by Michael Duca

SAN FRANCISCO–Right now the Giants are not scoring, it’s kind of hard to win if you don’t score they got awfully good pitching from Chris Heston on Monday night in spite of losing their seventh straight game at AT&T Park. All things being equal, they put two guys on in the first inning and they got two double play balls and they didn’t complete one of the double plays because Hester dropped the ball.

Hestor just kind of sailed through the middle innings there’s nothing wrong with the Giants pitching right per say but the bullpen is having a rough go with an ERA was over six. Giants reliever Santiago Casilla is not right. The Giants don’t know what’s missing there. Casilla came in Monday night against the Mets with runners on second and third and nobody out and held the score at zero.

The Mets catcher Johnny Monell in the top of the ninth who had been a minor leaguer for about 100 years for the Giants goes down on two strikes immediately on two breaking pitches and Casilla can’t throw his fast ball for a strike. Throws three pitches out of the zone and runs up a 3-2 count he has to come in with something and throws a nothing fast ball a 100 MPH fastball that was dead straight lower half of the zone Monell turned on it hits it down the line in right field for two RBIs and that was basically your ball game.

There is only so far you can go with spare parts and you have to remember when your missing Hunter Pence, Nori Aoki, and to be honest when your practically missing Angel Pagan the guy has 300 at bats and no home runs this year. Pagan’s defense has been miserable for the last couple of weeks. He’s been playing like he’s a secret agent for the Dodgers.

If your promoting your bench players into your starting line up A. Your starting line up isn’t as strong as it was. B. You got no where to go and your bench is now not there, because your bench is starting players like Ryan Lollis (no hits, one stolen base in five ball games), that’s not going to be a recipe for success for the course of the season. You might be able to get away with it for a little while but they’ve been without Pence for half the season, they’ve been without an effective Pagan for the better part of a third of a season, their going to miss a quarter of a season from Aoki about 30 plus games.

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