Photo courtesy of San Francisco Giants. Patrick Bailey gets his first career hit in the MLB against the Marlins on May 20th, 2023.

By Titus Wilkinson (@TitusWisme)

SAN FRANCISCO- The Giants offense went cold in the second game of their series against the Marlins losing by a final of 1-0.

Starting in this one for the Giants was Logan Webb sporting a 3-5 record with a 3.20 ERA. While for the Marlins Braxton Garret was on the bump with a 1-2 record and 5.40 ERA.

Things got off to an exciting start in the first inning as Thairo Estrada leading off got a base hit setting the Giants up early for offense. Estrada also stole a base but SF could not capitalize as the Marlins got out of the inning unscathed.

After that first inning Garret went on an absolute tear not allowing another hit until he was relieved in the seventh inning. On top of that Garret at one point sat down 15-straight Giants batters before that streak was broken up by catchers interference in the seventh inning.

Webb also pitched a great one as he threw his sixth-consecutive quality start of the season in this game. In the seventh Webb was relieved as according to manager Gabe Kapler he was dealing with some “lower back tightness.” Kapler did not elaborate any further.

In the eighth with Tyler Rodgers now pitching for the Giants J.D. Davis would commit a costly error that let Garret Hampson get on base. Xavier Edwards then advanced him to second on a sacrifice bunt and finally Jon Berti sent him home on a line drive single to right field.

Michael Conforto on that hit attempted to make a throw home but Patrick Bailey could not come up with the ball as Hampson came in safe. Rogers did finish the inning and did not allow another hit as he cleaned up nicely the rest of the inning.

The bottom of the eight also had some excitement as Patrick Bailey got his first career MLB hit. Bryce Johnson followed that up with a single of his own meaning the Giants had two on with two outs. Estrada came up but grounded out leaving two on base and setting up for a big bottom of the ninth for the white-and-orange.

The top of the ninth saw the Giants commit another error as on a throw to first Lamonte Wade Jr. dropped a ball thrown to him. The play had to be reviewed as originally Bryan De La Cruz who got the hit was called out but after the review they reversed the call meaning Cruz was safe.

Despite the error Camilo Doval pitched a great rest of the inning striking out two batters giving the Giants a great chance to respond in the bottom of the inning.

With Dylan Floro to close things out for the Marlins he did just that striking out both Conforto and Davis giving the Marlins the victory 1-0.

“With respect to the way we swung the bat I think we could do a better job than we did collectively as a team today,” manager Gabe Kapler said after the game.

It was a frustrating game for the Giants who played great defensively coming up with two double plays against the Marlins. However, the bats could not get anything going leaving four on base and only mustering three hits.

The Giants will play the third and final game of their home series against the Marlins at 1:05 p.m. were they hope to walk away with the series victory.