Brandon Crawford News

When she heard Angel Villalona would be back with the San Jose Giants this season, Donna Musgrave didn't wait to be asked.

Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun remains fourth in the balloting among National League outfielders according to the voting totals released by Major League Baseball today.

If there's one word that can be used to describe the San Francisco Giants season thus far, it's frustration.

Much like their team's situation in the National League West, three Giants find themselves in tight races in the latest All-Star Game fan balloting update, announced Sunday.

Freddie Freeman singled three times and drove in one run, Julio Teheran pitched six innings and the Atlanta Braves beat the San Francisco Giants 3-0 on Sunday night.

After a pretty painful loss in Atlanta yesterday, Tim Lincecum looks to get the Giants back on the winning side of things, giving them both a winning road trip , and a winning record in June .

He may pitch OK on Monday night at home against the Padres. He does pretty well at home, but teams routinely beat his brains out on the road.

Over his last four starts, Fister has been scored upon in a total of three innings.

The Atlanta Braves scored twice off Sergio Romo with one out in the ninth inning to come from behind and beat the Giants 6-5 Saturday, robbing San Francisco of a chance to secure its first winning multicity road trip of the season.

After his latest strong start, Matt Cain said it was time for the Giants starters to feed off each other.

Because he was in a slump last June, Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford made some adjustments to his approach at the plate.

He extended his career-best 15-game hitting streak and during the stretch is hitting .404 with four doubles, two home runs, 11 RBI and four walks.

There will be games where the Giants need a run, just a run, and they'll claw and scrape and beg for that run, and they won't get it.

A year to the day after throwing a perfect game against Houston, Cain was nearly flawless again.

The patchwork lineup hammered the Pittsburgh Pirates in Thursday's 10-0 win, and Cain, pitching on the anniversary of the first perfect game in franchise history, took a no-hitter into the fifth and settled for 6 2/3 shutout innings.

Matt Cain allowed two hits over 6 2-3 innings and the San Francisco Giants pounded the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-0 on Thursday night.

And, while pitching woes remain the primary source of concern for the defending champs by the bay, the Giants will need to make adjustments to their batting order moving forward.

San Francisco Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro was hit on the left hand with a pitch in Tuesday night's embarrassing loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates , immediately leading Giants observers to fear the worst and assume that he would suffer a fate similar to starter Ryan Vogelsong and will miss at least two months.

With the 2013 All-Star Game just over a month away, the San Francisco Giants are poised to make an impact for the second consecutive year.

You could conclude that Gerrit Cole and Brandon Crawford are connected at the UCLA hip bone.