Uh, guys? It, uh...it happened again.

Maybe the San Francisco Giants should just stop playing sixth innings. Just skip right over it, like hotels and office buildings skip over that perilous 13th floor. Would Bud Selig let something like that happen? Is there a phone call to the Commissioner's Office that needs to be made?

In Game 3 of the World Series Friday night, the dreaded sixth inning reared its ugly head once again for San Francisco, as starter Jim Sannes did a terrific breakdown of the Giants' sixth-inning woes after Wednesday night's Game 2 loss in which San Francisco gave up five runs in the sixth, after manager Bruce Bochy left starter this piece by Grantland's Jonah Keri also noted the Giants' struggles with the sixth inning all season, in which batters hit .270/.330/.426 against them in that frame.

Why is this happening? There are two reasons.

First, when you have less-than-elite starting pitching, those pitchers typically run into trouble the more times a hitter sees them. At around the sixth inning, teams begin moving through their order for the third time, and when you have starters like Hudson, Peavy and #TheNextBigThing @SamsungMobileUS https://t.co/YKoLJ3i74r

— MLB (@MLB) October 25, 2014

Hudson would coax a groundout from #DFAPosey RT @BillShaikin: Posey, World Series: 2 for 13 (.154); postseason: 0 extra-base hits in 56 AB (.268 slugging percentage).#SFGiants

— Jacob Fagan (@jacobfagan) October 25, 2014

And unlike Bruce Bochy's relievers, Ned Yost's Kelvin Herrera and the rest of his 'pen mates shut the door and held the lead.

Brandon Finnegan, who became the first baseball player ever to pitch in the College World Series and the MLB World Series in the same season, preceded Wade Davis and Derek Holland in finishing out the last three innings in the manner we've come to expect from the Kansas City bullpen, and the citizens of San Francisco went home crestfallen.

Game 3 was, of course, a crucial game. The team that wins Game 3, when the series is tied 1-1, has gone on to win the Series 66.1% of the time, including 4 of the last 5 and 11 of the last 13. Oddly, the road team has had the upper hand in situations like this, now 31-26, having won 7 of the last 10.

And after having made the playoffs as a wild card, the Royals are now 10-1 in this postseason. They currently have a 60.53% chance of taking the series according to our metrics. Sure, we all expected this.

So now, it's onto Game 4 and a virtual must-win game for San Francisco at home in which Bumgarner has to be brought back on short rest. As of this writing, Vogelsong was the expected starter for Game 4, although the Giants had kicked around the idea of starting Madison on short rest, something he's never done before.

If ever there was a time to try it, that time is now. Jason Vargas will start for Kansas City.

Hopefully for the Giants, they can just skip the sixth inning on Saturday night.