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Giants bring road woes home, lose to Reds 7-5
Giants bring road woes home, lose to Reds 7-5
Giants bring road woes home, lose to Reds 7-5
Brandon Belt took a lot of blame for the Giants’ 1-7 trip after the All-Star Game. It was more of a team meltdown than anything individual, but it was a noble gesture by someone who went 2-for-33.
The Giants returned home to face the Reds Monday night and lost again 7-5 - their lead over the Dodgers dwindling to 2 ½ games for the first time since May 18 -- but Belt had no more reason to feel guilty.
He surpassed his output for the three-city, eight-game trip. He singled and homered in his first two at-bats and singled again in the ninth, his first three-hit game since June 1.
But a problem that plagued the pitching staff in San Diego, Boston and New York carried over to the homestand opener. Jake Peavy surrendered three home runs, and the Giants’ staff has given up 19 in nine games since the All-Star break, 16 by the starters.
Peavy cruised through three hitless innings but lost his momentum in the fourth, issuing two costly walks that were each followed by homers, one by Jay Bruce (caught by a fan in a Giants jersey who reached over the right-field wall) and one by Eugenio Suarez.
Bruce homered again in the sixth, ending Peavy’s night. Peavy has surrendered 12 hits in two starts against the Reds this season — seven homers.
“That’s just the way things have been going for the San Francisco Giants since the break,” said Peavy, noting he gave up only four hits, just one that wasn’t a homer. “Bizarre things have happened. It’s obviously been frustrating in the second half. As disappointing as it was, the boys battled back.”
Ex-Giant Adam Duvall nearly homered, too. The tale of the tape on the ball he hit in the second inning was the longest of the night, but he sent it to right-center field, and Jarrett Parker caught it a few feet in front of the 421-foot sign.
Peavy gave up five homers in two games since the break, four from the stretch, and plans to work on his mechanics from the stretch between starts.
“For some reason, I went away from what was successful there in those first few innings,” he said.
Another problem on the trip was hitting with runners in scoring position. They were 9-for-72, a pitiful .125 average. Their first two attempts Monday failed, Angel Pagan and Parker stranding Denard Span at second after Span doubled to begin the first inning.
But Buster Posey made the crowd come alive with his two-out, opposite-field single that scored Span.
It was the Giants’ lone hit in six at-bats with runners in scoring position. They hit better without runners in scoring position, evidenced by Belt’s two-run homer in the fourth and Pagan’s two-run shot in the fifth, which gave the Giants a 5-4 lead. Both followed leadoff walks from Anthony DeSclafani.
Belt batted third on the trip, but manager Bruce Bochy bumped him to sixth Monday and batted Parker third.
Because DeSclafani has far better numbers against right-handed batters, Bochy started Parker instead of Mac Williamson, who was one of the bright spots on the trip, going 8-for-18 with four extra-base hits. Williamson entered in the top of the eighth, striking out in the bottom half.
Bochy plans to start Williamson on Tuesday and keep Belt sixth in the lineup. Belt worked on getting his timing back and exercising
The Giants trailed 6-5 in the ninth until the Reds executed a perfect suicide squeeze to add a run. Billy Hamilton bunted, and Suarez scored easily. It was the third hit of the inning given up by Hunter Strickland.
After Belt singled to open the bottom of the ninth, Grant Green, Ramiro Pena and Trevor Brown made the game’s final three outs.
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