SF Giants' freefall continues as losing streak hits five games
There is no sugarcoating the reality.
The Giants, after an 8-3 loss on Saturday night at Coors Field to the Colorado Rockies, have lost five straight games, the second time this season they’ve strung together at least five consecutive losses. They’re on the verge of being swept by the Rockies, a team that finished with an abysmal 119 losses. They’ve lost 10 straight games to divisional opponents.
And at 22-36, they find themselves on pace for 101 losses.
With this latest loss, the Giants are 22-36 for the first time since 1985, the only year in franchise history that San Francisco lost 100 games. This is just the fourth time since the team moved to San Francisco that the team has lost 36 or more of its first 58 games, the other instances being 1972, 1984 and 1985.
“We need to take a little more pride in how we - it’s ideal to not have last night occur, but bounce back. I got the vibe like we were in a position to do that. The first six outs we had at the plate would say that, but getting in a hole makes it a little tougher,” manager Tony Vitello told reporters in Denver.
Right-hander Adrian Houser ended an otherwise solid month with his shortest outing of the season, allowing four earned runs over 3 2/3 innings. Houser grinded through a pair of long innings that ate into his pitch count, throwing 37 pitches in the first inning and 27 more pitches in the third inning.
With Houser turning in his shortest outing of the season, Vitello leaned on left-hander Sam Hentges (1 1/3 innings), JT Brubaker (one inning) and Ryan Borucki (two innings) to all chip in an inning apiece.
“It’s a little tough because there were only so many guys available tonight anyway,” Vitello said. “We’re basically left with a choice to go with Bru after Borucki, but at some point, Borucki was going to have to give us a little bit of length. So, went with Bru and he was sharp and attacked the way you want guys to. Borucki basically needed to do what he did for us.”
Colorado’s right-hander Ryan Feltner, by contrast, breezed through San Francisco’s lineup and turned in his best start of the season, tossing six scoreless innings and only allowing four scattered hits.
The Giants couldn’t get anything going offensively until they were already trailing by eight runs with the game well out of reach. Center fielder Drew Gilbert, starting in place of the injured Harrison Bader, hit a two-run homer in the top of the eighth, and third baseman Matt Chapman drove in a run with an RBI single in the top of the ninth.
“It was tough. We got beat by more than a couple of runs, but I looked up at that American flag; I like our country, first of all, but the small flags in center field don’t tell quite as much of a story as that United States flag in left field,” Vitello said. “And I’m just telling you, the entire game, it was either still or going towards the left-field foul pole. When Bryce (Eldridge) hit the ball, I looked straight up at it, and it was pointing straight at me and anyone else that was in the corner of that dugout.
“So, I don’t think you can call it unlucky, but it just was two innings of hard contact but nothing to show for it. And then from then, I can’t speak for Feltner, but maybe he felt confident and got in a little bit of rhythm. But after those two innings, it kind of ended up being a little bit of a blank feel for us.”
Up next
Left-hander Robbie Ray will take the mound following his two worst outings of the season and try to prevent San Francisco from being swept for a second straight series.
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This story was originally published May 30, 2026 at 8:55 PM.