Thursday BP: We might not see Marco Luciano for a while

Photo by Andy Kuno/San Francisco Giants/Getty ImagesMarco Luciano had about as tough of a game as he could have had on Wednesday, in the San Francisco Giants loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. No, the ninth-inning errors that have plagued him in recent games were nowhere to be found, but only because he wasn’t in the game in the ninth inning.

Luciano officially hit 0-1, though I’d contest that he should have been awarded a hit when he reached safely in the first inning on what was scored as an error. And in the top of the third inning, he spent too long shuffling on a routine ground ball, ultimately throwing to first too late to retire the runner (which, ironically, was scored as a hit when…