It took three pitches to spoil a homecoming of sorts for Anthony DeSclafani and send the Giants to a loss Saturday in their second game against the Mets.
DeSclafani surrendered a trio of home runs in the span of four batters in the third inning Saturday, while the Giants’ bats were unable to crack Justin Verlander in a 4-1 loss. San Francisco hasn’t announced its pitching plans for Sunday, when it will attempt to avoid dropping consecutive series for the first time since the first weekend of June.
The Giants, who were held to two runs on five hits for the first seven innings of Friday night’s win, mustered only one run on five hits Saturday. Their come-from-behind win Friday stands as their only game in their past six contests in which they scored more than three runs or recorded more than six hits.
Francisco Alvarez obliterated the first pitch he saw from DeSclafani in the bottom of the third. After retiring the first seven Mets batters in order , DeSclafani started Alvarez with a sinker on the outer half of the plate, and the power-hitting catcher went with the pitch to drive it well over the wall in right-center field, 416 feet away, and sent it screaming at 111.5 mph off the bat.
Brandon Nimmo and Francisco Lindor went back-to-back in their second trips to the plate against DeSclafani. He wouldn’t get a chance to face them a third time, as he was lifted for Sean Manaea after three innings.
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