Category: San Francisco Giants

The Tampa Bay Rays Luke Raley makes for home plate for a inside the park home run in the top of the sixth inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco against the San Francisco Giants on Wed Aug 16, 2023 (AP News photo)

On the Giants podcast with Michael:

#1 The Tampa Bay Rays Luke Raley pinched hit into Rays history with a top of the sixth inning inside the park home run. It was the first Rays pinch hit inside the park home run in franchise history.

#2 Rays pitcher Aaron Civale pitch six strong innings as a starter with five hits and five strikeouts it was a strong outing for Civale.

#3 After getting clobbered by the Giants on Tuesday night 7-0 the Rays turned things around in Wednesday’s matinee with a comeback win 6-1. Raley said of his contribution that the inside the park homer wasn’t designed that way and that he would have rather hit it over the wall and take a nice jog.

#4 Relief pitcher Ryan Walker who came in for starter and opener Ross Stripling in the second inning. The Rays tagged Stripling pretty good in six innings of work, giving up 11 hits, five runs and three strike outs.

#5 The Giants give it another go they open up a three game series with the Atlanta Braves at Truist Park in Cobb County for a 4:20pm PT first pitch. The Giants have not announced a starter for the Braves Spencer Strider (13-4 ERA 3.75).

Michael Duca does the Giants podcasts each Thursday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

On the San Francisco Giants podcast with Troy Ewers:

#1 Troy, it looked like Giants manager Gabe Kapler’s ejection from last night fired up the team, they responded with a four pitcher combined shutout and went on a hitting attack to defeat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-0.

#2 It was the Giants debut of rookie centerfielder Wade Meckler who got his first hit in the bottom of the sixth inning that jump started his career. Meckler went onto get two hits and and score a run.

#3 Meckler was at bat when he took a pitch that looked liked a ball which Kapler came out and argued about. Meckler said he didn’t argue the call because he was just in his second day on the job and didn’t want to come off as disrespecting the umpires.

#4 Troy, talk about the two home runs that the Giants got from Thairo Estrada and Wilmer Flores both hit home runs in the 7-0 landslide of the Rays on Tuesday night. For Estrada it was hit tenth home run of the season and for Flores it was 17th home run.

#5 The Tampa Bay Rays will be starting Aaron Civale (5-3 ERA 2.61) will be matched up against the San Francisco Giants Ryan Walker (4-1 ERA 2.28) expect Walker to be an opener a 12:45pm PT first pitch at Oracle Park.

Troy Ewers is a http://www.sportsradioservice.com beat writer and podcast contributor

San Francisco Giants pitcher Luke Jackson gives up a home run to Tampa Bay Rays hitter Luke Bethancourt in the top of the seventh inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Mon Aug 14, 2023 (AP News photo)

On the Giants podcast with Stephen:

#1 The Tampa Bay Devil Rays got lots of support on Monday night from their starting pitching Tyler Glasnow was in command of the San Francisco Giants line up pitching six innings, three hits, one earned run, three walks, and seven strikeouts as the Rays landslide the Giants 10-2.

#2 Glasnow had come back from back from back spasms and threw 98 MPH and broke the webbing of catcher Christian Bethancourt’s glove.

#3 Bethancourt got a homer and a single to score a run and Glasnow chalked up his fourth straight win the Rays are 72-49 and one of the dominating teams in the American League they trail the first place Baltimore Orioles by three games in the AL East.

#4 Giants reliever Tristan Beck got the worst end of it from the Tampa Bay hitters giving up ten hits, five runs and two strikeouts. Giving up the most runs for the Giants.

#5 The Rays and Giants go at it again at Oracle Park on Tuesday night going for the Rays Mack Littell (2-3 ERA 4.10) and the Giants have . First pitch at Oracle 6:45pm PT.

Join Stephen for the Giants podcasts Tuesdays at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Tampa Bay Rays’ Christian Bethancourt, right, is congratulated by third base coach Brady Williams (4) after hitting a home run against the San Francisco Giants during the seventh inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023.(AP News photo)

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San Francisco (64-56). 000 010 010. – 2. 6. 1

Time: 2:45

Attendance: 25,748

By Lewis Rubman

SAN FRANCISCO–What league do the Giants play in, any way? Tonight’s humiliating 10-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays was the ninth consecutive game they’ve played against an American League opponent. They’ve now lost seven of them.

