San Francisco Giant LaMonte Wade Jr (right) slide into third base safely advancing on a San Diego Padres throwing error. Padres third baseman Xavier Bogaerts is too late applying the tag at Petco Park in San Diego on Tue Apr 29, 2025 (AP News photo)

By Barbara Mason

The San Francisco Giants (19-11) got a slow start in their series with the San Diego Padres (18-11) losing game one in their two-game series. The Giants fell behind early in the first inning 3-0 putting themselves behind the eight ball from the get-go.

The Giants did rally in the sixth inning scoring 3 runs getting within one run 5-4 with 3 innings left in the game. San Francisco has been excelling in coming back from deficits but it didn’t happen Tuesday night.

Game recap: San Diego got going early scoring three runs in the first inning. Xander Bogaerts singled Manny Machado home for the first run of the game. The Padres would add to their lead in the first when a Jose Iglesias single drove both Gavin Sheets and Bogaerts home for a 3-0 lead.

San Francisco did not get on the board until the fourth inning when Willy Adames hit a 399 foot long ball. The Giants brief rally came to an end when the Padres struck again scoring 2 more runs in the fourth taking a 5-1 lead. Luis Arrez hit a sacrifice fly bringing Jason Heyward home followed by a Manny Machado single driving in Elias Diaz.

San Francisco needed to answer before this game got out of control and that is exactly what they did in the sixth inning very nearly tying up this game. It was a three run inning for the Giants that started with a Jung Hoo Lee single driving Willy Adames home. San Francisco would add a couple more runs when LaMonte Wade Jr. doubled and Lee and Heliot Ramos both scored on an error. Trailing by a single run 5-4, the Giants were back in the game.

San Diego extended their lead in the seventh inning courtesy of a Xander Bogaerts home run with Gavin Sheets on base pushing their lead back out to 7-4. Going into the eighth inning the Giants were running out of time. Jung Hoo Lee flied out, and both Matt Chapman and Wilmer Flores struck out. San Francisco was three outs away from losing game one in this series.

Giant’s pitcher Lou Trivino breezed through the bottom of the eighth inning and San Francisco had one final inning to at least score three runs to tie, a tall order. San Diego closer Robert Suarez came into the game looking to finish off the Giants. Ramos flied out, Wade Jr. popped out to third and it was up to Patrick Bailey to try to extend the ninth inning. He grounded out and that was the ball game 7-4 in favor of San Diego winning the first game of this two game series. The Giants had gone out quietly in the eighth and ninth innings.

San Francisco starter Logan Webb had a rough first inning giving up three runs settling down in the second and third innings but gave up two more runs in the fourth. He went five innings allowing nine hits and five runs with six strikeouts.

The Giants finished the game with seven hits. The Padres had 11 hits and San Francisco just couldn’t keep up with them. The Padres who had been struggling offensively lately turned that all around in this game stringing hits together.

Game notes: The Giants started their week off taking on the Padres (18-11) in a short two-game series for Tuesday and Wednesday. The Giants came into Tuesday night’s game after winning their series over the weekend with the Texas Rangers.

The Padres had a rough outing in their last series losing to the Tampa Bay Rays in a sweep. The Giants are currently tied with the Los Angeles Dodgers in first place with the Padres in third. The Padres will be looking to get back on the winning track after getting off to a pretty good start on the season.

The Giants have had a hot start to the season as well excelling in a number of come from behind wins. Last season they were leaving far too many runners stranded which has not been the case this year. They have their eye on sole possession of first place in the National League West. Logan Webb got touched up going five innings, allowing nine hits and five runs. For the Padres starter Nick Pivetta 5.1 innings, five hits and three earned runs.

Game two in this series is scheduled for an early first pitch at 1:10 PM on Wednesday. Landen Roupp will take the mound for San Francisco. He has a 2-1 win/loss record with a 4.56 ERA. Probable pitcher for San Diego is Michael King who comes into this game with a 3-1 win/loss record and a 2.18 ERA.