Vitello\u2019s first games<\/a> in the road grays have to be considered a success. The first-year manager won\u2019t be celebrating a sweep on the short charter flight back to San Francisco, but his team rebounded nicely from an 0-3 opening series by taking two of three in San Diego.<\/p>\nSan Francisco Giants second baseman Luis Arraez hits a single during the second inning against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. Denis Poroy-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Who\u2019s hot<\/p>\n
Willy Adames had been on a tear since moving into the leadoff spot, but the Giants shortstop was held hitless to snap a brief three-game hitting streak. The 0-for-4 effort came in SF\u2019s first loss in four games with Adames batting leadoff, dating back to Game 162 of last season.<\/p>\n
Luis Arraez was responsible for three of the Giants\u2019 four hits, including their only one in five innings off Pivetta. Arraez gave them a second with a double off Adrian Morejon to begin the seventh, and Harrison Bader got them on the board with a two-out line drive into left field for their third hit of the afternoon.<\/p>\n
The multi-hit effort from Arraez against his former team left him batting .304 after six games, the best mark among the Giants\u2019 starting lineup that has featured the same nine players in all of their first six games.<\/p>\n
Who\u2019s not<\/p>\n
The description could fit anybody in a starting lineup that doesn\u2019t feature one player with an OPS that starts with a seven or higher. For the fourth time in their first six games, the Giants were held to one run or less and three or fewer hits. Even with their nine-run outburst on Tuesday, the Giants are averaging just 2.3 per game, the fewest in the majors, with a .559 team OPS \u2014 better only than the A\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Besides the bats, Jose Butto hasn\u2019t looked like the same pitcher who tossed 5 1\/3 scoreless innings for Venezuela during the World Baseball Classic. Butto is suddenly the biggest question mark in the Giants\u2019 bullpen after retiring only one of the seven batters he faced in his second shaky outing in three games.<\/p>\n
Butto issued four walks, allowed three hits and found the strike zone on only eight of his 28 pitches, forcing Vitello to burn another arm, lefty Ryan Borucki, with seven more games in the next seven days.<\/p>\n
The Padres extended their lead from 3-1 to the eventual final margin after Butto entered the game.<\/p>\n
San Diego Padres starting pitcher Nick Pivetta delivers during the first inning against the San Francisco Giants at Petco Park. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Robbie Ray makes his second start of the season Thursday as the Giants return to Oracle Park to begin a seven-game home stand against the Mets and Phillies. Tyler Mahle gets the ball Friday, followed by Landen Roupp and Logan Webb to finish off a four-game weekend set with New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attention, operator: There seems to be a connection problem. Something wasn\u2019t working between first and third base Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,2178,162,4,18,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-657701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-san-diego-padres","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-giants","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","17":"tag-sf","18":"tag-sf-giants","19":"tag-sfgiants","20":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116332191301102379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657701","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=657701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}