Jones on deck for call-up?

Is Ryder Jones an answer? The Giants’ prospect homered in three consecutive games with Triple-A Sacramento and continues to catch the attention of the team’s decision makers. His bat and the Giants’ nonstop hitting woes could prompt a promotion to the big leagues in the near future.

“He’s a guy I’m watching,” manager Bruce Bochy said. “He has what we don’t have a lot of, power.”

Jones, 23, swings left-handed and plays several positions. This season, he started 22 games at third base, 11 each at first base and left field, and two in right. He’s hitting .295 with a .393 on-base percentage, 10 homers and 30 RBIs.

The Giants are last in the majors in homers and have enough players struggling that Jones could easily find a spot somewhere. He was a secondround pick in 2013, the draft that produced Christian Arroyo.

Bumgarner’s sim game: Madison Bumgarner threw approximately 40 pitches in a simulated game in Arizona, the first time he has thrown to batters since his dirt-bike accident April 20, and Bochy said the lefty will pitch another in a couple of days.

“It went well,” said Bochy, adding that Bumgarner might need a third simulated game before he begins pitching in the minors.

Briefly: Bochy rested Brandon Crawford, Denard Span and Brandon Belt against lefty Kyle Freeland and started Kelby Tomlinson at shortstop, Gorkys Hernandez in

center field and Buster Posey, two days removed from an ankle injury, at first base . ... Giant-killer Nolan Arenado went 0-for-3 off Matt Cain and is 4-for-27 lifetime against the pitcher . ... The Giants’ run came on Hernandez’s single, which scored Nick Hundley, who bumped into Tony Wolters at the plate. Wolters was in Hundley’s path. The next half-inning, when Wolters came to the plate, the two catchers — teammates last year with the Rockies — fistbumped.