SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Nick Pivetta struck out eight in five sharp innings and Ram\u00f3n Laureano hit a two-run home run for the San Diego Padres, who beat the San Francisco Giants 7-1 Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n
The Padres and their rookie manager, Craig Stammen, were outscored 12-5 in losing the first two games of the series to the Giants and their rookie skipper, Tony Vitello. The Giants, in turn, had been outscored 13-1 in getting swept by the New York Yankees in their opening series.<\/p>\n
Pivetta (1-1) bounced back from a rough opening day start, when he allowed six runs and seven hits in three innings of an 8-2 home loss to Detroit.<\/p>\n
His second start was much better. He allowed just a single to former Padres teammate Luis Arraez leading off the second and walked two.<\/p>\n
Arraez had three of the Giants’ four hits and was the only San Francisco baserunner to reach scoring position, doing so three times. The Giants struck out 14 times.<\/p>\n
After Jeremiah Estrada pitched a perfect sixth, Arraez opened the seventh with a leadoff double down the right field line off Adrian Morejon, advanced on a groundout and scored on Harrison Bader’s two-out single to left.<\/p>\n
Mason Miller got the final four outs for his second save. Miller struck out the side in the ninth after allowing Arraez’s leadoff single.<\/p>\n
Laureano got the four-run eighth going with a two-run homer off Jos\u00e9 Butt\u00f3, his second of the season. Butt\u00f3 walked the bases loaded and then allowed Fernando Tatis Jr.’s RBI infield single and Xander Bogaerts’ RBI walk.<\/p>\n
Gavin Sheets doubled twice and drove in a run off Adrian Houser (0-1), who was making his Giants debut. Sheets doubled in Laureano in the sixth.<\/p>\n
San Diego’s first two runs were unearned because of two infield errors.<\/p>\n
Houser allowed three runs, one earned, and seven hits in 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Giants RHP Robbie Ray (0-1, 3.38 ERA) opens a home series against the New York Mets on Thursday night. Padres RHP Michael King is scheduled to start Friday’s matinee series opener at Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Nick Pivetta struck out eight in five sharp innings and Ram\u00f3n Laureano hit a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[11710,12051,5,54201,920,1530,84043,365,3922,16760,85,1101,87,4,45,9500,9501,43,9496,9497,39138,1495,1822,137,18,4339,4338,1870,1821],"class_list":{"0":"post-658465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-adrian-houser","9":"tag-adrian-morejon","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-craig-stammen","12":"tag-fernando-tatis-jr","13":"tag-gavin-sheets","14":"tag-giants-padres-score","15":"tag-harrison-bader","16":"tag-jeremiah-estrada","17":"tag-jose-butto","18":"tag-luis-arraez","19":"tag-mason-miller","20":"tag-michael-king","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-nick-pivetta","23":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","24":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","25":"tag-padres","26":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","27":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","28":"tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","29":"tag-ramon-laureano","30":"tag-robbie-ray","31":"tag-san-diego","32":"tag-san-diego-padres","33":"tag-sandiego","34":"tag-sandiegopadres","35":"tag-tony-vitello","36":"tag-xander-bogaerts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658465","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=658465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}