Ray caps off best month of career, takes loss as Marlins silence Giants

Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News on May 31, 2025

Published in Baseball

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The San Francisco Giants couldn’t ask more of Robbie Ray. Seven innings, one run, nine strikeouts — all of which amounted to a seventh consecutive quality start.

On an evening where the offense couldn’t muster a single run, Ray couldn’t avoid taking his first loss of the season.

Despite Ray’s excellence, the Giants lost to the Miami Marlins, 1-0, on Saturday afternoon at LoanDepot Park as the offense — due in part to two excellent defensive plays by Miami — couldn’t cash in on numerous opportunities to score. San Francisco has now gone 13 consecutive games without scoring more than four runs, the longest such streak since 1988.

Ray finished May with a 1.38 ERA over six starts with 45 strikeouts over 39 innings, the lowest ERA he’s ever posted in a calendar month in his career. The left-hander has now recorded seven consecutive quality starts, allowing eight runs over 46 innings (1.57 ERA) with 53 strikeouts over this stretch.

Ray’s efforts would’ve been rewarded with a victory on most days, but not on a day where the Giants left 11 men on base and finished 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position. Two of those missed opportunities, though, were a product of stellar defense from Miami.

In the top of the fourth, second baseman Tyler Fitzgerald sent a deep drive to the left-field warning track, but left fielder Heriberto Hernandez made a leaping catch to take away extra bases — and a potential home run.

In the seventh, Jung Hoo Lee sent a changeup from Ronny Henriquez to center field that would’ve easily scored Heliot Ramos from first base had it landed, but center fielder Dane Myers made a leaping catch — banging into the wall in the process — to save a run.

San Francisco’s inability to score a single run wasn’t entirely a product of Miami’s defense.

In the first, the Giants loaded the bases but ended the frame without a run to their name as Willy Adames and Mike Yastrzemski struck out. In the sixth, reliever Ronny Henriquez entered for starter Edward Cabrera and struck out Tyler Fitzgerald to strand runners on first and second with two outs. Two innings later, San Francisco put runners on first and second with one out, but Yastrzemski flew out and Fitzgerald struck out.

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