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Marcus McConico - Missed chances sinks Giants below .500 mark. The only team trailing them in the standings is the Los Angeles Dodgers, who completed a sweep of the Giants at home for the first time since April 2009.

This season the Giants are starting off slow, player´s they were counting on, are being place on the disabled list or just not performing as well, as expected. Injuries to seemingly replaceable role players have ended up exposing a lack of depth that the Giants wish they had. Because it seems like whenever the Giants plug up one of their leaks this year, a different one springs open. The injuries don't help and players have been less than stellar and under performed to say the least.

So as the season goes on and the Giants plagued with injuries. They have to use various call-ups like George Kontos with a 5.52 ERA, what happened to that guy? Then there´s Mike Kickham who I believe didn't pitch bad against L.A., but still ended up with five earned runs on his record after leaving with one out in the sixth. The team is two games below .500 with the Rockies, Reds and the Dodger coming up. July may be the month the San Francisco Giants turn things around.

On the surface its not that bad, a horrible May gets turned up a little with there best performing month, June. Although past seasons memories at this point is all but lost, but doesn't mean it can't be found, If they can continue to improve while the rest of the team nurses itself back to health, the Giants will be there at the end. The NL West remains up for grabs, and all they have to do is hang around before making a push to close it out.