Giants Unable to Rally, Stay Winless After Break

NEW YORK — Bruce Bochy never gave much thought to letting Madison Bumgarner hit for himself Friday night at Yankee Stadium, noting that on a humid 92-degree night, the ace needed to conserve all his energy for the mound.The plan worked in one respect. Bumgarner did his job, but the position players failed over and over again with runners in scoring position and played sloppy defense, falling 3-2 at Yankee Stadium. They are winless in six games since the All-Star break.Through four innings, Giants hitters gave Bochy all kinds of different ways to feel pain. Masahiro Tanaka got through the first on just five pitches, and after the first two hitters of the second reached base, he managed to keep the Giants off the board.The first two hitters in the third reached, too, and Angel Pagan hit a liner to right that looked like it would score a run. But Carlos Beltran threw a seed to the plate and Gregor Blanco was tagged out after it was ruled he never touched the plate on a bang-bang play. Bochy challenged, but the call on the field was confirmed. Blanco appeared to get one finger over the plate, but it was impossible to tell if he actually touched it.In the fourth — you...