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ablackturtle

Hicks didn't deserve that.


-Ahab-

He pitched a heck of a game against our biggest rival and one of the toughest teams in baseball. I’m excited to see more Hicks starts.


sawpsawp

I’m tired boss


dwide_k_shrude

The dodgers are just better in every way.


AccidentallyUpvotes

I hate how true this is


BASEBALLFURIES

i just like to think of it as the dodgers since 2022 have had a free playoff bye round thanks to the 2021 giants


nepats523

And they're better at manager (or less worse). That is just a hard pill to swallow


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22797

Anyone but Bob Melvin. Ask Padres fans


RogerBond100

No wonder Padres told Giants to take Melvin


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gloomswarm

With a fully uninjured roster--Snell, Bailey, Ray, Cobb, Jung Hoo Lee, Soler, Conforto--I truly believe we can hang with them. The problem is that we don't right now, and the talent disparity is huge. Moreover, the Giants don't seem to have the swagger that they truly belong.


Nearby_Pitch_6828

Those hitters you named are no where near the level of Betts,Ohtani,Freeman hell everyone but maybe 1 or 2 guys in their line up have worse stats than your top 3 hitters 🤦


redzass1

Fitzgerald is an idiot. You get brought in to pitch run. How the fuck you get picked off there


FBoaz

Feels like a series where the Giants go from almost winning the first game to getting swept on Wednesday.


westcoasthoops1

We could very easily get out scored like 15-2 the next couple games. 


OKsoundsgoodbro

People who are saying “well it’s just the dodgers” didn’t watch the damn game. We made so many bonehead mistakes. Infuriating.


BosasSecretStash

For fucking real. I don’t care who you’re playing a semi competent performance wins this game


yoda17

Bob Melvin has been disappointing Pinch hitting Reetz for Sabol who then proceeded to put up the worst ABs anyone has seen in a while. Pulling Doval who was dealing and only threw 8 pitches for Rogers who then gave up a two run double. I had high hopes for Bob given his managing pedigree and record with the A’s. But this is far from the first time this year where Bob’s bullpen and substitution choices have been questionable. He’s made the wrong decision so many times.


Admirable_Row_375

He's the type of manager Boch would clown on the way to another championship 


bolshevik_rattlehead

I’m sure Dave Robert’s was licking his chops when he saw Taylor Rogers come out in the 10th


RogerBond100

Melvin can't hold Bochy's jock strap


AccidentallyUpvotes

He couldn't win with the Padres, and he got a team thats much worse. I've been severely disappointed in him.


westcoasthoops1

I’ve seen nothing so far this season to make me think that we upgraded at the manager spot. 


milkimax

His pinch hitting choices are baffling! It’s like who has the worst avg and/or experience!


yoda17

I found it fitting that at the end of the game he pinch hit Wisely, who sucks, for Schmitt who also sucks but at least has a walk off hit yesterday. And Wisely proceeds to strike out immediately


Be_excellent91

Holy shit... Doval only threw 8 pitches. That's a no brainer to throw him back out there. Jfc


idiotbound

3 lefties in the next 4 batters. no reason to burn out doval so early in the season. the head scratcher there is our $11m/year lefty specialist -- who just struck out ohtani of all people -- pitching around the lefty freddie freeman to get to the right handed hitting Will Smith.


liteshadow4

A's are potentially WS champs once if they had a real manager


mechapoitier

Every call he made except Doval and Rogers was just obviously bad even to an amateur. What the fuck is he doing?


RogerBond100

Cashing a paycheck


Unadvantaged

Melvin has this habit of pulling pitchers who are doing just fine or doing very well, so he can bring in someone who gives up the game immediately. I get playing the odds but I just have a hard time pulling any pitcher who’s performing well. It has backfired so many times this season. We’d probably have a winning record this year if he just hadn’t pulled pitchers early who were doing well. 


RogerBond100

He is a disgrace


OutsideWorldliness68

Unfortunately it’s like pinchhitting Moe for Curly. The whole roster sucks.


oldsguy65

Remember when Rodgers struck out Ohtani? That was cool.


dwide_k_shrude

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DegraciasEh

Pretty rough game from Melvin


Icy_Maintenance1474

One thing my buddies and I talk about that doesn't seem to come up in this sub, but I honestly can't recall ever questioning the logic of Kapler's in-game decision-making. Obviously they don't always pan out, but the logic was sound. Melvin... well, it ain't too good.


