Cain joins the cast of M*A*S*H.

There may be no place more heinous, more totally disgusting to Giants fans, than Denver's Coors Field. Friday's weather delay just extended the stay in a place no follower of the Orange and Black wants to stay even one millisecond longer than necessary.

"Dude, don't tell anyone but I just dropped the clutch." (AP Photo)

The Giants dropped a frustrating (and potentially very costly) 5-2 loss to the Rockies, stumbling in the same place where their previous 2016 slide began. And in an insidious karmic twist, a team already hampered by injuries suffered yet another.

Matt Cain, who was finally starting to look like the Matt Cain of old, instead he now looks like the Matt Cain of the past two years; injured. Cain didn't get out of the second inning thanks to the trendy injury of 2016, a hamstring. Angel Pagan is already on the DL because of a bad hammy, Hunter Pence been sidelined for a week with one, and now Cain comes up lame. As if the rotation wasn't thin enough. 

Add to the carnage Brandon Belt's ankle sprain from Wednesday and the line-up card is starting to look like a hospital admitting roster. The only things missing from MASH unit are Hawkeye and Trapper John.

It's a double guy shot looking at the possible franchise history to be made. The Giants had never in their storied history won 10 straight within the division. The streak thus ends at nine.

Cain left a scoreless game and turned maters over to Albert Suarez, who got little help. The Giants scored first and they scored last. In between there wasn't much to write home about as the Rockies dominated in what is San Francisco's official House of Horrors (sponsorships available).

Jarrett Parker reached on an error and scored on Suarez replay-reviewed fielder's choice grounder, giving the G-Men a short-lived 1-0 lead in the third. Then Suarez got doubled to death. Colorado answered back in the bottom of the third with a pair of runs thanks to doubles by Tony Wolters, Charlie Blackmon and Nolan Arenado, taking a 2-1 lead. Another pair of doubles in the fourth from Mark Reynolds and Trevor Story grew the Rockies' lead to 3-1.

It stayed that way until the bottom of the eighth George Kontos got spanked like he'd spent the evening at Helga's House of Pain.  The Rockies got RBI singles from Story and Wolters to make the lead 5-1.

The ninth would have been a lot more exciting had those two tallies not gone up on the board. San Francisco did get one run against Miguel Castro, but Jake McGee needed just two throws to sit down Kelby Tomlinson to draw the curtain.

Yep, Coors Field.

Rockies starter Tyler Chatwood choked the SF offense, allowing just one unearned run on four hits in seven innings of work.  It's starting to sound like a broken record (and some of you will have to ask your parents what a record is), but poor situational hitting again killed San Francisco (1-for-8 with RISP).

Nowhere was that more evident than in the fifth, when the Giants were just a bloop and a blast away. Jarrett Parker beat a shift with a double to left, but the would-be rally dies a quick death. Chatwood worked his way out of the inning on just seven pitches, and the ball never left the infield. Trevor Brown lined out before Suarez and Denard Span grounded out.

Right about now I bet you need some good news. Okay, here is goes: the Dodgers lost. That’s it. The rest of the night hurled, but we sleep with the knowledge that the Giants (30-20) still hold a 4 ½ game edge in the NL West.

Madison Bumgarner (6-2, 2.17 ERA) will try to right the ship on Saturday. MadBum is hot, winning his last five decisions. The Rockies send out Eddie Butler (2-2, 3.58). Butler beat the Giants with six shutout innings at AT&T earlier this month.

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