The Giants added two reinforcements before game time. They promoted Wade Meckler and Johan Camargo from Sacramento. Both started tonight’s game, Meckler in center field and batting second, Camargo at third base and batting ninth.

Meckler, the first of the Giants’ 2022 draft picks to reach the majors, went 0 for 3 but handled himself well at the hot corner. Camargo, a veteran of 416 games in six seasons in the show, where he posted a lifetime batting average of .255, went 1 for 4.

Tampa Bay made a newsworthy roster move of its own before game time. They placed infielder Wander Franco on the restricted list because of illicit behavior on the internet.

Southpaw pitcher Jacob López, who made his major league debut when he entered the game to pitch the bottom of the seventh, took Franco’s place on the roster. Stayed in the game, allowing one run, earned, on three hits in his three innings of work.

The orange and black went with an opener for the fourth time in six games. The choice was Ryan Walker , making his ninth start of the season as an opener.. His was a respectable 4-1, 2.40 before pitching his two scoreless innings and giving way to Tristan Beck.

The Rays, inventors of the bullpen game, went with a traditional starter, Tyler Glasnow. He had held the Yankees to one run in a seven inning start on July 31 but had to leave the game due to back spasms. This was his first appearance since then.

Glasnow brought a 5-3, 3.15 record (3-2, 2.11 in July) with him to the mound. Glasnow pitched a strong game, going six innings while holding the Giants to one run, which was earned, on three hits and three bases on balls. He threw 87 pitches, 58 for strikes, en route to his sixth win and bringing his ERA down to 3.01.

Beck pitched himself out of a two on, one out jam in the third, but he couldn’t wiggle out of the mess the Rays created in the fourth, Curtis Mead shot a one out single to center and moved up a notch on Christian Bethancourt’s safety to left.

Manuel Margot’s ground out to third offered a respite to the Ray attack, Oslleiivis Basabe singled both runners home, and Yandy Díaz capped the scoring with an RBI double to center. Tampa Bay was up, 3-0.

Beck coughed up another run in fifth. With two down and Harold Ramírez, who had led off with a single, on first, Mead hit a hard drive back to the mound. It escaped Beck’s grasp. He attempted a fancy back hand toss to first and threw the ball away.

Mead was safe at first on the single, and both he and Ramírez advanced another base on the error. Bethancourt sent a grounder through the second base hole, driving in Ramírez and sending Mead to third. Margot also smacked a single to right, bringing Mead home with the visitors’ fifth run.

San Francisco’s bats had been dormant ’til now, with Conforto’s second inning single their only hit. But they came alive in the bottom of the fifth, even if they only managed to produce one run. Pederson opened the frame with a single to right center. Conforto walked.

Thairo Estrada hit a single off shortstop Basabe’s glove and into left that brought Pederson home. With the exception of Blake Sabol’s fly to the left field warning track, that was the extent of the Giants’ offensive resurrection for the inning. They still trailed, only now it was by 5-1.

Luke Jackson replaced Beck for the sixth and held the Rays in check for a while, until Bethancourt planted a 3-2 slider half way up the left field bleachers, 407 feet deep, for his eighth home run and 24th RBI of the season and a 6-1 advantage for the team from St. Petersburg. A walk to Margot, and Jackson was gone, replaced by Scott Alexander, who notched the two outs to hold the damage at 6-1.

The home team loaded the bases with two outs in the seventh against the rookie López after Crawford reached first on an error, Camargo singled, and Wade was hit by a pitch. But Mecker went down swinging on a full count.

Tampa Bay added to its already comfortable lead in the eighth. Arozamena started it with a walk. Meckler made a beautiful play on Ramírez’s grounder to third, but the out call at first was reversed on. aooeal. Singles by Paredes and Siri, and it was 8-1, Rays.

A Conforto single to left and Estrada’s double to right gave the Giants a fig leaf second run in their half of the eighth.

Taylor Rogers allowed two more tallies in the Tampa Bay ninth on a single to Arozarena, a triple to Ramírez, and a wild pitch.

López set the Giants down in order in the ninth to complete the debacle.

Beck was charged with the loss, making him (3-2, 3.62)

The Giants will try to tie the series Tuesday, at 6:45. They’ll haven’t yet announced who they’ll send against Zack Littell (2-3, 4.10)