Landen Roupp’s stellar start vanished as the San Francisco Giants' bats went cold and a disastrous bullpen implosion allowed the Detroit Tigers to cruise to victory.
Things did not go according to plan for the San Francisco Giants as they were on the wrong end of an 8-0 score on Saturday, Aug. 8.
The Detroit Tigers took care of business in a 10-hit game. Keep in mind, the Tigers out-hit the Giants by eight, the same number that happens to be how many runs they scored against them.
All things considered, Landen Roupp put this team in an incredible position to win the game. Roupp fell to 7-11 on the year as he got no run support, but he only allowed one earned run on two hits in 5.1 innings.
Sure, he's now dropped each of his last three starts, but this was the best he's looked in quite some time. At the end of the day, Willy Adames and recently called-up Eddys Leonard were the only two players to record a hit in this abysmal loss.
Roupp's quality start was all for nothing
All eight runs that the Tigers scored were earned, and seven of those came from the final three relievers in this game. When Roupp was pulled at 5.1 innings, manager Tony Vitello had Keaton Winn replace him.
Winn did his job as he recorded the final two outs of the inning. He was pulled after that, only for Trenton Harris to blow things up.
Harris, 27, has an 81.00 ERA and 9.00 WHIP on the season. The rookie made his first appearance in this game, and he allowed three runs on three hits in just 14 pitches. Vitello had no choice but to pull the North Carolina native, someone who was only able to give this team one out.
From there, things somehow only got worse. Poor bullpen pitching was contagious for this team as Reiver Sanmartin's ERA on the year rose to 11.81 as he allowed three runs to score on four hits.
Sanmartin ended up getting the Giants out of the inning, but by that point, they trailed 7-0.
In the end, Carson Seymour needed 46 pitches to get out of the final two innings. Throwing strikes was an issue as he walked three batters, and this came just a few innings after Roupp walked five himself.
Offensively, only three Giants batters reached base. Other than the aforementioned hits, Drew Cavanaugh drew their only walk of the game. Their first seven batters of the game were retired before Cavanaugh got on base, and then Rafael Devers spoiled Adames' single in the fourth by grounding into a double play. That would spark a streak of 12 straight Giants players to be retired before Leonard's eighth-inning single.
