The Giants’ offense, again, was nowhere to be found in a loss to Bruce Bochy and the Rangers.
, Bruce Bochy smiled when asked about all the one-run games he played here over the years. The"torture" was fun sometimes, he admitted, but he much prefers being in charge of a team that leads the Majors in runs.
Bochy's Texas Rangers only scored two of them on Friday, but with the way the Giants are going right now, that didn't matter. They lost 2-1, the lone run coming in the ninth when Heliot Ramos scalded a double 112.7 mph, took third on a misplay and scored on a slow grounder. The Giants now have scored exactly one run in eight of their last 20 games.
A tribute video for Bochy provided the only excitement until the sixth, when Nathaniel Lowe took Ross Stripling into the cove and Mitch Garver followed with a blast halfway up the bleachers in left. The Giants had done nothing offensively to that point, and they finished with just two singles off righty Jon Gray, the former Colorado Rockie. Gray went seven shutout innings before giving way to Aroldis Chapman, who battled some wildness but didn't allow a run.
Chapman walked Patrick Bailey with one out and threw two wild pitches, allowing Bailey to reach third. But Mark Mathias, who had been sent up to pinch-hit for Brandon Crawford, struck out and Luis Matos did the same. Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.It was a rough start to the season for Stripling, so much so that his IL stint ended up being about fixing his mechanics as much as his lower back tightness.
Stripling came on in the second and cruised into the sixth before Lowe and Garver went back-to-back with two outs. He still finished with a solid line: 5 innings, 5 hits, 2 earned runs, 0 walks, 3 strikeouts.
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