7:15 pm
July 9

Giants @ Padres

Who will WIN this matchup?

San Francisco Giants (41-41)

@ San Diego Padres (49-36)

 

Starting Pitchers:

Rodon (SF): 7-5; 2.87 ERA

Darvish (SD) 7-4; 3.53 ERA

 

Current odds:

San Francisco Giants: (-110)

San Diego Padres: (-110)

 

• Going into Saturday’s game with the Padres in San Diego, the Giants haven’t been under .500 since the first week of the 2021 season — better than any other team. After losing the first two games of this four-game series, the Giants have gone 1-8 over their past nine games and 4-14 over their past 18 to fall to 41-41. One more loss and the streak ends.

• Rodon is coming off his worst outing in nearly two months. On Monday at Arizona, Rodon gave up four runs on five hits and two walks, with seven strikeouts in five innings of a 8-3 loss. Afterward, Rodon was critical of himself and the Giants at large. Over his four previous starts, Rodon had allowed two runs on 14 hits and six walks with 30 strikeouts in 27 innings. That’s a 0.67 ERA. Rodon faced the Padres once earlier this season, holding San Diego to two runs on five hits and four walks over six innings in a May 21 game in San Francisco that the Padres won 2-1. That was Rodon’s only career appearance against the Padres.

• Darvish will be facing the Giants for the second time this season. His first outing in San Francisco also happened to be one of the worst starts in Darvish’s 227-start career. On April 12, in his second outing of the season, Darvish gave up nine runs on eight hits and two walks in just 1 2/3 innings. Darvish has a 2-2 career record against the Giants with a 7.13 ERA over eight starts.

• Meantime, Padres manager Bob Melvin spoke about Manny Machado, who has homered in each of the past two games against the Giants. It was announced Friday that Machado will start at third base for the National League in the All-Star Game. “All-Star, yes,” Melvin said. “He’s putting together a MVP type season.”

4/10
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San Francisco Giants
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