Joyless Journey: D-Backs on wrong side of history

SAN FRANCISCO – Occasionally, the Arizona players glanced up at the Oracle Park scoreboard in center field. It told a most familiar, gloomy story.

The Diamondbacks made dubious history, setting a major league record with their 23rd straight road loss in getting trounced by the San Francisco Giants 10-3 Thursday.

“It’s nothing we’re proud of,” manager Torey Lovullo said. “It’s been an extended period of time. It weighs on you. It’s heavy.”

The dejected D-backs trudged off the field and quietly made their way back to the visiting clubhouse following the final out, breaking a tie with the 1963 Mets and ’43 Philadelphia

Athletics for road futility.

Held to just a single through six innings – and that lone hit came off the bat of pitcher Zac Gallen – Arizona fell behind 6-0. The Diamondbacks went feebly, helpless to stop this runaway train of despair that began nearly two months ago.

“Obviously, the mood is unhappy,” Gallen said. “Guys are definitely not

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