{"id":719411,"date":"2026-06-07T04:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/719411\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T04:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:15:13","slug":"mlb-scores-giants-bested-by-pca-in-3-2-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/719411\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB scores: Giants bested by PCA in 3-2 loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

A day after a trio of Giants clubbed a pair of home runs each<\/a> in an 18-3 frolic, they were outdone and undone by a sole Cub clubbing a pair of his own.<\/p>\n

Pete Crow-Armstrong launched two equalizers towards the El tracks in right over the course of Chicago\u2019s 3-2 extra-inning win on Saturday: the first in the 6th inning off Landen Roupp, and another with two outs in the bottom of the 9th off closer of the day Keaton Winn.<\/p>\n

Prior to those fireworks, starting arms Ben Brown and Roupp do-si-doed over 5 scoreless innings.<\/p>\n

For Roupp, the performance was a welcome return to form after allowing 8 runs on 8 hits and 5 walks during his last outing in Milwaukee. He got himself in and out of trouble in the 1st after a couple of two-out walks and settled in nicely after that. Cubs hitters managed just two singles off of him, limited in part by the soft hands and rangy defense of Willy Adames, Luis Arraez, and Roupp himself. With the speedy PCA at first, Roupp turned a weakly hit bounder that looked to be a surefire productive out into a double play with an aggressive throw that nabbed the lead runner.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the hill, Ben Brown proved to be the wet blanket that always seems to await this offense after an outburst. 19-run feast against Colorado on Sunday, Monday they were scrounging for scraps. After posting 18 runs on 19 hits, the 26 year-old right-hander held the Giants to just a 1st inning single and walk as he pitched into the 6th. But nearing 90 pitches on the day as he tentatively embarked on his third time through the order, Chicago skipper, Craig Counsell, decided he\u2019d rather not see the recently converted starter face Rafael Devers again. The move made somewhat sense on paper \u2014 it just didn\u2019t quite work out that way as turned on a 1-2 fastball from Caleb Thielbar and punched it through the headwinds and into the stands.<\/p>\n

The one-run lead didn\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n

Three pitches into the bottom half of the 6th, Chicago had answered.<\/p>\n

Crow-Armstrong teased this outcome when he fouled off the first two pitches of the at-bat. The first, a change-up, had the distance to clear the wall but sailed wide. The second, a cutter, PCA deflected into the screen behind home plate before he shouted a choice monosyllabic word after the follow-through spun him around. He made a meal of his frustration at missing the offering. He tucked his bat under his arm and paced around the plate muttering to himself as he removed his arm padding and tore at his batting gloves. Typically this kind of batter\u2019s box bluster precedes a third strike. The foul ball that just skirts being a home run is almost always a kiss of death. Maybe Roupp bought into that superstition as well. Maybe for PCA it was all an act, pretending to be annoyed and disgruntled and out-of-sorts in order to bait Roupp into another fastball.<\/p>\n

Roupp walked the next batter, Michael Conforto, who then stole second, giving the Cubs their first at-bats with a runner in scoring position since the 1st and a real chance to take their first lead of the series. They\u2019d have to wait. Roupp locked back in and struck out the next two hitters, but at 98 pitches, Tony Vitello decided to dip into his pen rather than see his starter try to close out the frame \u2014 a decision that got him a North Carolinian glare Giants fans and coaches have long been familiar with.<\/p>\n

Reliever Caleb Kilian loaded the bases with a walk and a single (kept admirably on the infield by Adames) but ultimately got Nico Hoerner to fly out to end the threat, keep the game tied, and close the book on Roupp.<\/p>\n

The score stayed knotted at 1 until the 9th when the Giants scratched another run home after one-out singles from Jung Hoo Lee (his second of the day, hitting streak to 14 games), and Bryce Eldridge (streak to 9 games) before Matt Chapman\u2019s sacrifice fly. Solid situational baseball all around. Lee had a great read on the ball in play and went from first to third on the hit to Seiya Suzuki in right. Speedster Jonah Cox pinch ran for Eldridge and stole second, eliminating the possible inning-ending double play while also putting himself in scoring position. And Chapman stayed back on a center-cut fastball, saw it deep, and made sure he put it in play. If the 2-1 score held, and San Francisco won this game, that sequence at the plate and on the base paths would be the reason why. Looking back on it now, it\u2019s just the inning in which a key runner was stranded at second, in which a clutch hit \u2014 in such ample supply yesterday! \u2014 didn\u2019t occur. Eric Haase lined a fastball 330 feet with the ball leaving his bat at 104 MPH, but instead of splitting a gap or clearing a wall, it found a defender\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n

The one-run would have to do\u2026and it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

To be clear, Keaton Winn is having a solid year. Few batters get satisfaction from putting one of his pitches in play. The contact is off-barrel, weakly hit, often in the ground. In terms of physicality and stuff, Winn reads as a late-inning reliever \u2014 but so far he\u2019s underperformed when thrust into a save situation. His overall ERA is in the mid-2.00, while his ERA in the 9th inning is now 4.50 with a 1.50 WHIP<\/a>. Opponents are posting a .869 OPS<\/a> (40 PA) in situations Baseball Reference defines as \u201chigh leverage\u201d \u2014 and that number doesn\u2019t include today\u2019s results.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s today\u2019s result.<\/p>\n

Winn got the first two guys out in the 9th before this splitter he banana-ed out over the heart of the plate to PCA, forcing extra innings.<\/p>\n

Extra innings didn\u2019t go well. Victor Bericoto pinch hit against lefty Ryan Rolison for Drew Gilbert, who has yet to get a hit against a southpaw this season, and logged at an at-bat worthy of Gilbert\u2019s ineffectiveness. Three pitches \u2014 he swung at two curveballs well-below the zone before taking a 95 MPH fastball. Without a productive lead-off hitter in the 10th, scoring the Manfred Man from second requires a knock, and San Francisco bats just couldn\u2019t find a way. They had went out and spent all their scoring mojo on Friday and came up skint on Saturday, going 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n

Turning it over to Chicago, the Cubs just needed one batter in the 10th to finish it. Michael Busch singled to right and Bericoto, brought in for his bat, was forced to use his glove, and in his rush to ensure the winning run didn\u2019t score, he booted the ball, ensuring it did.<\/p>\n

The 2026 San Francisco Giants have yet to win four games in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day after a trio of Giants clubbed a pair of home runs each in an 18-3 frolic,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,81698],"class_list":["post-719411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco-giants-scores-standings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116706890440223867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719411","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=719411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}