Over the past few weeks, it looked like a huge door opened up for the San Francisco Giants in the playoff race. The New York Mets were floundering, and the Giants have been playing much better baseball as of late — even taking care of business against good teams such as the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs. But their playoff hopes are dwindling by the second now that they've returned to playing poor baseball.

On Tuesday, the Giants lost yet another crucial game against another playoff hopeful in the Arizona Diamondbacks , this time suffering a 6-5 defeat courtesy of a walk-off infield single from Jordan Lawlar — giving San Francisco its fourth consecutive defeat and their seventh in the past 10 games.

Giants manager Bob Melvin couldn't do anything else but express his frustratio

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