At least they tried?
The San Francisco Giants lost once again to the Boston Red Sox today, 6-2.
First of all, I’d like to apologize for incorrectly stating that this was a short series in my last two posts. Unfortunately I was mis-remembering the schedule. And also unfortunately, the Giants will be doing this again tomorrow.
Now on to the game itself. It had more excitement than yesterday’s game, I’ll give it that. Although that’s not exactly a high bar. The bar was literally “get on the board” and the Giants did that in the third inning with a solo home run from Tom Murphy.
Mike Yastrzemski was able to get in on the action in the fourth inning, in his grandfather’s home ball park. So that was nice. After Michael Conforto walked, Thairo Estrada doubled, and Yastrzemski knocked in Conforto with a single.
And that’s all they had in them today. While it was more than they had in them yesterday, it still was not enough. Kutter Crawford pitched a strong seven innings for the Red Sox, allowing just four hits and two runs with six strikeouts and two walks.
Whereas for the Giants, it was a bullpen game. And honestly, I could just stop there and you could fill in the rest of the details and probably be fairly accurate.
Erik Miller got things started and pitched a decent first inning, allowing a couple of walks and striking out one. Daulton Jefferies entered in the second and did alright, only walking one batter. Unfortunately, the third and fourth innings didn’t go quite as smoothly. Jefferies would allow four runs on five hits with three strikeouts and two walks in two and two thirds innings.
Taylor Rogers followed that up by allowing a run of his own in the bottom of the fifth, although he didn’t cash it in. Luke Jackson joins Erik Miller in the “didn’t give up any runs” club today, but even that’s questionable because he did allow Rogers’ run to score. So maybe It’s a club of one. Because Mitch White also gave up a run in the seventh inning.
Honestly, going back to what I said earlier, once you saw this was going to be a bullpen game, you really could have just taken a stab at what the outcome would be before it even started and it probably would have been pretty close to being right. Bullpen games are the shrug emoji and “At least you tried” cake from The Simpsons. Great if they go well, but that cake’s probably going in the trash.