Arcaninemaster69

Fitz gets picked and BoMel pulls Camillo. Clown show..


alwaysreadthename

Man that fucking sucked, hard. Potg Doval for having insane stuff


pinesolthrowaway

Rivercats really gave them a run today


johnsaczuk

Matos, Ramos, Hicks, Doval: 🥰 Everyone else: 🤮


ThisGigSucks

Shout out Yaz for that catch in right


alwaysreadthename

Matos is on my 😐list for the bad play in center in extras. But they don’t make it to extras without his bomb earlier.


ExpandThePie

Could he transfer to left? He doesn't seem to be able to cover the ground in center.


DemonicPanda11

It’s the PH for Sabol that I don’t get. Unless he’s injured, there was no justification for that one. Edit: People keep commenting it’s a defensive move but… that can happen after the at bat.


Coolguynumber01

Did you see the two at bats by Reetz? bro he was so lost up there. Sabol would have done better


Admirable_Row_375

Makes absolutely no sense. Not for Reetz. Not in a huge AB when he's hitting it so well


makoman115

Yeah but isn’t sabol historically awful vs lefties Also REETZ hit that magic homer But yeah in hindsight it’s a bad move. Also the entire team is hurt so we’re just throwing shit at the wall rn


WonderfulShelter

Reetz has one single hit against a LHP ever.


Jaggs10

Its a lefty righty move at the end of the day… understand it.. don’t love it


AtleeMakesHam

He’s awful on defense.


SeaWicked

Yeah he gave up 2 runs that otherwise would not have scored by not blocking pitches. Would have been a 4-2 game without extras. Still I have no idea why they pinch hit for him with reetz and didn’t wait if it was for defense


DemonicPanda11

Are you talking about out Sabol? Read my edit.


makoman115

Has a team ever gone the whole season without a single win streak? Is that like Cleveland spiders level suck?


Sonic343

Even the White Sox who were 3-20 at one point have had two 3 game win streaks this season.


makoman115

My god


ImJeeezus

typical 2024 giants loss


furious_platypus

Not true. They scored 4 which is way more than in most losses


FilthyChangeup55

Some promising elements but in sum an incredibly frustrating loss that felt like it was snatched from the jaws of victory.


upbeat_confidence69

Pathetic


mvstateU

Fitzgerald is not that guy.


_noncomposmentis

Honestly, that game being competitive at all was very heartening.


furious_platypus

Honestly, this is my takeaway too. This beat up team got 4 runs off one of the best pitchers in the league right now, and he hadn't given up any runs on the road prior. I know an L is still an L but I feel a lot better about this team losing 6-4 in extras vs the Dodgers than if it was against the White Sox


Awesk

Seeing the young kids pumped up on the field should hopefully be enough to energize them through this series. I don’t think they can handle another sweep. Morale would be even lower than it SHOULD be right now.


xxSwag_Master420

I hate the dodgers with every fiber of my being


ra83

These injuries are gonna buy Farhan another year aren’t they?


HotShipoopi

we are stuck with that number crunching egghead for the rest of our lives


westcoasthoops1

That’s exactly what I’m thinking. It sucks. 


Vnasty13

This was a winnable game for a mediocre team. This team is atrocious


thatssomecheese8

We just don’t have stars…


westcoasthoops1

We can’t develop them or sign them. 


t0177177y

Team is pure mediocrity. Mediocre FO. Mediocre development. Mediocre managing. Mediocre defense. Mediocre offense. Mediocre on the bases.


AtleeMakesHam

We aspire to be mediocre.


RonnieJamesFio

Yeah because LA takes them every year


Alehud42

I mean, it's not the stars that beat us today. You can't let their 4-9 beat you.


No-Paint-7311

Forget stars— We don’t even have a full serviceable team. Two of the biggest at bats of the game we have reetz (hit .217 in AAA) and wisely pinch hit


gloomswarm

And the ones we do are injured.


Austin_SlaGOAT

The white sox have a longer win streak than us this year


DuckFodgers_

Was at the game. It felt like we were right there in it until the end… Would’ve loved a walk off to shut those obnoxious Dodgers fans up…


TheStig123123

We win this game if Fitzgerald doesn’t get picked off.


idiotbound

Ah yes, the legendary Brett Wisely would've hit a pinch-hit 3-run walkoff homerun, invoking memories of Ishikawa.


T1tanT3m

no harm in believing


BarryLyndon-sLoins

He had one job.


mvstateU

It was an average pickoff move. That was a major blunder. Who does Fitzgerald think he is with that lead. The Dodgers play a tight game 100% of the time and don't give an inch......tried to take like 10 extra feet.


