Giants blanked in Boston as Red Sox chase Logan Webb in fourth

Giants ace Logan Webb entered Fenway Park with an MLB-best streak of 19 scoreless innings. That stretch quickly ended Tuesday night, and another began: the Red Sox scored a single run in each of the first four innings to chase Webb.

That 4-0 deficit held up as the final score in the Giants’ second shutout loss this season.

So began the Giants’ longest road trip of the season, with upcoming stops in Philadelphia (four games) and Colorado (three games) after this three-game series in Boston, their first visit since 2019.

While the Giants’ bats got silenced by baseball’s best pitching staff, Webb (3-2) appeared to struggle with his grip on the 52-degree evening.

“The change-up was pretty bad. It was either up for a strike or they could sit on it and go the other way, or it was a non-competitive pitch,” Webb told reporters. “It was just one of those nights that was not very good.”

Wilyer Abreu ripped a two-out, RBI triple off the right-field wall in the fourth, marking Webb’s 91st and final pitch of the night. Overall, Webb yielded four runs on nine hits and three walks. His ERA climbed from 2.33 to 2.98, and he exited without a winning decision for a third consecutive start.

“I wouldn’t say it was his best command today,” Giants manager Bob Melvin told reporters. “It’s really odd when you see something like that. At the end of the day, he still has a 2.98 ERA after a game like that. He was able to get outs when he needed to.”

Webb’s counterpart, Cooper Criswell, retired the first 10 batters he faced. He then issued a full-count walk to LaMonte Wade Jr. in the fourth, but Matt Chapman next grounded into a double play.

The Giants managed just four hits, a pair in the fifth by Michael Conforto and Jorge Soler, then two more singles in the ninth by Wilmer Flores and Chapman.

“You only get four hits, and two of them are in the last inning, so it doesn’t look great,” Melvin said. “But (Criswell’s) stuff was really good and we were kind of caught in between which side of the plate we were looking for pitches.”

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