Swept by Chicago, Giants have lost 10 of 13 and went 2-6 on a home stand vs. three teams with losing records.
SAN FRANCISCO — Last Thursday, after three one-run losses to the surging defending champions, the Giants boarded their charter flight home from Atlanta in need of a fresh start. One player remarked about the cleansing nature of returning to the crisp summer air of the Bay Area after a few soupy days in the south.A 13-2 loss Sunday capped a series sweep at the hands of the White Sox and a stretch of eight games at Oracle Park that resulted in two wins.
The bulk of the White Sox’s runs Sunday came after Donovan Walton botched what would have been an inning-ending double play by throwing wide to Wilmer Flores at second in the third, then on a bases-clearing double in the fifth that scored three runners — two of whom reached on infield singles that could have been outs in an alternate timeline. Fans streamed for the exits during a five-run eighth inning that made it 11-1 and prompted the Giants to bring in catcher Austin Wynns pitch the ninth.
Over the final 39 innings of the home stand, the Giants scored nine runs. Besides a nine-run outburst last Saturday against the Reds, they were held to four or fewer in every game. On Sunday, they were outhit 17-7. Those figures were bolstered, too, by three runs on four hits in the ninth, once it was already 13-1.Chicago had lost six of eight entering this series. The Reds, with the NL’s worst winning percentage, had lost seven straight before visiting China Basin and taking two of three.
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