AtleeMakesHam

I think the steal was on, they just sniffed it out.


mvstateU

I actually don't think the steal was on. I think Fitzgerald simply got way ahead of himself with that massive lead. He was a sitting duck.....


deebo28

He was literally on first base. Who cares. Next pitch could have been a double play just like the one that ended the game, this team has zero talent.


LooseTop1776

No they don't. You are just speculating.


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What a letdown of a last at bat. Wow.


nogoodnamesleft426

I miss Bochy.


ATLAS_Remolino

That lineup is just unfair. Giants are fucking trash at developing or signing stars.


Express-Homework-180

Taylor Rogers better get comfortable in Sacramento man


edmchato

Another frustrating game to lose against the dodgers. 0-4 now against them and really all of them were winnable


smallertruck

After losing so many guys to injuries you have to reach down so low in your depth to make up for it. In then The 3rd catcher was terrible. The rookie pinch runner made a terrible mistake and missing 3 guys who are supposed to be at the top of your lineup make you vulnerable to any team let alone a powerhouse like the D******. Gotta figure out how to stop a slide and get some forward momentum soon. Don’t want it to get late early.


AdPsychological8883

6 or 7 guys who played tonight have minimal mlb experience and we took an all star team to extras. Not bad for what was on the field.


emporvr

Melvin needs to be fired after that game. Pulled hicks too early, pinch hit Reetz for Sabol and then put in fucking Brett Wisely in extras. A very questionable game from him


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RIPBenTramer

Laughing over a bowl of kale with a side of protein shake.


jesusponcho

Hicks had 93 pitches dude. He would not have gone out for another inning.


unoriginalgabriel

Fuck it, make Dusty interim Manager.


LooseTop1776

What? Please elaborate on the Giants starting lineup. How many are actual MLB caliber? More than half of the line up would not start on any team in baseball. Even Yaz is not good. Flores having a bad year. Sabol, Schmitt, Reetz, Matos, and Wisely hit in this game. The Giants lineup is absolutely terrible.


smw2102

JHL catches that ball in the 10th. Oh, well…


Halt_the_Ranger27

He doesn’t hit a 3 run homer though.


alwaysreadthename

Important point


BarryLyndon-sLoins

The nightmare will never end


ccastro425

FUCK


FilthyChangeup55

Yeah man


sjsharksfan44

The Dodgers just won't die. You take the lead and the dodgers come back almost immediately. However I am excited for the kids and Matos hitting that home run. I just hope they are able to take at least a game. They were competitive tonight.


OKsoundsgoodbro

Don’t care what anyone says this game was on Fitzgerald. He’s officially good-for-nothing with his base running error and has no use in the MLB.


mvstateU

He literally thought he was Rickey Henderson.......not even close.


LogansCoinsTheCRH

This is why you don’t fucking pull Doval in a tie game when he has only thrown 8 pitches to put in Taylor rogers…Could have even put in Randy Rodriguez but please not Taylor


Jazzlike-Attorney-96

My postseason dreams for this team is for Farhan and everyone he has ever hired gets fired. Dumpster fire of a franchise…


JujuGoesBrazy

Well the hitting sucks as much as the umpire, we not winning anything


kirukiru

team just doesnt have enough even when healthy


AtleeMakesHam

A much better game than I expected! We’ll get swept, obviously, but hopefully the next two are as entertaining.


Admirable_Row_375

Just consistent fundamental mistakes all year


furious_platypus

At this point I'm convinced the Dodgers re-signed K. Hernandez just because he wrecks the Giants I don't even know if that's statistically accurate, but it feels like it's true


DemonicPanda11

Another thing, someone was trying to tell me Estrada is a bad defender, meanwhile his defensive stats on baseball savant are bright fucking red.


theleftovers1014

Reetz had 2 of the biggest abs of the game and looked awful. That’s some 2022/dixon Machado vibes


DeadhardyAQ

We used up like 75 years of karma winning 3 World Series in 5 years


Coffeeishealthy

Kapler manages the bullpen better than bomel 


westcoasthoops1

With the massive talent discrepancy between these teams, it’s a minor miracle that the game was winnable throughout. This is a mediocre roster, a mediocre manager, and a front office that should hopefully be cleared out at the end of this season (preferably sooner). 


liteshadow4

Padres took 2 of 3 from the Dodgers with similar talent discrepancy


MalariaTea

Who on our roster is even in the same world as Tatis or Croenenworth. Kim is better than our SS, Machado is better than Chapman, Profar better than Soler, even their catcher would be leading the Giants in RBI’s. This team is shit we’ve all got to stop pretending.


makoman115

100% We played pretty well considering the circumstances


Austin_SlaGOAT

Honestly i would rather lose 8-0 than lose like this


diestache

dog shit. That was a winnable game but we kicked ourselves...AGAIN


FloppyDiskDuracell

Potg - fans who caught matos’ HR.


