{"id":255323,"date":"2026-05-02T12:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255323\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:02:13","slug":"sf-giants-fall-3-0-in-tampa-bay-seventh-shutout-loss-under-vitello-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255323\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Giants fall 3-0 in Tampa Bay, seventh shutout loss under Vitello"},"content":{"rendered":"

Make that a Major League-leading seven shutout losses just 32 games into the Giants\u2019 baptism under manager Tony Vitello.<\/a><\/p>\n

That is how their season started against the Yankees, how their previous series opened in Philadelphia,<\/a> and how Friday\u2019s 3-0 series-opening loss ended up at Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

Tropicana Field proved no oasis for Vitello\u2019s last-place squad (13-19). This was their quickest defeat yet (2 hours, 3 minutes).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re in the league long enough, my sense and my knowledge since being around these guys is they\u2019re very good at turning the page and understanding there\u2019s a length of the season,\u201d Vitello told reporters, as broadcast on NBC Sports Bay Area\u2019s postgame show. \u201cYou can\u2019t freak out about this or that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Giants (13-19) weren\u2019t exactly close to scoring Friday night, three nights after a 7-0 loss opened a cruel three-game sweep in Philadelphia, where the Giants twice blew ninth-inning leads in Thursday\u2019s crushing doubleheader.<\/p>\n

Upon slinking south to Tampa, the Giants fell to 2-7 against a left-handed starter, with Shane McClanahan allowing no runs on five hits with no walks and five strikeouts through six innings.<\/p>\n

The Giants\u2019 potential runs that got away:<\/p>\n

Luis Arraez got thrown out in the fourth inning trying to stretch a double into a triple.
\nJerar Encarnacion stifled a fifth-inning rally with a double-play groundout, after Rafael Devers reached on a leadoff single<\/a> and took third on a Jung Hoo Lee single.
\nPatrick Bailey opened the sixth with a single to left, promptly followed by a Heliot Ramos\u2019 double-play grounder back to Rays starter McClanahan.<\/p>\n

Giants starter Robbie Ray mirrored McClanahan in striking out five and walking none through 6 1\/3 innings, but the Rays did score three runs off him, two via the long ball.<\/p>\n

Ray yielded leadoff home runs to Yandy Diaz and Junior Caminero in the second and fourth innings, respectively. The Giants fell behind 3-0 in the sixth once No. 9-hitter Taylor Walls led off with a double, stole third (on Bailey\u2019s initial pick-off throw to second), and scored on a Chandler Simpson flyout.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always say solo homers don\u2019t usually beat you,\u201d Ray told reporters, as broadcast on NBC Sports Bay Area. \u201cFirst one, probably just elevated a bit, he was able to backspin it, I didn\u2019t think it was going to make it out, but it did. Then the second one, I challenged a good hitter, a 3-2 count, fastball, best pitch, and he was just ready for it. For the most part I can live with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diaz hit an opposite-field shot into the first row of the left-field seats on a 92.5-mph fastball. Caminero hit a no-doubt, 432-foot blast on a 93.8-mph fastball to lead off the Rays\u2019 half of the fourth, for a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Ray had allowed only five home runs in six previous starts, including two in an April 14 loss at Cincinnati.\u00a0Although he entered with a strong 2.70 ERA, the Giants have scored just one or no runs in four of his seven outings, including three shutout losses.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of those things where it\u2019s magnified when we\u2019re not hitting as well,\u201d Ray added. \u201cWe have to come back tomorrow and get after it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Devers delivered a leadoff hit of his own Friday. Mind you, it wasn\u2019t a home run \u2013 he last hit one April 8 \u2013 but he battled through a nine-pitch at-bat to scorch a 107-mph single up the middle in the fifth; Devers went 1-for-10 in the three-game sweep to the Phillies. After Adames struck out (on a so-close replay challenge), Jung Hoo Lee singled, but then came a rally-killing, 5-4-3 double-play groundout by Encarnacion.<\/p>\n

Another leadoff single was wasted the next inning, as Bailey\u2019s was followed by an Ramos\u2019 double-play groundout to McClanahan.<\/p>\n

The only other season in which the Giants got shut out more through 32 games was 1976 (eight). They have lost five straight on the road and are now 6-10 away from Oracle Park, 1-6 in interleague play.<\/p>\n

The Rays, second in the AL East, have swept three opponents this season, including the first-place Yankees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Make that a Major League-leading seven shutout losses just 32 games into the Giants\u2019 baptism under manager Tony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[111052,111053,9635,114,3817,22676,110,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-255323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-giants-alert","tag-giants-hq","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}