Sean Manaea and company would have needed to be perfect to beat the Giants tonight. Manaea, in the four innings he pitched, was perfect, but some of the guys behind him weren’t, and in an evening in which the A’s couldn’t buy a hit after the fifth inning, it wouldn’t be enough, as the Giants win 3-0.
The first two Giants that Manaea would face threatened to get on the board early with hard and deep line drives to center and left field, but good positioning and fielding from Rajai Davis and Jaff Decker turned those deep drives into outs and kept the Giants off of the basepaths in the first.