep them in ball games.

It’s very tight in the outfield right now it’s so strange that the first two guys they brought in are now being depended on because of all the injuries that the Giants have right now. The Giants are looking to Travis Ishikawa and Brandon Crawford for some extra hits in the long run Ishikawa has some great experience.

Jeremy Kahn is a San Francisco Giants beat writer for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to the podcast below