Logan Webb lasted only 1⅓ innings in a blowout loss to the last-place Nationals, extending the Giants’ losing streak to four games.
It’s not often you see a pitcher emerge from the dugout and jog out to the bullpen in the middle of the second inning. But only moments later, Sean Manaea was making it a roundtrip commute, and Logan Webb was hanging his head on the bench.
The Giants lost their second straight to the last-place Nationals, 10-1. The skid reached four games. They have yet to announce their starter for Sunday’s series finale, a must-win to avoid being swept in a three-game series for the first time this season. In a second inning that seemed like it would never end, Webb exhausted 41 pitches while recording one out and allowing all six runs. The Nationals were relentless, fouling off nearly a third of his pitches in the inning. He was 29 pitches deep with one on and two in after three batters; it wasn’t until his 36th offering that he recorded his first out, getting Luis Garcia swinging on a changeup for his second strikeout of the night.Manaea began his trot to the bullpen, and the No.
Webb, the MLB leader in innings pitched, had never in 97 career starts failed to make it out of the second inning. His previous shortest start was 2 ⅔ innings, all the way back in 2019. Since he ascended into the staff ace in the second half of 2021, Webb had gone at least five in 56 of a possible 62 starts, including all 20 this season before Saturday.
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