NL West

San Francisco Giants pitcher Jake Peavy hit a home run off Cincinnati Reds pitcher Collin Balester during the fourth inning of Wednesday's game, becoming the fifth different Giants pitcher to homer this season, which ties an MLB record, per MLB Stat

There was a time when Yasiel Puig was the hot topic du jour on a seemingly, um, jourly basis. That went double during October, a month when Puig's every action was best observed through a microscope. And the more subatomic, the better.

But this year? Not as much. And the way things are looking now, it's time to wonder if we'll even be discussing Puig at all come the postseason.

The San Francisco Giants' chances of making the postseason are slim enough as is, and they won't improve with news of an injury to Joe Panik.

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If Zack Greinke hasn't cleared space in his trophy case yet, he'd better get busy. Because, while the race for the National League Cy Young Award isn't over, the Los Angeles Dodgers' right-hander looks more like the prohibitive front-runner with each superlative start.

OK, now we can stick a fork in the San Francisco Giants.

Tim Lincecum was never supposed to last this long. But he was never supposed to go away so soon.

He was too small and too funky, and he was never going to endure. Then he was a two-time Cy Young winner and a World Series champion, and he was going to be a San Francisco Giant forever.

The San Francisco Giants announced Tim Lincecum will miss the remainder of the 2015 season after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his left hip, but the team hasn't ruled out re-signing the impending free agent as his contract gets set to expire. 

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San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum's season is over after undergoing surgery to repair a nagging hip injury. 

John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle confirmed the news Thursday. 

The Giants later released a statement on the news:

Major League Baseball's richest somehow got even richer Thursday, as the Los Angeles Dodgers called up shortstop Corey Seager, one of the top prospects in the sport.

Jon Heyman of CBS Sports reported the news.

There aren't many miles between San Francisco and Los Angeles, but right now the defending champion Giants must feel like they traveled a long way just to get punched in the gut.

The only good news, really, is that the Giants are only reeling from a staggering blow. Not a killing blow.