San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Alex Wood pitches to the San Diego Padres line up in the bottom of the fifth inning at Petco Park in San Diego on Sunday, July 10, 2022. 

Giants Beat Up Padres in Game Four 12-0

By Barbara Mason

The San Francisco Giants (43-41) were apparently fed up with losing. They came roaring into Petco Park Sunday and plowed through the San Diego Padres (49-38) lineup with ease. They tied up the four game series 2-2 but most importantly they are playing lights up baseball as evidence by the two final games of this series. Lots of hitting with an 11-0 win for the Giants ending their road trip at San Diego’s Petco Park.

The Giants got on the scoreboard in the second inning and never looked back. Nine players in the starting lineup had hits. By the fourth inning the Giants were leading 8-0 and there wasn’t much the Padres could do to stop the assault.

Alex Wood had a great start going seven innings allowing three hits and eight strikeouts, in fact, he was unhittable for five innings. He had a no-hitter going into the sixth inning. The Giants gave up nothing to the Padres. Yunior Marte finished off San Diego in the eighth and ninth innings for the 12-0 win. He also allowed three hits and had four strikeouts.

What a follow-up to the brilliant show that Carlos Rodon put out there in game three. San Francisco has really shown some encouraging signs of completely turning this whole season around. It is only two games but it is certainly looking good for the Giants.

Wilmer Flores had an outstanding game with four hits two of them out of the park with runners on base. This is first time that the Giants have won consecutive games since June 16-17 in Pittsburgh.

The Giants offense was totally on task with 17 hits and walking four times. San Francisco sent three shots out of the yard two of them with a runner on base. It was a near perfect offensive defensive effort by the Giants.

Next up for San Francisco will be the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday with first pitch scheduled for 6:45 PM PT. Alex Cobb will take the mound for San Francisco. He comes in with an ERA of 4.74 with a 3-3 W-L. Arizona will send Merrill Kelly with a 7-5 W-L and a 3.42 ERA.