Mar 27, 2026
BOX SCORE SAN FRANCISCO — Opening Day 2.0 was somehow even worse than the first one.  The Giants managed just one hit Friday at Oracle Park, losing 3-0 to the New York Yankees and setting a franchise record for the fewest hits (four) through the first two games of a season. For the first ti me in franchise history, they were blanked in their first two games.  The game was scoreless all around until the sixth, when the Yankees got a pair of very loud homers from guys who once decided they did not want to play in San Francisco. Aaron Judge was hitless in his first seven at-bats of the series with five strikeouts, but the Giants went at him with the go-ahead run on second and he blasted a 3-2 fastball from Robbie Ray just inside the pole in left. Two batters later, Giancarlo Stanton (who once used his no-trade clause to nix a deal to the Giants) hit a 414-foot homer on a hanging slider from right-hander Jose Butto.  The Giants did absolutely nothing against hard-throwing right-hander Cam Schlittler and wasted a leadoff walk from Matt Chapman in the seventh. Camilo Doval buzzed through the bottom of the lineup in the eighth, striking out former teammates Heliot Ramos, Casey Schmitt and Patrick Bailey. The Giants struck out 13 times overall. One Mistake Ray had to work out of a couple of early jams. A misplay by Willy Adames put two on with two outs in the second, but Randal Grichuk hit a soft liner to Schmitt at first base. With a runner on second and two outs in the fourth, Ray blew a fastball past Jazz Chisholm Jr.  Ray’s pitch count was getting up there through four, but he had a quick fifth and came out for the heart of the lineup in the sixth. Longtime Giants-killer Paul Goldschmidt led off with a double down the right field line, setting the stage for Judge. Ray ended up getting charged with two earned runs on five hits in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out four and walked none while leaning heavily on a slider that got eight swinging strikes.  All in all, Ray looked pretty similar to the pitcher who dominated for most of the first half last season, not the one who ran out of gas down the stretch.  Overwhelmed  Schlittler jumped onto the scene nationally last October when he struck out 12 Red Sox in a postseason game and he was just as dominant Friday.  The 25-year-old averaged 98.5 mph on his four-seamer and got 11 whiffs on that pitch, his sinker and his cutter. Seven of his eight strikeouts came on a pitch that was 95 mph or above. The only hit off Schlittler was a Ramos double, and really, the only positive for the Giants was the fact that he was limited to 68 pitches in his first outing of the season. With Gerrit Cole (Tommy John) and Carlos Rodón (elbow surgery) due back at some point to join Schlittler and Max Fried, the Yankees are going to have a terrifying rotation.  History! Tony Vitello was surprised that none of his players challenged a pitch in Wednesday’s opener, and when he went back and rewatched the game, he found a few pitches that he would have liked a second look at. For seven innings Friday, the Giants again seemed to forget that they have an ABS system now, but that changed in the top of the eighth.  Catcher Patrick Bailey challenged a 2-0 pitch from lefty Ryan Borucki that was called a ball and a replay confirmed that home plate umpire Chad Fairchild got it right. The pitch was .7 inches off the plate. Three pitches later, Bailey got on the board.  A low slider from Borucki to Chisholm was called a ball and Bailey immediately tapped his helmet. This time, he won, putting Chisholm in an 0-2 hole. Chisholm hit into a force on the next pitch, keeping the Yankees from bringing an insurance run across.  Download and follow the Giants Talk Podcast This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser. ...read more read less
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