Giants Get Curbstomped in Third, Lose 13-1

In their first matchup of the season, it only took the Giants only three innings to find out why the New York Mets were the champions of the National League. The New York offense put up a twelve, yes, you read that right, twelve, spot in the bottom of the third inning, the most runs the franchise has scored in any inning in history, on route to winning their seventh straight game by a score of 13-1.

Jake Peavy and Mike Broadway were the recipients of all but one run in that frame. In the third, Peavy and Broadway combined to allow four walks, eight hits, and, of course, the twelve runs. Peavy did not register a single out in that nightmare, and only completed two innings in a night to forget.

The New York offense began the inning by taking freebies from Peavy, as Curtis Granderson and David Wright drew two consecutive five-pitch walks to start up the inning. New York's rising superstar, Michael Conforto, doubled in Granderson, and the team's star free agent and exotic car enthusiast, Yoenis Cespedes, drove in Wright with a single.

The ever-so-wise Dave Righetti tried to calm the waters, but not even Rags's magic words of wisdom could right the Peavy train as he surrendered another walk, this time to Lucus Duda, followed by a double do Neil Walker, which drove in Duda. Bochy decided enough was enough, and canned Peavy in his shortest outing of the season with the score at 4-0 Mets.

Broadway was brought in to limit the damage, but there wasn't anything that was going to slow down the New York offense train. Asdrubal Cabrera kept the momentum going, doubling to bring home Walker and put New York up five.

After walking Kevin Plawecki and striking out Steven Matz, Granderson singled to bring home Cabrera and extend the lead to six. Wright and Conforto added in a single of their own, and Conforto drove in Plawecki with his knock.

With the bases loaded, Cespedes put an exclamation point on the inning by smashing a liner just over the left-field fence, bringing all the ducks on the pond home and putting the Mets up by the final margin of twelve.

To add insult to injury, San Francisco's offense was no more adept at scoring runs than Peavy and Broadway were at keeping them from happening. The Giants had ample opportunity to knock Peavy's match-up, Steven Matz, around and dinged him for a couple of runs, but the offense simply couldn't get the big hit when it counted.

There's a reason that Matz only pitched six innings, as the up-and-coming stud wasn't lights out, allowing seven hits and three walks while striking out four before being taken out of the ballgame. Although Matz did not have his overpowering strikeout stuff, he didn't need to, as San Francisco batted 0-6 with runners in scoring position, and left 13 runners on base. The lone run came via an Angel Pagan solo shot (stay hot Pagan).

As a Giants fan, the only plausible course of actions, aside from sobbing in a corner, of course, is to find the microscopically silver lining.

For one, if that third inning was erased and all other aspects of the game remain the same, San Francisco and New York are tied up at one apiece. Albeit this means that the Giants still only scored the one run, but now we're talking about a pitcher's duel, not a blowout.

Despite the run, the homegrown arm, Steven Okert, ate up two innings and struck out two in the process, a bit of a confidence booster after having his first bad outing against San Diego. Javier Lopez may have been San Francisco's star of the night, as he did not allow a hit nor a walk and struck out one in his one inning of work.

As a whole, the offense drew six walks, the continuation of a yearlong trend in which these hitters have been more patient at the plate. Currently, the Giants are ranked third in the league with 95 walks, only bested by the Pittsburg Pirates with 100 and the Chicago Cubs with an absurd 121.

The team also combined for nine hits, a nice amount to have any day of the week. Along with Pagan's homer, Denard Span reached base three times via a single and two walks, and Brandon Crawford had himself a nice two-hit night.

Even with the positives, this loss is going to leave a bad taste in the mouths of the Giants that one can only hope they use as motivation tomorrow in game two of this three-game series.

Matt Cain looks to get the Giants back on track tomorrow as he faces Jacob deGrom. deGrom has had an edge over the Giants in his career, totaling two wins with only a 1.17 ERA in over 15 1/3 innings.

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