Game Wrap 6/22/2018: Padres 6 Giants 2

The Giants offense sputtered against lefty Clayton Richard and the Giants failed to take advantage of a Quality Start by Chris Stratton.  Key Lines:

Gorkys Hernandez CF- 2 for 4, 2 2B.  BA= .286.  Gorkys led off the Giants first inning with a drive up Triples Alley that Margot was just able to cut off at the warning track to hold him to a double.  He came around to score on a Wild Pitch to get the Giants the first lead of the game.  Gorkys doubled again later in the 6'th inning but with 2 outs and was stranded when Buster Posey's liner was caught by Wil Myers in LF.

Chris Stratton RHP- 6 IP, 9 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 3 K's.  ERA= 4.14.  Even though he did not walk anyone, I thought Stratton's command was off, especially early in the game.  All of his pitches were up in the strike zone.  I felt like he was fortunate to not give up more runs than he did.  He did seem to settle down a bit until the 6'th inning.  Once the Padres got that lead, you kind of knew the game was over.

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All other NL West teams won, so the Giants fell into 4'th place, 5 games behind the division leading D'Backs.  The Dodgers are 2.5 games behind the leaders, the Rockies are 4.5 games back and the Padres remain 8.5 games behind in last place.

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Andrew Suarez tries to get the Giants back to .500 today facing Jordan Lyles.