Ever-widening gap becoming a chasm;CUBS 7, GIANTS 0;Lincecum, again unsupported, rocked by HRs

The Cubs came to town for a three-game series that amounts to anappetizer for The Three-Game Series. The first-place Diamondbacks, riding a seven-game winningstreak, will be at China Basin this weekend, and the Giants were hoping to cut thedeficit before the arrival, get within striking distance to do somedamage to the D'backs. However, the gap now is five games. As the Diamondbacks werespanking the Rockies 5-1 Monday night, Tim Lincecum was gettingknocked around in a rare August letdown. He surrendered three homeruns for the first time in his career, and the offense-deprived Giants lost 7-0.