Final: Giants 12, Phillies 0
When you haven’t posted a winning record in September since 2017, it’s especially suboptimal to get crushed in your first game of the final month of the season.
But that’s exactly what happened to the Phillies Friday evening, as Gabe Kapler’s San Francisco Giants snapped a seven-game losing streak by throttling Philadelphia in the series opener.
Coming off of a strong month of August, Kyle Gibson turned in his worst start of the season, allowing five hits and walking four over just 1 2/3 innings. The 34-year-old gave up seven runs, with extension candidate Joc Pederson accounting for four of those, including on a three-run home run that landed in McCovey Cove:
Former Giant Sam Coonrod came on in relief of Gibson, and while he got out of the second inning, he only recorded one out in the third inning.