Just no deep-sixing hitters’ home funk

Giants pitchers now know how theirpredecessors felt in that memorable season of '02. That would be 1902. Not the World Series season of 2002. Monday was another day of minimum production for the Giants' offense, with Pablo Sandovalcollecting three of the team's four hits through eight innings. TheGiants "broke out" in the ninth withtwo more hits but fell 5-3 to the Padres at China Basin. For the first time since 1902, the Giants have failed to score morethan six runs in 38 straight home games their entire 2011 homeschedule to date. Those '02 Giants , the only other outfit with astreak like that in franchise history, finished 53 1/2 games out offirst place.