LOS ANGELES — An evening price forgetting.
Landen Roupp recorded 5 outs and allowed six runs, turning within the shortest ever begin. Shohei Ohtani hit the 249th and 250th house runs of his profession. Clayton Kershaw turned again the clock and pitched seven shutout innings. The end result was the Giants’ worst lack of the season, an 11-5 blowout by the hands of the Los Angeles Dodgers that knocked them all the way down to second place within the NL West.
“I just don’t think I had anything working for me,” Roupp mentioned. “I just could not find the zone with really anything, and then when I did, it got hit hard. I take full responsibility for the game tonight. You can’t expect the offense to come out swinging after that kind of start. Just have to regroup and be better next time.”
Earlier than a ridiculous ninth inning, San Francisco was its worst margin of defeat this 12 months.
With Los Angeles main 11-0, Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts despatched out place participant Enrique Hernández to pitch the sport’s closing body. Supervisor Bob Melvin did the identical within the earlier half inning by handing the underside of the eighth to backup catcher Logan Porter, the extra typical time to deploy a place participant to pitch.
Hernández, making his ninth profession pitching look, recorded his first profession strikeout by freezing Christian Koss with an 86.9 mph fastball after two “eephus” pitches. The remaining followers Dodger Stadium erupted in assist of the fan favourite.
Banda did what Hernández couldn’t: end the sport. He bought Jung Hoo Lee to floor out, and the ballgame was over. It wasn’t the Giants’ worst loss by margin of defeat, however the sport’s first eight innings painted a extra applicable image than the ultimate rating.
“I don’t run that. They do what they do,” mentioned supervisor Bob Melvin. “I pitched a position player too, but I’ve never done it in an up game.”
This loss marks solely the third time this 12 months that San Francisco has misplaced a sport by at the very least 5 runs, the opposite two defeats being on April 22 in opposition to the Milwaukee Brewers (11-3) and Might 5 in opposition to the Chicago Cubs (9-2). In these two losses, although, the Giants have been aggressive for a lot of the sport earlier than issues snowballed.
Saturday, although, was a wire-to-wire defeat.
With San Francisco trailing 10-0 heading into the underside of the eighth, supervisor Bob Melvin despatched out backup catcher Logan Porter to pitch the eighth inning. Porter, the second place participant to pitch for the Giants this season, allowed a solo homer to Miguel Rojas.
Roupp started his night by permitting a solo house run to Ohtani, a swing by the three-time MVP that put the Giants in an early 1-0 deficit. Ohtani’s solo shot was the extent of the Dodgers’ offense within the first inning, however the next body noticed Los Angeles submit a real crooked quantity.
The precise-hander started his second inning with back-to-back walks. Andy Pages doubled the Dodgers’ result in 2-0 with an RBI single, then former Big Michael Conforto drove in a run of his personal with an RBI double to make the lead 3-0.
Roupp recorded the primary out of the second when Hyeseong Kim lined out, however Mookie Betts drove in two runs with a double after the Giants determined to deliberately stroll Ohtani. Roupp walked Freddie Freeman, allowed a sacrifice fly to Will Smith and his night time was over with the Giants trailing 6-0.
“I’ve been throwing well. Tonight was definitely a rough one, but we’ll get back to it and get back to work,” mentioned Roupp, who had a 1.88 ERA in his final begins coming into play. “We’ll get back to work midweek in my bullpen and figure out what I was doing wrong and come back better.”
With Roupp failing to finish two innings, Melvin referred to as upon right-hander Spencer Bivens to eat innings and save the bullpen. Bivens obliged, permitting one run over a season-high 3 1/3 innings.
“He’s done stuff like that for us since he’s gotten here. … I was really even going to take him out an inning early and he said, ‘I’ve got whatever you need,’ so he went out there for an extra inning,” Melvin mentioned. “That’s just kind of who Spencer is.”
With a wholesome lead, Kershaw turned in a classic outing. For Kershaw, it was his first time finishing seven innings since June 20, 2023. Kershaw trimmed his profession ERA in opposition to the Giants to a good 2.00 over 61 video games (59 begins), the bottom of any Nationwide League opponent.
“He had a good slider today. Probably threw a few more curveballs than he normally throws, but got ahead with the fastball,” Melvin mentioned. “We didn’t have much for him. Weird game.”
Initially Printed: June 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM PDT
