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Giants give up 5 runs, still lose

DENVER - A normal baseball game was played at Coors Field on Saturday.

Normal, as in not 10-9 or 10-8, Thursday’s and Friday’s scores.

Normal, as in 5-1, Rockies over the Giants.

Of course Rockies over the Giants, who took their fifth straight loss and 13th in 17 games.

This did not have the makings of a pitchers’ duel, not after the Giants surrendered 20 runs the previous two games and Matt Cain posted a 7.13 ERA over his previous eight starts.

But Cain, who had struggled mightily on the road, did what Matt Moore and Jeff Samardzija didn’t do.