Their ace put them in an early hole, their manager got tossed in the fifth inning, and the Giants lost to the Tigers for the second game in a row.
Logan Webb allowed Detroit to plate runs in each of the first three innings Tuesday at Comerica Park, and that was more than enough as the Giants’ bats stayed silent in a 3-1 loss.
It required an RBI double from Wilmer Flores in the ninth inning to avoid being shutout for the second time in five games on this road trip. The Giants will have to win Wednesday’s series finale to avoid being swept in a series of three or more games for only the second time this season.
The team’s frustrations boiled over at the beginning of the bottom of the fifth, when Bob Melvin was ejected by home plate umpire Tony Randazzo for arguing balls and strikes after questionable ball-strike calls went against the Giants in the top half of the inning and in the Tigers’ first at-bat of the bottom half.
Webb rebounded to complete six innings and struck out 10 batters but put the Giants in an early hole for his second consecutive start.
Until a week ago, only the Mets’ Kodai Senga had allowed fewer home runs than Webb among qualified starters. He surrendered two in his first 10 starts with a 2.42 ERA. But opponents have taken him deep in each of his past two starts as he allowed nine runs (six earned) on 17 hits in 10 innings, raising his ERA to 2.82.
The Giants lost both games, the first time they have lost consecutive starts of Webb’s all season, dropping their record behind their ace to an even 6-6.
When things have gone south for Webb, it has often happened early. Of the 27 runs scored against him this season, 19 have come in the first three innings. The Royals got to him in each of the first two innings in his last start, and the Tigers followed the same pattern on Tuesday.
Riley Greene ripped a 114.5 mph double that scooted away from Mike Yastrzemski in right field, allowing Gleyber Torres to race home and open a 1-0 lead in the first.
Webb fell behind Wenceel Pérez — activated from the 60-day injured list before first pitch — and allowed him to line a 2-0 sinker over the right field wall in his very first at-bat of the season, extending the lead to 2-0 in the second.
Yastrzemski ran into more problems in the third when the leadoff hitter sent a line drive into the right field corner. He gave chase as the ball ricocheted off the wall and around the warning as Colt Keith cruised into third for a leadoff triple.
Greene, the next batter, collected his second RBI in as many at-bats, sending the first pitch over the head of the infielders playing in on the cut of the grass. He finished 3-for-4, adding another double for the Tigers seventh and final hit off Webb in the fifth.
Despite taking the loss, Webb finished strong by retiring 11 of the final 13 batters he faced and successfully pleaded his case to go back out for the sixth inning, allowing him to record his eighth quality start of the season and reach double-digit strikeouts for the third time this season.
Willy Adames snapped an 0-for-12 streak at the plate with a single up the middle to lead off the second and Wilmer Flores came a benevolent gust of wind away from a two-run home run in the first, but the Giants struggled to manufacture much of anything offensively against Jack Flaherty.
From Adames’ single until Flaherty exited the game after six innings, they went hitless in 14 at-bats. The struggling shortstop also broke the drought with a single off Chase Lee in the seventh inning, his first multihit game since May 16, raising his average to .211.
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The loss dropped the Giants to 2-3 on the road trip, scoring three or fewer runs in all but one game. They haven’t scored more than four since a 9-1 win over the A’s on May 16, batting .186 as a team over that span, the lowest mark in the majors.
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RHP Landen Roupp (3-3, 3.63) will look to build on back-to-back starts of six shutout innings against RHP Jackson Jobe (4-1, 4.06) as the Giants try to avoid being swept in the series finale (10:10 a.m. PT). They have played 16 series of three or more games and been swept just once so far this season, their last time visiting an AL Central foe, from May 9-11 against the Minnesota Twins.
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