{"id":259936,"date":"2025-08-20T05:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/259936\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T05:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:11:17","slug":"kai-wei-tengs-command-issues-persist-as-sf-giants-fall-to-padres-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/259936\/","title":{"rendered":"Kai-Wei Teng&#8217;s command issues persist as SF Giants fall to Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO \u2014 Roughly a week ago, Kai-Wei Teng and Nick Pivetta faced off at Oracle Park in what ended up being a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/08\/13\/sf-giants-cant-avoid-sweep-to-padres-endure-latest-blowout-loss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10-run loss<\/a> for the Giants. There would be no blowout on Tuesday night at Petco Park, but the result was the same.<\/p>\n<p>Teng continued to struggle with command. Pivetta struck out 10 batters over six innings. Jung Hoo Lee\u2019s leadoff homer was San Francisco\u2019s only offense. The defense committed two errors. Those pieces added up to a 5-1 loss to San Diego, dropping San Francisco to 61-65 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>Teng has given away his share of free bases during his four appearances with the Giants this season. Over 13 1\/3 innings, Teng has totaled three hit batters and nine walks. Those issues cropped up in the bottom of the fourth, shortening what had been a promising start.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander began the inning by allowing a single to Ryan O\u2019Hearn then plunking Xander Bogaerts in the hand with an errant changeup. After getting Ramon Laureano to hit into a force out, Teng loaded the bases by hitting Gavin Sheets in the shin with a curveball. Jose Iglesias gave the Padres a 2-1 lead with an RBI single, and Teng\u2019s evening was done.<\/p>\n<p>Pivetta, by contrast, had a couple more innings left in the tank. After allowing one run over 6 2\/3 innings last Wednesday in San Francisco, Pivetta only allowed one run over six innings in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Teng\u2019s overall poor performance (8.78 ERA) could give the team an opportunity to call up right-hander Blade Tidwell from Triple-A Sacramento. Tidwell has impressed during his brief time in the Giants\u2019 system after being acquired in the deal that sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/07\/30\/sf-giants-trade-long-time-reliever-tyler-rogers-to-new-york-mets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Rogers to the New York Mets<\/a>. Over three starts, Tidwell has a 1.69 ERA with 23 strikeouts over 16 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, who also doubled, generated the Giants\u2019 only run of the night against Pivetta with a leadoff homer that gave the Giants an instant 1-0 lead. The center fielder has heated up in August, posting a .345\/.417\/.632 slash line over 17 games with one homer, two triples and seven doubles.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2014 Roughly a week ago, Kai-Wei Teng and Nick Pivetta faced off at Oracle Park in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,5776,2178,5774,5775,853,4,43,5777,137,18,378,5778,66,4339,4338,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-259936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-giants-hq","12":"tag-inside-sports","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-padres","16":"tag-peninsula","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-san-diego-padres","19":"tag-san-francisco","20":"tag-san-francisco-county","21":"tag-san-francisco-giants","22":"tag-sandiego","23":"tag-sandiegopadres","24":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115059378707166512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}