SF Giants match season-long losing streak with heartbreaking loss vs. D-backs
PHOENIX — The Giants stood six outs away from snapping out of this terrible funk. But after an erratic performance by Dominic Leone and too many missed scoring opportunities, the skid extended to six games, matching a season-high.
With their 12th loss in the past 15 games, the Giants sit only one game over .500, at 40-39. With their second loss in two games to Arizona, they equaled their total number of defeats to the D-backs last season, when they went 17-2.“I think it’s fair to say we played fine baseball for a part of that game. I just don’t think that’s our standard,” said manager Gabe Kapler. “We need to be better at many different things. That is unequivocally true. We’re just not playing good enough baseball.
“Rojas made a crazy good play,” Kapler said. “A play that rarely is made. He bunted with two strikes against a hard-throwing reliever, which is a really difficult thing to do. He then became a pest on the bases and was taking his leads with a high level of confidence and some risk and showed a degree of fearlessness that caused us to respond to it by throwing over, making a visit, stepping off. Sometimes that can be distracting.
With Yermín Mercedes on second base in the seventh, Wynns lofted a fly ball down the line in left. Cooper Hummel, in pursuit, tried to make a sliding grab but the ball bounced off his glove with a sliver of his body in fair territory. The ball would have fallen foul had Hummel not touched it, but instead the play ended with Mercedes jogging home and Wynns standing on first base, after a successful challenge by manager Gabe Kapler.
“It doesn’t get any more frustrating than what’s transpired over the last 15 games,” Wood said. “That’s not who we are. But you come to places in the season, there’s usually a couple times where you have a choice to make. You can either pack it in and say this is who we are and this is who we’re going to be the rest of the way, or you come out and show some fight and turn this thing around. I think tonight was a culmination of everything coming to a head.
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