San Francisco Giants weekdays recap: The Giants (8-7) were swept by the San Diego Padres (9-6) in a three-game series by scores of 3-2 (10 innings), 1-0 and 5-2. The Giants finished their southern California road trip with a paltry 1-5 mark. After scoring a combined 17 runs in the first two games of the trip at Dodger Stadium, the Giants proceeded to score only 5 runs in the last four games.
With the exception of Todd Wellemeyer, the Giants starting pitchers were solid throughout the entire trip and with any kind of reasonable offensive support San Francisco should have at worst gone 3-3 and more like 4-2 as I predicted. It's disheartening that the Giants' offense struggled so much, particularly as the Giants were averaging nearly 6 runs per game before the trip. In the San Diego series, the Giants were 1-30 with runners in scoring position. I don't need to tell you that isn't a recipe that's going to win you many games. "This is not something I thought we'd go through, but we are, and we have to handle it," said manager Bruce Bochy after Wednesday's game. I'm surprised too after the additions made in the offseason. I think things will turn around. Aaron Rowand and Mark DeRosa have been banged up, but I think it's just a bad stretch and can't be blamed too much on injuries. DeRosa looks like he's back and will be able to contribute, so hopefully that bodes well for this weekend and beyond.
San Francisco Giants weekend preview: The Giants host the St. Louis Cardinals (10-5) at AT&T Park this weekend Friday through Sunday. The game times are 8:15 p.m. MT, 7:05 p.m. MT and 2:05 p.m. MT with all games available on MLB Extra Innings and mlb.tv. Saturday night's game is also available on MLB Network. The pitching match-ups are Jaime Garcia (1-0) vs. Tim Lincecum (3-0), Adam Wainwright (3-0) vs. Barry Zito (2-0), and Brad Penny (2-0) vs. Matt Cain (0-0). The Giants are badly in need of win on Friday to snap their four-game losing streak and should get it with two-time reigning Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum on the mound. The latter two games should be excellent pitching match-ups and I think the Cardinals win both games in close ones. The Cardinals are a very talented team with a solid pitching staff and line-up anchored by Albert Pujols and Matt Holliday. I think the Giants offense will improve this weekend (I mean it can't get much worse, right?) and Pablo Sandoval appears to be finding his stride at the plate. However, I still think the Cards take two out of three.
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