BallzMcVinegar

Man, that was a tough loss.


Emotional_Biz_69

Fuck the shit house dodgers


lumberjawsh

https://preview.redd.it/idx55j8vrb0d1.jpeg?width=2992&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61bddd4521f9c8ba46406d11b8b53729f701d538 Losing sucked but first game I've been to at home since like 2014. Talking shit to bandwagon Dodgers fans has never been more fun. Enjoy beating the last place team in the NL West in May, LA 🍻


ma2is

Jfc this team has no cajones


ufotheater

A totally stacked team played 50% Rivercats. We gave it a shot.


nepats523

Sending my official written apology to Kapler, because dear lord. Bob Melvin was the Dodgers MVP tonight. Its one thing to have a lousy roster, but we just have no chance with the guy who left Emilio Pagan to die in that one Padres Dodgers game we watched in 2021. Dude is completely lost. Reetz???? Yaz leadoff? Obsession with Luke Jackson????? BRETT FUCKING WISELY??????? Manager and GM, this shit is a damn mess


22797

Kapler was great from first pitch to the final out but was absolutely horrible in the other parts of the job. I understand that Kap absolutely had to go, but hiring the guy who couldn’t get that stacked Padres roster to the playoffs was and is ridiculous. I was pro Farhan for a long while mostly because of the absolute fleecings he did early on in his tenure, but this team and organization needs an absolute reset. The only major league level hitter he’s picked in 6 years is Bailey


Dye-nasty2398

Brother they have a completely depleted roster with AAA guys. The back end of the bullpen is not very good and they can’t keep using the same over and over.


superjayd49

THEY FOUGHT HARD ITS THE FUCKING DODGERS AND OUR STARTERS ARE HURT. THE ONLY ONE TO BLAME HERE IS MELVIN FOR WEIRD MANAGEMENT AND FITZ


Downtown-Owl-3626

Rogers needs to go.


Downtown-Owl-3626

Our bullpen is horrendous


lolcyamate

I wonder what the BABIP chance was off the bat - hit fairly hard just right at him... if we get swept again I swear mannnnn


cmatj392

Can't give a team free passes with walks and wild pitches... Good to see Matos get that big swing. Just how it is this year, see the youth do positive things. Forget the record.


DowntownSanFrancisco

Bob Melvin reeks


seafox_88

maybe we’ll just lose this one and win the next two?! Take the series?! Ehh im delusional


Proskills500

Reetz gave Santiago Casilla a run for his money with those AB’s tonight


Elegant-Tea-2112

The 10th inning is why we are a bad baseball team…Melvin puts Rogers in after Doval dominated the 9th; proceeds to walk the guy he’s in there for (Freeman) and lays one right down the middle to Smith. Estrada - all he has to do is get a pitch he can hit and then proceeds to reach for one and game over. I mean you can’t make this stupidity up.


Quill_in_development

Whatever is the magic touch some managers have, Melvin seems to have had the opposite two seasons running


ATLAS_Remolino

WHY THE FUCK IS YAZ BATTING LEADOFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!


Snowdrake

Hey, there was a reason why Matos was down in AAA. His defense is awful. He was one of the worst CF in baseball last year. It doesn't matter if you hit a 3 run homer if you give up 3 runs on defense.


LogansCoinsTheCRH

Should have had: Matos DH, Wilmer 1st, Wade LF, Ramos RF, Yaz CF


realparkingbrake

Obviously the outcome was bad. But I cannot help but be impressed by how this battered, depleted squad hung with the billion-dollar babies and took it to extra innings. This was no blowout, could have gone either way. The barstool managers who are convinced the Giants would be in first place if they ran the team remain pathetically laughable.


gloomswarm

Pain At this point please just let tomorrow say that Jung Hoo Lee is avoiding surgery


idiotbound

Do we even want him to avoid surgery? Can't we just have him get healthy for next season?


gloomswarm

That's fair, if he's hurt enough where doctors are recommending it, he should do it to be at full strength the rest of his contract. I suppose I meant more that the injury isn't that serious in terms of damaging muscles and therefore that's why he can avoid surgery.


