For second night in row, Giants' pitching, offense falter in loss to Mets
The Giants, who fell to the Mets 9-0 on Saturday, are a team of contrasts. In their three wins, they've scored 19 runs on 35 hits. In their six losses, they have five runs and 25 hits.
Giants manager Tony Vitello, left, prepares to take the ball from pitcher Landen Roupp in the fifth inning of Saturday's game against the Mets at Oracle Park. Roupp allowed seven runs and seven hits in 4⅔ innings. (Godofredo A.
Vásquez/Associated Press) Oracle Park isn't usually a place where teams come to warm their bats up, but the New York Mets found the San Francisco Giants ' stadium to their liking for the second night in a row. Landen Roupp , so unyielding against the Padres on Monday, was bedeviled by slow grounders and bouncers through holes early on Saturday, then gave up some harder contact in the fifth and all the while, his teammates scuffled at the plate in a 9-0 loss. The Giants also made three errors.
"I would just lump the two games together, they've done a really good job of swinging the bat," manager Tony Vitello said. "But you'd be hard pressed to find an inning where they scored where there wasn't potential for the inning to be over, or there wasn't a free pass in there. On defense, we could certainly do better.
" Roupp usually thrives at Oracle Park, where he had a 2. 56 ERA last year, and he opened up the game with four consecutive strikeouts. By the time he came out, though, the damage was significant: seven runs, six earned, in 4⅔ innings.
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