{"id":8885,"date":"2025-05-07T21:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T21:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/8885\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T21:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T21:07:09","slug":"sf-giants-record-still-perfect-in-robbie-rays-starts-ryan-walker-rebounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/8885\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Giants&#8217; record still perfect in Robbie Ray&#8217;s starts, Ryan Walker rebounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 The Giants have yet to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/05\/06\/sf-giants-score-nine-runs-in-stunning-11th-inning-to-shock-cubs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">get Justin Verlander a win<\/a>. When Robbie Ray takes the mound, all they can do is win.<\/p>\n<p>Ray pitched six innings of one-run ball and closer Ryan Walker bounced back from Tuesday night\u2019s costly outing to record a save as the Giants (24-14) beat the Chicago Cubs, 3-1, to take two of three in the Windy City. San Francisco\u2019s record when Ray starts improves to 8-0.<\/p>\n<p>Following Ray\u2019s departure from the ballgame, manager Bob Melvin stuck with his typical late inning formula: Camilo Doval for the seventh, Tyler Rogers for the eighth and Walker \u2014 who couldn\u2019t hold last night\u2019s two-run lead \u2014 for the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Following Doval\u2019s scoreless seventh and Rogers\u2019 scoreless eight, Walker, once again, took the mound in the ninth inning with a two-run lead \u2014 the exact same circumstances he inherited last night. This time around, Walker shut the door.<\/p>\n<p>Walker allowed a leadoff single to Carson Kelly but immediately followed up by inducing a double play. The right-hander then got Nico Hoerner to ground out, recording his seventh save of the season.<\/p>\n<p>LaMonte Wade Jr., Christian Koss and Wilmer Flores, who tallied three hits, all drove in a run apiece for the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Ray has recorded a quality start in each of his last three outings, allowing three earned runs over 20 innings with 21 strikeouts to five walks. The left-hander now owns a 2.84 ERA over 44 1\/3 innings this season.<\/p>\n<p>Ray was far more efficient in the second half of his outing compared to the first half. The left-hander needed 65 pitches to complete his first three innings; in the third inning alone, Ray threw 33 pitches. To complete innings four, five and six, by contrast, Ray only needed 33 pitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 The Giants have yet to get Justin Verlander a win. When Robbie Ray takes the mound,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,4,1822,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-8885","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-mlb","11":"tag-robbie-ray","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-giants","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","16":"tag-sf","17":"tag-sf-giants","18":"tag-sfgiants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114468594987110126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885","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=8885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}