San Francisco Giants’ Luis Matos, middle, and Bryce Johnson, right, watch from the dugout during the eighth inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Thu Jun 22, 2023 (AP News photo)

By Troy Ewers

SAN FRANCISCO–The San Francisco Giants (42-33) looked to complete a four game sweep against the San Diego Padres (36-39) and extend their winning streak to 11 games it was not to be as the Padres had their hitting shoes on snapping San Francisco’s ten game win streak at Oracle Park Thursday 10-0.

Thursday’s game by the bay was beautiful with a 61 degree sunny day as the backdrop with a huge crowd of 38,638 people, but the final score was ugly for the orange and black. Blake Snell (San Diego) and Alex Wood (San Francisco) were on the mound for their respective clubs and to say they had polar opposite outings would be an understatement.

Alex Wood started this game in the first inning by walking the Padres leadoff batter Ha-Seong Kim and then with one out walking Juan Soto. After Manny Machado lined out, with two outs and two men on, Gary Sanchez set the tone with a theee run home run that hurt the confidence of Wood instantly, but it wouldn’t be the only three run bomb Alex Wood would watch go into the stands today.

In the third inning Machado hit the second three run homer which scored Soto and Tatis Jr. making the game 6-0 for San Diego. After the top of the third Wood’s day was over and a pitching change was made. On the opposite end of the spectrum Padre starter Blake Snell was a stone cold stunner, pitching six innings allowing only three hits and throwing 11 strikeouts.

Two of the three Giants hits Snell allowed were by Patrick Bailey, but no offense occurred other than these three hits, not even a walk for the Giants. The scoring wouldn’t stop for the Padres. In the fourth inning Kim hit a homerun with one out on Jakob Junis’s first pitch of the game (Junis replaced Wood) making the score 7-0 and in the fifth inning.

San Diego put the dagger in the heart with a three run rally off four hits from Machado, Sanchez, Jake Cronenworth, and Nelson Cruz, which gave us our . The next four innings would go by quicker than a blink of an eye where each team basically would go down fairly quickly, the Giants ending the game with four straight 1-2-3 innings and by the end of the eighth innings Giants fans wanted to beat the traffic and started popping out of their seats.

Blake Snell was awarded the win (4-6) and Wood would gain a loss (2-2), but the Giants can’t dwell on this loss even for one day, because the next game is the beginning of a three game series with the NL West division leaders, the Arizona Diamondbacks and that game is Friday night.

On the mound for the Giants will be Logan Webb (6-6 ERA 3.11) and he will face Arizona’s Zach Davies (1-3 ERA 7.11) for a 6:45pm PT first pitch at Oracle. For the Giants this next series can really propel them to the top of the division, but the depth of this current roster seems to be in question as the injury bug hits key players in this home stretch.