by Michael Duca

SAN FRANCISCO–It’s hard to feel positive after the Giants lost a 14 inning game on a walk off single by the Los Angeles Dodgers Adrian Gonzalez and once again another road loss this time at Dodgers Stadium. The Giants were going against a team that they’ve beaten nine out of 12. This is the last team that you want to give anything so they believe they’ve got any life at all.

You go 14 innings and the Giants cough up the game and it was just to the point that you were getting down in your bullpen and you can’t any outs. That’s not how it’s suppose to happen, it’s suppose to be the Dodgers bullpen that can’t get any outs and their bullpen just strangled the Giants on Monday night.

The Giants will have to play very desperate ball for the rest of the season on the other hand there’s 32 games left and if you subtract the Dodgers from that picture every other game they could play .500. The Giants could catch fire and they only play the division plus the A’s and Cincinnati. That’s the kind of schedule where you could really take off and make a run with the post season.

The Giants have to split these last two games with the Dodgers and realistically they have to be looking for eight innings of dominate performance from Giant pitcher Madison Bumgarner on Tuesday night. It’s a game where they not only need to win because Dodger pitcher Clay Kernshaw is going at home the next day.

The Giants really need a dominate performance from Bumgarner because they’ve exhausted the bullpen and it’s not know how much of your post season life your going to trust that you didn’t trust in August that your going to have in Chavez Ravine. As for the Giants recent acquisition from the Red Sox Alejandro De Aza who hit .292 for Boston. His role will be pinch hitting and helping be a defensive replacement.

Michael Duca does Giants podcasts weekly at http://www.sportsradioservice.com