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Punchless Giants, Cain doomed by another rough fifth inning

Those who can stand only four innings of a baseball game before they lunge for the remote might think Matt Cain's comeback from two years of arm trouble is going swimmingly.

Teams are forced to play the fifth inning too, and in one of the bigger oddities of the young season Cain has allowed all 11 of his runs over his three starts in that frame.

Come the fifth inning, the story keeps going Giants' onetime No. 1 starter, as it did in Tuesday night's 3-0 loss to a Diamondbacks team that has become very comfy on the shores of McCovey Cove.