Yu Darvish shut down the Giants’ offense and Logan Webb couldn’t get Jackson Merrill out as the San Diego Padres

Jackson Merrill leads San Diego offense with three hits

For the first three-and-a-half months of the season, the Giants maintained their home-field advantage at Oracle Park. With a 4-1 loss to the San Diego Padres on Monday night at Oracle Park, the Giants have now lost 12 of their last 14 games at home.

Jake Cronenworth broke a seventh-inning tie with an RBI single, Freddy Fermin followed with a two-run homer and the San Diego Padres rewarded Yu Darvish's sharp effort with a 4-1 road victory over the San Francisco Giants on Monday. Jackson Merrill chipped in with an RBI double and two singles for the Padres, who opened a 11-day stretch of seven games against the Giants with a win that created eight games of separation between the second- and third-place teams in the National League West.

SAN FRANCISCO -- - Jake Croneworth hit a go-ahead RBI single in the seventh and Freddy Fermin followed with a two-run homer off Logan Webb as the San Diego Padres backed Yu Darvish in a 4-1 win over the San Francisco Giants on Monday night. Darvish (2-3) struck out six and didn't walk a batter over six innings, allowing one run on four hits in his seventh start of the season. The right-hander missed more than three months to start the year because of elbow issues. He didn't make his first start until July 7. Robert Suarez finished for his MLB-leading 33rd save. Gavin Sheets doubled leading off the seventh and pinch-runner Bryce Johnson entered, scoring the go-ahead run in San Diego's third straight

Jake Croneworth hit a go-ahead RBI single in the seventh and Freddy Fermin followed with a two-run homer off Logan Webb as the San Diego Padres backed Yu Darvish in a 4-1 win over the San Francisco Giants on Monday night. Darvish (2-3) struck out six and didn't walk a batter over six innings, allowing one run on four hits in his seventh start of the season. Robert Suarez finished for his MLB-leading 33rd save.

There was a world in which Carlos Correa and Matt Chapman could have been San Francisco Giants teammates. Correa has been doing much more watching lately. At the trade deadline, the Minnesota Twins dealt Correa back to the Houston Astros and he agreed to make the transition to third base in the wake of an injury to Isaac Paredes.

All Times EDT East Division W L Pct GB Philadelphia 69 49 .585 — New York 63 55 .534 6 Miami 57 61 .483 12 Atlanta 51 67 .432 18 Washington 47 71 .398 22 Central Division W L Pct GB Milwaukee 74 44 .627 — Chicago 67 50 .573 6½ Cincinnati 62 58 .517 13 St. Louis 61 59 .508 14 Pittsburgh 51 69 .425 24 West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 68 51 .571 — San Diego 67 52 .563 1 San Francisco 59 60 .496 9 Arizona 57 62 .479 11 Colorado 30 88 .254 37½ ___ Sunday's Games Atlanta 7, Miami 1 Cincinnati 14, Pittsburgh 8 Milwaukee 7, N.Y. Mets 6 Philadelphia 4, Texas 2 Washington 8, San Francisco 0 Arizona 13, Colorado 6 San Diego 6, Boston 2 Toronto 5, L.A. Dodgers 4 St. Louis 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Monday's Games

Logan Webb vs. Yu Darvish

In early 2018, Andrew McCutchen was traded along with some cash to the San Francisco Giants. Reynolds has probably been disappointing on the whole. In 2023, McCutchen returned to the team after a very brief foray with the NY Yankess later in 2018, a three year stint with the Phillies, and another year with thew Brewers. Back when there were two trade deadlines, McCutchen was sent on 31 August 2018 after 130 games, again with cash, for something or other in return.

The San Francisco Giants once again gave fans very few reasons to get on their feet in their loss Monday night at Oracle Park.

The weekend on the farm.

Depleted by trades and injuries, the Baltimore Orioles have bolstered their outfield by reuniting with a veteran who was briefly on their active roster last season. On Monday afternoon, the Orioles announced they had claimed outfielder Daniel Johnson off waivers from the San Francisco Giants.

Last Friday, outfielder Drew Gilbert got the call of a lifetime. It was the San Francisco Giants, and they were informing him that he was going to be added to the MLB roster. Following an injury to Jerar Encarnacion, who will be out 4-6 weeks, the 24-year-old would be making his first appearance in The Show. In his debut, he was the starting rightfielder, going 0-for-4 in his team's 5-0 victory over the Washington Nationals.

Giants ace Logan Webb cruised through five innings before the San Diego Padres got to him in San Francisco's 4-1 loss Monday at Oracle Park.

The San Francisco Giants designated outfielder Daniel Johnson for assignment last week when they needed to make room on their roster for outfielder Drew Gilbert. Acquired from the New York Mets as part of the return package for Tyler Rogers ahead of the MLB trade deadline along with right-handed pitchers Blade Tidwell and Jose Butto, Gilbert reported to Triple-A Sacramento at first.

Justin Verlander is MLB's active strikeout king, but he doesn't plan to hang up his cleats just yet. The 3-time Cy Young winner is now 41 years old, but he recently told reporters he plans pitch in 2026 in what would be his 21st MLB season. Verlander is in his first season with the San Franciso Giants, and while his 1-9 record and 4.53 ERA in 99 1/3 innings is far from “Must See JV,” he did record his 3,500th strikeout on Sunday, becoming just the 10th pitcher in MLB history to do so.

The Washington Nationals were able to win their most recent series against the San Francisco Giants, but this is a team that has a lot of issues. As expected at the trade deadline, the Nationals were one of the top sellers, moving most of their veterans on expiring deals. Since 2019, Washington has been one of the worst teams in baseball, and despite a couple of attempts to burst out of their rebuild, it hasn't happened. Despite James Wood emerging as a true young star, there isn't much else to be optimistic about.

A three-game series against a division rival that only a month ago had a lot of heat to it. But now?

The San Francisco Giants do not exactly have a top tier farm system when compared to some of their rivals across baseball. Considered by most to be one of the bottom groups of prospects in the National League and MLB as a whole, the depth is simply not there from top to bottom of the top-30. The one saving grace of this farm system though just so happens to be one of baseball's best prospects and future star sluggers in power hitting first baseman Bryce Eldridge. A 2023 first round pick, Eldridge climbed to Triple-A Sacramento this season at just 20 years old to become the youngest player in the Pacific League.