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The San Francisco Giants lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0, showcasing their struggles with poor at-bats and numerous strikeouts. This follows a dominant performance in the Arizona Complex League where they defeated the Dodgers 29-2.
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Los Angeles, CA - May 13: Luis Arraez #1 of the San Francisco Giants moved to second on a balk by starting pitcher Shohei Ohtani (not pictured) as second baseman Miguel Rojas #72 of the Los Angeles DodgersLooks on in the third inning of a baseball game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (Photo by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images) | MediaNews Group via Getty Images
The Giants beat the Dodgers 29-2 on Wednesday, with their two best players combining to hit 8-8 with a home run, four doubles, four walks, and a stolen base.
Unfortunately, that was in the Arizona Complex League. In the slightly more competitive, and slightly more meaningful Major League Baseball game, the Giants lost to the Dodgers 4-0.
It was a game where San Francisco got up to all their old tricks: feckless at-bats, wasted opportunities, heaps of strikeouts, and, of course, amateur hour blunders.
They wasted no time putting on that ugly show that weâve seen so many times this year. In the first inning, Heliot Ramos drew a two-out walk against Shohei Ohtani (who is apparently the best pitcher in the world now), and Rafael Devers smacked a single to put runners at the corners.
The Giants lost to the Dodgers 4-0 on May 13, 2026.
The Giants won against the Dodgers 29-2 in the Arizona Complex League.
The Giants' two best players combined to go 8-8 with a home run, four doubles, four walks, and a stolen base.
The Giants struggled with poor at-bats, wasted opportunities, and numerous strikeouts during their game against the Dodgers.

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But Bryce Eldridge, with the unenviable task of playing sporadically and seemingly only against aces, struck out on three pitches. It was the first out made with runners in scoring position for the Giants, and they would repeat that feat six more times. They would not get any hits.
From there, Ohtani mostly dominated the Giants. He retired the side in order in the second, and again in the fourth, and again in the fifth. The second of those two occurrences featured three strikeouts and just 12 pitches.
But the authentic sign that this was the Real Giants, and not those pesky imposters who somehow entered the day with four wins in five attempts against the defending champs, came in the seventh inning. The Giants already trailed 4-0, so they werenât looking to erase the lead so much as get back into the game, so theyâd have a chance against whatever non-Ohtani pitchers awaited them.
They gave themselves a chance, when Willy Adames smacked a one-out single, and Matt Chapman followed with one of his own, putting runners at first and second with just one out. Ohtaniâs pitch count had crested triple digits, and the Giants were knocking on the door.
But they wouldnât be the Giants if they didnât do something silly, and not just in the outfield celebration way. Todayâs brand of silliness? Adames forgetting how many outs there were, and taking off with reckless abandon when Drew Gilbert toasted a ball to Andy Pages, who could have jogged the ball back to the infield and still turned the double play.
Inexplicable.
Adames did not shy away from blunder, telling reporters after the game that, âThat obviously is a mistake that canât happen. That mistake is probably the most ashamed that I would feel in a game. I know that that canât happen. It was my fault. Thatâs on me.â
Mistakes happen, but itâs hard not to read too much into it when the mistake is one of that level, but a player of that stature. It feels a touch emblematic for a season that has spent more time going off the rails than coming back on them. And given everything else that has happened this season â and what we know of the ship Buster Posey likes to run â itâs hard not to notice the optics here.
Meanwhile, Robbie Rayâs meatballs proved a tonic for LAâs struggling offense. Namely, for the players who have been struggling the most. The scoring began in the third inning when, a day after Giants ninth-spot hitter Eric Haase hit a pair of dingers, Dodgers ninth-spot hitter Santiago Espinal went deep, on a 2-1 fastball that could not have caught more of the heart of the plate if itâs name was âtee.â And with that, Espinal rounded the bases in a slow trot for the first time in 21 months.
Four pitches later, in the exact same count, Ray threw the exact same pitch, this time to Mookie Betts. The future Hall of Famer has, shockingly, been one of baseballâs worst hitters this year, and if he breaks out in the coming weeks, weâll be able to look back at this moment as why. It was a home run derby pitch, and a home run derby outcome.
Los Angeles would score their other two runs just an inning later, when Kyle Tucker led off with a double and scored on a single by Teoscar HernĂĄndez who, in keeping with the theme, is having a career-worst year at the plate. In doubling down with the theme, HernĂĄndez moved into scoring position on a passed ball by not-Patrick Bailey, and took third when Miguel Rojas hit a single, his first hit since April 26. HernĂĄndez would then score on an Alex Call sacrifice fly.
In all, Ray would make it through just 4.2 innings on the night, ceding seven hits and two walks, while only striking out two. He simply wasnât fooling anyone, and the lone bright spot of the game was how strong the pitching was once Ray left the mound, as Joel Peguero and Tristan Beck handled the rest of the game with ease.
But other than that, it was as ugly as ugly can be. And the way the season has gone, it just might stay that ugly until Josuar GonzĂĄlez and Luis HernĂĄndez save them in a handful of yearsâŠ
Until then, though, thereâs a series to win tomorrow. And that would be a nice thing.