Giants' freefall continues as losing streak hits 5 games

Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News on May 31, 2026

Published in Baseball

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There is no sugarcoating the reality.

The San Francisco Giants, after an 8-3 loss on Saturday night at Coors Field to the Colorado Rockies, have lost five straight games, the second time this season they’ve strung together at least five consecutive losses. They’re on the verge of being swept by the Rockies, a team that finished with an abysmal 119 losses. And at 22-36, they find themselves on pace for 101 losses.

With this latest loss, the Giants are 22-36 for the first time since 1985, the only year in franchise history that San Francisco lost 100 games. This is just the fourth time since the team moved to San Francisco that the team has lost 36 or more of its first 58 games, the other instances being 1972, 1984 and 1985.

Right-hander Adrian Houser ended an otherwise solid month with his shortest outing of the season, allowing four earned runs over 3 2/3 innings. Houser grinded through a pair of long innings that ate into his pitch count, throwing 37 pitches in the first inning and 27 more pitches in the third inning.

Colorado’s right-hander Ryan Feltner, by contrast, breezed through San Francisco’s lineup and turned in his best start of the season, tossing six scoreless innings and only allowing four scattered hits.

The Giants couldn’t get anything going offensively until they were already trailing by eight runs with the game well out of reach. Center fielder Drew Gilbert, starting in place of the injured Harrison Bader, hit a two-run homer in the top of the eighth, and third baseman Matt Chapman drove in a run with an RBI single in the top of the ninth.

Up next

Left-hander Robbie Ray will take the mound Sunday at 3:10 p.m. ET following his two worst outings of the season and try to prevent San Francisco from being swept for a second straight series.

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