August Turning Into House Of Horrors For The San Francisco Giants

At the beginning of August, the Giants trailed the Padres by one game and led the Wild Card race.

They came off a month where they won 20 of their 28 games. They led the majors in runs scored.

But since then they are 7-8 and have fallen to five games back in the division. Now they are on the outside looking in on the playoff picture.

What happened? Three things.

Power outage:

Since the Giants entered the month of August, the offense has sputtered along with little consistency (unless you count consistently bad).

In their 15 games, they have scored a total of 54 runs. That is good for 3.6 runs per game.

One of those gam...

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