
Offensive woes, solid start by Tampa Bay Rays' Shane McClanahan sink San Francisco Giants 3-0.
Maybe the San Francisco Giants need to figure out how to get their offense in gear. For the seventh time already in the young 2026 MLB season, the Giants were shut out as the Tampa Bay Rays got a 3-0 victory at Tropicana Field on Friday night.
Rays starter Shane McClanahan threw six shutout innings and boosted his season record to 3-2. Robbie Ray was not bad for the Giants, going 6 1/3 innings and allowing just four hits, three runs (all earned), didn't give up a walk, and struck out five. JT Brubaker came on to pitch the final 1 2/3 innings and kept the Rays' bats in check.
But Ray did give up two home runs, solo shots by Tampa Bay's Yandy Diaz in the second inning and Junior Caminero in the fourth inning.
Tampa Bay added a run in the sixth inning to go up 3-0.
Bryan Baker picked up his eighth save for the Rays.
Six Giants players had hits -- Luis Arraez, Casey Schmitt, Rafael Devers, Willy Adames, Jung Hoo Lee, and Patrick Bailey. That was the extent of the San Francisco offense.
Devers getting a hit is a good sign as he's been trying to get going offensively. Earlier this week, Devers talked about his offensive woes with Giants beat reporter Maria Guardado of MLB.com.
“Why should I be frustrated?” Devers said through an interpreter. “It’s my job. It’s the only one I know how to do. There are always going to be ups and downs. Those are things that happen throughout everyone’s career.”
Neither the Giants nor the Rays had a lot of baserunners in Friday night's game. For the Giants, they were 1-for-3 with runners in scoring position and left just three runners on base. The Rays only had one runner left on base.
Rays shortstop Taylor Walls went 2-for-3 with a run scored.
With the loss, San Francisco falls to 13-19 on the season and sits in fifth place in the National League West Division. The Rays go to 19-12, sitting in second place in the American League East Division.
Entering Friday night's game, the Giants were coming off being swept in a doubleheader in Philadelphia.
Giants fans might be wondering if manager Tony Vitello needs to adjust his lineup at this point. San Francisco didn't want to be in the lower part of the division this season. And, while it is still early in the 2026 MLB season, the Giants find themselves in the lower part of the NL West.
The Giants and Rays will get after it again on Saturday night, then wrap up the three-game series on Sunday. San Francisco returns home to Oracle Park on Monday night and open a three-game series against their NL West rivals, the San Diego Padres.
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