SAN FRANCISCO – With the Oracle Park crowd roaring after Dominic Smith lined a single to right and extended his MLB-best 15-game hit streak, San Francisco had runners at every station with one out in the sixth inning.

Mired in a three-game losing skid and trailing by a trio of runs, the Giants just needed one hit, one player ,to create a spark against the Padres.

Instead, as they have often done during a miserable post-All Star break stretch, the bats came up empty when it counted. Patrick Bailey and Heliot Ramos each popped up to end the threat.

San Francisco fell 5-1, the team’s fourth consecutive defeat, and 12th loss in its last 13 home games.

The Giants, who had 10 hits, were just 3 for 10 with a runner on second or third on Tuesday night, with the team also coming up empty with r

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