Giants score one run against Reds en route to third straight loss

Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News on Apr 14, 2026

Published in Baseball

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CINCINNATI — Even at the hitter-friendly confines of Great American Ball Park, the San Francisco Giants’ offense remains stagnant.

The Giants (6-11) dropped their third straight game with a 2-1 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday evening, their third straight game in which they’ve been held to two runs or fewer.

Shortstop Willy Adames accounted for the Giants’ lone run of the game with a solo homer in the fifth, his third home run of the season. It was Adames’ ninth career long ball at Great American Ball Park, the most at any venue where he hasn’t played his home games.

Second baseman Luis Arraez went 3 for 4, all singles, after missing Sunday’s game due to being kicked in his right hand, his sixth multi-hit game of the season.

Left-hander Robbie Ray (2-2) allowed two runs on a pair of solo homers over five innings, his shortest outing of the season. Ray recorded six strikeouts but walked four batters, his third straight start in which he’s walked at least three batters.

The Reds opened the scoring in the bottom of the third with a solo homer by Spencer Steer that barely cleared the left-center field, then doubled that lead to 2-0 in the bottom of the fourth with an opposite-field solo home run by Sal Stewart.

Adames got San Francisco on the scoreboard in the top of the fifth with a solo homer of his own, cutting the Giants’ deficit to 2-1 with his third home run of the season.

San Francisco’s bullpen kept the Giants in the game as right-handers Caleb Kilian, Keaton Winn and Ryan Walker threw a scoreless inning apiece.

Right-hander Tyler Mahle, who was drafted by the Reds and spent six seasons with Cincinnati, makes his first start against his former team on Wednesday night (6:40 p.m. PT) at Great American Ball Park. Through three starts with the Giants, Mahle is 0-2 with a 4.30 ERA (4.35 FIP) and 15 strikeouts over 14 2/3 innings. Going against Mahle will be right-hander Rhett Lowder (1-1, 3.31 ERA), who has never faced the Giants.

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