Giants’ Ryder Jones trying to stay positive after freak injury

Rookie Ryder Jones sits in his San Francisco hotel room before he comes to the ballpark “thinking about how much this sucks” but trying to stay positive despite the fate that befell him in Milwaukee on Sunday.

Buster Posey is done for the year. Brandon Belt has recurring knee soreness that likely will require a cleanup operation after the season. So Jones, 24, was going to get a fair share of time at first base.

Then, on Sunday, he swung at a pitch, hit a foul ball and felt a jolt of pain in his left knee that put him on his back. He knew exactly what had happened because he did the same thing in 2015 in the California League. He had dislocated his left kneecap.