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By Jeremy Harness

Slowly but surely, the chances of sneaking into the postseason in the National League have slipped away for the Giants. The back-to-back losses to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday and Tuesday seemed to solidify that fact.

At this point, the Giants have decided that it’s about time to give their young prospects a taste of the major leagues, and to see what they can do going forward.

On Tuesday, the Giants released second baseman Scooter Gennett, whom they had acquired at the trade deadline but, other than a brief road trip to Colorado, never really got going. He hit only .234 during a stint that lasted slightly less than a month.

In the process, the team called up right-handed reliever Tyler Rogers, a 28-year old who has a side-winding delivery that features his knuckles coming within inches of scraping the mound, from Triple-A Sacramento.

Coming to Oracle Park with him is infielder Mauricio Dubon, whom the Giants have high hopes for and also grew up a huge Giants fan. He originally came to the Giants organization days before the deadline from Milwaukee when starter Drew Pomeranz and reliever Ray Black were dealt to the Brewers.

He is expected to get plenty of starts at second base and will share time with emerging infielder Donovan Solano, who can also play shortstop to spell Brandon Crawford.

The Giants are now 65-67 and are now in third place in the National League West, and they have slipped to six games back in the wild-card race.

The Giants will host the San Diego Padres, a team that has long forgotten about the postseason despite high expectations going into the 2019 season, for a four-game series that starts tomorrow night.