SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants’ authentic Metropolis Join jerseys had been one thing of an excellent luck appeal given they went 30-16 with the brilliant orange and white “creamsicle” threads. The remixed threads don’t have that standing fairly but.
Landen Roupp allowed one earned run over a career-high six innings and Hayden Birdsong adopted with three scoreless innings of reduction, however San Francisco was shut out for a second consecutive evening and misplaced to the Cincinnati Reds, 1-0, dropping its first collection of the yr.
Regardless of Roupp throwing the primary high quality begin of his profession, the Giants went 0-for-6 with runners in scoring place and Roupp obtained caught with the hard-luck loss because the Reds’ Nick Lodolo tossed six scoreless innings.
San Francisco was near plating a run when Heliot Ramos drove a line drive to the right-field warning observe within the backside of the fifth inning that will’ve simply scored Casey Schmitt, however Cincinnati’s Jake Fraley made a diving, over-the-shoulder catch to maintain San Francisco scoreless. Sam Huff led off the underside of the eighth with a single and was pinch-ran for by Christian Koss, however the miniature rally evaporated when Ramos hit right into a double play.
The Reds generated their lone run of the ballgame towards Roupp within the prime of the third when Spencer Steer scored on Jose Trevino’s groundout. Casey Schmitt, enjoying simply his third skilled recreation at first base, saved Roupp a run within the prime of the fifth inning when Trevino tried to execute the squeeze play with runners on the corners and one out, however Schmitt charged arduous and fired residence to Huff, who utilized the tag and denied a run.
Schmitt additionally recorded two hits on the plate, his first being a 111.4 mph double that was just under his career-high exit velocity of 111.6 mph.
