SAN JOSE — One more win in an elimination game was too much to ask from the San Jose Giants in this year’s California League playoffs.

The Giants were sept out of the best-of-five championship series by the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes with a 5-0 loss on Saturday night at Municipal Stadium. The Giants (72-69) had won their previous four elimination games during their postseason run.

All four of those games were decided in extra innings or on walk-off hits — and in one case, both. San Jose outlasted Stockton in 15 innings of Game 3 of the North Division’s mini-series, then rallied from a 2-0 series deficit to take three straight from Visalia to claim the division crown.

This time, however, the Giants weren’t able to pull it out.

“It was a special run, obviously,” Giants designated hitter Brian Ragira said. “It’s just tough when you get down by two games. We believed that we could pull it off a second time, but (the Quakes) were the better team in this series.”

San Jose was swept by a team that it went 6-1 against during the regular season.

“The postseason’s just a whole different monster,” Ragira said. “A team that gets on a roll can beat anyone.”

It was the second championship loss in three years for the six-time Cal League champs. Their last title was in 2010.

Giants starter Christian Jones (6-3) took the loss despite holding the Quakes hitless through four innings. The right-hander struck out eight, but left the game with one out in the fifth inning after surrendering back-to-back doubles that put San Jose behind 1-0.

It didn’t help that San Jose wasted prime scoring chances in three of the first four innings. Each time the Giants had two hits and put a runner on third, but left both runners stranded.

Right fielder Steven Duggar and second baseman Brandon Bednar led San Jose with two hits apiece.

Quakes first baseman Cody Bellinger was named the MVP of the Cal League championship series. The son of former San Jose Giant Clay Bellinger went 3-for-5 with a two-run homer, two doubles and three runs scored Saturday night.

“You never want to see a season end (with a loss),” Jones said. “It’s tough — we always seemed to have magic at the end of a game, and you think you’re going to come back somehow because you’ve done it so many times before. But when the other team has a five-run lead in a championship game, you don’t really expect to come back from that.”