SF Giants embarrassed by Dodgers in worst loss of season
LOS ANGELES A night worth forgetting Landen Roupp recorded five outs and allowed six runs turning in the shortest start of his career Shohei Ohtani hit the th and th home runs of his career Clayton Kershaw turned back the clock and pitched seven shutout innings The upshot was the Giants worst loss of the season an - blowout at the hands of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night that knocked them back down to second place in the NL West Before a ridiculous ninth inning San Francisco was looking at its worst margin of defeat this season With Los Angeles leading - Dodgers manager Dave Roberts sent out position sportsman Enrique Hern ndez to pitch the top of the ninth Hern ndez making his ninth career pitching appearance recorded his first career strikeout by freezing Christian Koss with an mph fastball after two eephus pitches electrifying both his dugout and Dodger Stadium But after the strikeout Hern ndez allowed a grand slam to Casey Schmitt his second home run in as countless days and couldn t record the championship s final out necessitating Roberts insert Anthony Banda a real pitcher Banda did what Hern ndez could not finish the encounter He got Jung Hoo Lee to ground out and the ballgame was over This loss marks only the third time this year that San Francisco has lost a competition by at least five runs the other two defeats being on April against the Milwaukee Brewers - and May against the Chicago Cubs - In those two losses though the Giants were competitive for most of of the battle before things snowballed Saturday though was a wire-to-wire defeat Spencer Bivens did a fine job of eating innings to save the bullpen by allowing one run over a season-high innings Tristan Beck handled the sixth and seventh allowing a pair of homers to Ohtani and Teoscar Hern ndez With San Francisco trailing - heading into the bottom of the eighth manager Bob Melvin sent out backup catcher Logan Porter to pitch the eighth inning Porter the second position player to pitch for the Giants this season allowed a solo homer to Miguel Rojas Roupp began his evening by allowing a solo home run to Ohtani a swing by the three-time MVP that put the Giants in an early - deficit Ohtani s solo shot was the extent of the Dodgers offense in the first inning but the following frame saw Los Angeles post a true crooked number Related Articles SF Giants Verlander throws latest bullpen could return during homestand Schmitt powers SF Giants to win over Dodgers with first career grand slam SF Giants Chapman on schedule to begin rehab next week Kurtenbach The SF Giants and Dodgers fighting for the NL West lead That s next-level Buster Magic SF Giants see seven-game win streak snapped in ninth against Rockies The right-hander began his second inning with back-to-back walks Andy Pages doubled the Dodgers lead to - with an RBI single then former Giant Michael Conforto drove in a run of his own with an RBI double to make the lead - Roupp recorded the first out of the second when Hyeseong Kim lined out but Mookie Betts drove in two runs with a double after the Giants decided to intentionally walk Ohtani Roupp walked Freddie Freeman allowed a sacrifice fly to Will Smith and his night was over
