{"id":661189,"date":"2026-04-03T17:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661189\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:33:23","slug":"rookie-daniel-susac-erupts-in-1st-major-league-start-giants-pound-mets-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661189\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie Daniel Susac erupts in 1st major league start; Giants pound Mets 7-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco rookie catcher Daniel Susac went 3 for 3 with a walk in his first major league start and the Giants rolled over the New York Mets 7-2 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The younger brother of former Giants catcher Andrew Susac singled in his first two big league at-bats off David Peterson (0-1), then drew a walk and singled off Sean Manaea.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Devers homered and Casey Schmitt went 3 for 3 with a walk and an RBI for the Giants, who had 13 hits overall and handed the Mets their third straight loss.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/daniel-susac-san-francisco-giants.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Daniel Susac San Francisco Giants \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Daniel Susac #6 of the San Francisco Giants hits a single at Oracle Park on April 2, 2026 in San Francisco, California.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Suzanna Mitchell\/San Francisco Giants\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Robbie Ray (1-1) gave up two runs and three hits in 5 1\/3 innings. He struck out seven and walked three.<\/p>\n<p>Former Mets reliever Blade Tidwell worked three scoreless innings to earn his first big league save. <\/p>\n<p>Bo Bichette&#8217;s RBI double off Ray gave the Mets a 1-0 lead in the first before the Giants scored three times with two outs in the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Arraez tripled off the right-field wall to score Heliot Ramos with San Francisco&#8217;s first run. Matt Chapman followed with a double down the right-field line to score Arraez. Chapman scored the third run when Peterson dropped Mark Vientos&#8217; throw to first on Jung Hoo Lee&#8217;s grounder. Peterson was charged with an error.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson allowed six runs \u2014 five earned \u2014 and nine hits in 4 1\/3 innings. He struck out five and walked two.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt had an RBI single off Manaea in the fifth and Devers hit a solo homer against Manaea in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Vientos homered in the second for New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants had used the same nine starters in the lineup for each of their first six games before Susac replaced Patrick Bailey on Thursday. Susac was a defensive replacement in San Diego on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The Mets and RHP Nolan McLean (0-0) face the Giants and RHP Tyler Mahle (0-1) in San Francisco on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco rookie catcher Daniel Susac went 3 for 3 with a walk in his first major league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,19,4,61,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-661189","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-giants","10":"tag-major-league-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york-mets","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116341979247485071","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661189","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=661189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}