{"id":5455,"date":"2026-07-26T05:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=5455"},"modified":"2026-07-26T05:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:06:14","slug":"ray-delivers-six-shutout-innings-in-potential-last-home-start-with-sf-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=5455","title":{"rendered":"Ray delivers six shutout innings in potential last home start with SF Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 If this was Robbie Ray\u2019s last start at Oracle Park as a Giant, then the veteran left-hander left with one resounding final impression.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=5453\">Oakland Roots\u2019 upcoming games at Coliseum in jeopardy after latest missed payment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ray delivered one of his best starts of the season in the Giants\u2019 9-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday afternoon, pitching six shutout innings with five strikeouts to trim his ERA to 3.16. With the Aug. 3 trade deadline looming, there\u2019s a very realistic possibility this was the penultimate start of Ray\u2019s tenure in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t really thought about it. Like I\u2019ve said before, I\u2019m not on social media, so I don\u2019t really see things going on,\u201d Ray said. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to go out there and give my team a chance to win every time. So, whatever happens is going to happen. I\u2019ve been through it before, so it\u2019s not going to be a surprise. But right now, I\u2019m just taking things day by day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re aware that the record is not very positive,\u201d Rafael Devers said through team interpreter Erwin Higueros, hours after he hit a \u00a0three-run home run that capped San Francisco\u2019s four-run fourth inning. \u201cAs far as adjustments that maybe the front office is going to make, it\u2019s something I don\u2019t think about. It\u2019s something that they\u2019re going to have to do, but we\u2019re just concentrating on what we can control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ray\u2019s outing ended after just 80 pitches, the fewest he\u2019s thrown in a start this season. Manager Tony Vitello said he went to his bullpen early due to the score, which was 9-0 when Tristan Beck entered for the seventh. Beck is likely to be optioned when the Giants recall rookie left-hander Carson Whisenhunt for Sunday\u2019s start, so the blowout was an opportunity to get Beck some work before returning to Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>Ray received several assists from right fielder Jung Hoo Lee, who robbed a double by making a leaping catch in the fourth, then threw out a runner attempting to go from first to third in the sixth with a 92.3 mph dart. Along with the defense, Lee capped off a five-run third inning with a three-run homer, his sixth of the season and first since June 23.<\/p>\n<p>Lee was pulled from the game after being hit by a pitch in the bottom of the seventh, but Vitello said he was going to pull Lee anyway with the score being so lopsided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been great in right field all year,\u201d Ray said. \u201cIt\u2019s no surprise. He\u2019s worked really hard on that position. He\u2019s out there all the time taking balls off the wall. How many times this year has he stopped a guy from going to second because he played it right off the wall? He definitely cares and he\u2019s definitely put in the work.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Devers continued to swing a hot bat, going 3-for-4 with four RBIs and hitting his team-leading 22nd home run. Devers sputtered out of the gate, but since May, he\u2019s hitting .268 with 20 home runs and a .922 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=5451\">Jones and Clark help Team Spoon beat Team Coop 129-122 in the WNBA All-Star Game<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a reflection of the adjustments I\u2019ve made, the work that I\u2019ve been doing in the cage,\u201d Devers said. \u201cI think that during the first half of the season, I was pushing myself a little bit. Now, I feel a little bit more comfortable, especially because of that extra work that I\u2019ve been doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Second baseman Luis Arraez, who is also expected to be traded, continued boosting his value by getting two hits, scoring twice and getting an RBI.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants put up five runs in the bottom of the third, scoring their first two runs on RBI singles by Devers and Casey Schmitt. Then Lee delivered his homer that had just enough juice to land in the right-field arcade.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Following their five runs in the third, the Giants\u2019 offense piled on four more in the fourth in Arraez\u2019s RBI single and Devers\u2019 opposite-field blast.<\/p>\n<p>Given a nine-run cushion, Ray attacked the strike zone, held the Angels scoreless and picked up his 23rd win as a Giant. As the deadline approaches, the victory on Saturday could possibly be his last.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a really good leader as far as giving guys advice. It\u2019s not real showy; it\u2019s usually kind of under the radar. He\u2019s been good to me with that stuff,\u201d said manager Tony Vitello said of Ray. \u201cMost of his outings are pretty similar, kind of the label of consistency. So, I would say what he did on the mound up into this point this year and his whole time wearing a Giants uniform is reminiscent of today. So, I think it\u2019s all special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up next<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whisenhunt will be recalled from Triple-A Sacramento and start the Giants\u2019 series finale against the Angels\u2019 Jos\u00e9 Soriano (8-6, 3.43 ERA). Unlike his first two outings, Whisenhunt\u2019s start against Los Angeles will not be a one-and-done. With fellow rookie Trevor McDonald landing on the injured list, Whisenhunt will take his spot in the rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=5449\">Marin beaches get mixed grades in water quality report<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robbie Ray is likely to be dealt to a contender at the Aug. 3 trade deadline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ray delivers six shutout innings in potential last home start with SF Giants - Next City Digest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=5455\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ray delivers six shutout innings in potential last home start with SF Giants - 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