The San Francisco Giants are coming off a particularly bad week of baseball.

The Giants should have had it easy, taking on two of Major League Baseball’s worst squads back-to-back (the Miami Marlins and Chicago White Sox). Instead, they went 1-5 in that stretch while struggling to hit, let alone score. Meanwhile, the pitching staff that had previously propped up the team while working out the hitting woes seemed to be falling apart at the worst possible time.

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Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow didn’t mince words during his weekly appearance on KNBR’s Murph and Markus morning show on Monday.

“When you become soloists because you’re trying to turn around the storm by yourself, it lingers. But it affects the other part of your game,” Krukow said, via SFGate. “This team is losing because it’s got its head so far up its rear end right now. The basepaths are ridiculous, the mistakes they’re making. We’re seeing pitchers balk in the middle of the motion. What is that all about?

“It is just epidemic. Their minds are not on the game. They’re thinking about their at-bats when they’re in the field. When they come out of the bullpen, they’re putting so much pressure on themselves to try and get this thing done. They’re trying to be perfect. They’re throwing their strikeout pitches first in the at-bat. They’re falling behind in the count. It’s just all crumbling. It’s all crumbling down.”

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Krukow, who has been calling Giants games since 1990, has seen his fair share of bad stretches for the team. He presumes that there were some closed-door discussions after this weekend, perhaps led by manager Bob Melvin.

“They have to pull their brain and they’ve got to divide it properly among the things that happen in this game,” Krukow said. “They have to concentrate on hitting, and when you’re not at bat, you have to be able to concentrate on defense. And when you’re on the bases, you have to concentrate on the bases.

“Right now, it’s just bad. But it can get a whole lot better, that’s the good news.”

Despite this rough patch, San Francisco is just 7.5 games back of the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers with a 45-39 record.