What we learned as Winn, Giants roughed up in loss to Phillies originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
The Giants have played 21,432 games as a franchise. It’s hard to imagine the list of games worse than Saturday’s is very long.
The game was delayed more than an hour by rain, and within a few minutes of the first pitch, it became clear that a rainout would have been the best thing to happen to San Francisco. Starting pitcher Keaton Winn got knocked out in the bottom of the first, the Philadelphia Phillies sent 18 runners to the plate in the first two innings, and the Giants lost a catcher to injury for the second straight day.
They lost 14-3, and that doesn’t at all sum up how rough a night it was.
Pitching in the rain, Winn threw 39 pitches in the first before he was pulled. The Phillies kept piling on against long man Mitch White, and they led 9-0 after two innings.
To add injury to insult, San Francisco lost catcher Tom Murphy to a left knee injury during the four-run second. Murphy went to his knees on a spiked curveball in the dirt and immediately went back to the dugout, where Patrick Bailey was sitting in a hoodie a few hours after he went on the 7-day concussion IL.