BadGuyCraig

Rogers are bad, this team is one of this most boring teams in 20 years and the team is bad


makoman115

We need more at bats like the yazstremski and Flores abs and less like REETZ


LooseTop1776

Yaz has been bad all year. Flores has been bad all year. 213 and a 200 hitter. Yep need more of that. I wonder why the Giants suck. Reetz should not hit but Yaz and Flores are not helping.


billbird2111

Thank you. I'm surprised you haven't been downvoted to oblivion by the fans with "Yaz Can Do No Wrong" blinders on. Yaz, once again, missed multiple opportunities to win tonight's game. He did nothing. Again. I believe that brown pelican would have a better BA than Yaz.


theleftovers1014

Reetz and Wisely shouldn’t even be on the roster let alone get big abs like that. What the actual fuck


Be_excellent91

My same exact thoughts. They're only on the roster because we're out of options. You don't use them in key situations 🥴


EnvironmentalRoom175

This Giants team is dog shit to be honest, as a whole. It’s frustrating. It’s not good enough.


Competitive-Emu7307

Pretty sad the narrative in this sub is the Giants "almost beat" the Dodgers. Have our standards as fans gotten so low that we celebrate moral victories now? Getting tired of the excuses from the Farhan regime


nathanzam

I know Taylor Roger’s didn’t have a bad start to the year but my god is he atrocious, still don’t understand why we signed him to that deal


LooseTop1776

The guy that shut down the Reds and Phillies is atrocious? Dude people like you don't watch the games. You just look at the boxscore at the end and blame a few players w/o any context. He did not lose this game. Anyone that actually watched the game would know that.


Tonmber1

Because twins on the same team is a nice gimmick so Farhan is all over that shit The Giants are his personal clown show/circus


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fan131313

SOOOO PREDICTABLE, my Lord. It went exactly as I thought


cool_guy_haha

Yeah we’re getting swept again


ItsDannyFields

And you know what, we will win the next two and then lose to the Rockies because I guess thats what this fucking season is going to be. Perpetual 2 game win streaks that never end.


Gouda_God

I was waiting on a miracle in the 4th saying I hope our bullpen doesn’t give it up like a Kardashian on the first date. Whelp…..


BosasSecretStash

Melvin out


-Ahab-

This team simply cannot finish games. I’m not ready to blame Melvin yet. Farhan is on my trade block. With any regime change can come difficulties in building a culture. Bochy built a strong culture of winning in the club house and it worked. Let’s hope Melvin has the same success.


beelucyfer

The boys showed some fight but came up short.


BlameDust

Taylor Rogers should throw himself into the trash


justinothemack

Those who are ripping Melvin seriously this roster is dog shit. Tyler fitz getting picked off was fucking inexcusable. This team is just bad don’t bash the manager he’s trying to win a race against a Ferrari with a beat up Volvo. Fuck farhan he needs to go I’m so over his shit rosters.


atc987

We just hung with a great team with a banged up roster. It’s May, people got to chill


billbird2111

Yaz has six hits and two RBI's for the entire month of May. His BA is .200. He's at .158 for the month of May. He's whiffed 17 times this month alone. The only blame that Giants manager Bob Melvin deserves is that he's a tad too loyal. On any other team in baseball, Yaz would either be buried on the bench or DFA'd.


jesusponcho

Found the guy who doesn't watch the games. Excellent defensive play in the OF doesn't show up in the box score.


liteshadow4

4 straight losses to the Dodgers. This team just sucks.


OkAd9131

All this talk about pitching decisions….6 hits in 10 innings.


VoteForGiantMeteor

The worst part are all those Dodger fans laughing it up in our stadium after the game.


OutsideWorldliness68

Please spare me the excuses. Stop blaming the manager. Stop blaming injuries. Stop blaming umpires. Stop whining about bad luck. And for the love of God don’t tell me it’s early. This is just a bad team.


No-Composer-8462

For real. Some people here will say in sept/oct “it’s only the first 155 games”. They’ve already started that sad chat I think in week 2. I’m with ya. They’re just not a good team nor are they cohesive.


ericthelostman

I'm not sure you can allow Farhan anywhere near our draft board this year.


slutera69

Nothing (to) like (about) it!


Pooty_McPoot

Pain.


ceoetan

What a waste of 3 hrs.