Giants beat Padres despite nearly beating themselves

Padres starter Joe Musgrove had been on autopilot through the first three innings and change. He attacked the zone with a bevy of curveballs and cut-fastballs and breaking balls, retiring the first ten Giants batters he faced. He struck out lead off man Grant McCray on three pitches. He K’ed the side in the 3rd, needing just 35 pitches to stroll through three scoreless frames. Again McCray came up empty on a 2-2 curve, this time leading off the 4th—Musgrove’s 6th strikeout in 3.1 innings. Over the airwaves, Jon Miller mused that the quality of the right-hander’s offerings might be no-hit stuff.

On cue, on the very next pitch, right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. lost a routine fly off the bat of…