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		Giants' slide continues By Jeremy Harness July 1, 2010
	In this photo taken Wednesday, June 30, 2010, San Francisco Giants catcher Bengie Molina, center, sits in the dugout with teammates Andres Torres, left, and Edgar Renteria, right, during the ninth inning of their baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in San Francisco. The Texas Rangers have acquired catcher Bengie Molina and cash from the San Francisco Giants for reliever Chris Ray and a minor league pitcher on Thursday, July 1, 2010. (AP Photo)
	There's some good news and some bad news that came out of Thursday's game at Denver's Coors Field. The bad news is that the Giants extended their losing streak to six games with their 7-3 loss to the Rockies on Thursday. Now with the good news: Tim Lincecum is scheduled to take the hill on Friday, the team's best chance of breaking the alarming cycle of bad play. After young Madison Bumgarner pitched well but lost last Saturday to the Boston Red Sox, he had another decent outing but took his second straight defeat after giving up four runs and nine hits over seven innings, the big hit coming off the bat of former A's prospect Carlos Gonzalez, who ripped a two-run homer in the first inning. The Giants tied the game in the second on Aaron Rowand's single that brought in a pair of runs, but Colorado pushed back ahead with a run in the fourth and fifth innings. In the sixth, newly-appointed everyday catcher Buster Posey cracked a solo homer off Colorado starter Aaron Cook to bring the Giants within a run, but the Rockies scored three more runs in the eighth off reliever Guillermo Mota to out the game out of reach.