Giants Lose the Finale 3-1, Spilt Series to the Cards

After scoring at least one run in the first inning in each of the first three games of the series, the Giants failed to push that streak to four, falling to the Cardinals 3-1.

Instead, the Cardinals decided to take a page out of the Giants’ book. With a runner on first, Carlos Beltran crushed a cutter on the inner half of the plate into the seats. After putting a massive 15 spot on St.Louis last night, the Giants were held to just one run by Adam Wainwright.

The steaming hot Buster Posey extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a leadoff single in the sixth inning. Though Wainwright got Joaquin Arias to swing through a loopy curveball to end the threat.

Madison Bumgarner allowed just three hits on three runs over six innings. Despite recording his sixth straight quality start, his offense wasn’t able to bail him out of his seventh loss of the season.

The Giants put together a one out rally in the top of the fifth. Arias and Bumgarner hit back to back singles. Angel Pagan followed with a four pitch walk to load the bases for Marco Scutaro, who made history last night by driving in a career-high seven runs. He didn’t hit a grand slam for the second consecutive day, but he lined a sacrifice fly into right centerfield to score Arias. Though that’s all the damage the Giants would do against Wainwright on Thursday.

Aside from a mini comeback in the fifth, the other two of the Giants’ five hits were scattered. Scutaro singled in the fourth and Brandon Crawford singled in the sixth.

The Giants had their fair share of opportunities to craft a comeback. But San Francisco went 0-5 with runners in scoring position, and left eight runners on base.

The tying run came to the plate in the ninth, but pinch-hitter Hector Sanchez struck out on a fastball from Jason Motte to end the game.

Overall, the Giants wrapped up a very successful road trip, finishing 5-2. With the loss today, though, they loss a half game on the Dodgers, and could possibly loss ground on the Diamondbacks as well depending on the outcome of their game.

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