Through his first two starts with the Giants, Snell has allowed 10 runs over seven innings and taken the loss both times.
San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Blake Snell reacts after throwing a ball against the Tampa Bay Rays during the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 14, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Giants paid $62 million to add a two-time Cy Young winner to their rotation. Two-and-a-half weeks into the season, they’re still waiting for him to arrive.
It’s not exactly the results they envisioned when they inked the 31-year-old left-hander late in spring training. Only finalizing the deal on March 19, it is the reality they signed up for, though. The first pitch out of Snell’s left hand was a fastball a foot outside and about the same distance above the strike zone. The first two curveballs he threw he buried in the dirt, and the third Randy Arozarena uncorked at 104 mph to drive home the Rays’ first run of the game.Overall, Snell landed only 48 of his pitches Sunday for strikes and ran two- or three-ball counts against nine of the 20 hitters he faced.
The home run, extending the Rays’ advantage to 7-1, was the second of the day surrendered by Snell, and Pinto would later add a second against Kai-Wei Teng in the sixth. It was Amed Rosario who delivered the other big swing, capping a three-run first inning with a line drive that snuck over the left-field wall.
Following Wade’s first-inning single, the Giants went 14 up, 14 down, but Jorge Soler at least made sure their next base runner was worthwhile, ripping a two-out single through the left side of the infield to score Fitzgerald, cutting the deficit to 7-2.
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