LOS ANGELES — A week ago exactly, the Giants scored four runs in the first against Clayton Kershaw in what ended up being his final start at Oracle Park. On Tuesday in Phoenix, the Giants scored four runs in the first. On Saturday in Los Angeles, the Giants scored four runs in the first — three being the product of Bryce Eldridge’s first career hit.

For the third time in the last eight days, the Giants (76-79) began a ballgame with a crooked number. For the third time in the last eight days, the Giants watched an early lead slip away and ended a day in defeat, the latest being a 7-5 loss as the Dodgers clobbered four homers.

Eldridge, 20, hadn’t been rewarded for the hard contact he made in his first three games in the majors. In his third career plate appearance, he smashed a 409-foot,

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