SAN FRANCISCO — It’s never good when there’s a debate to be had over the worst display of baseball. Even worse when the actual worst team in the National League is on one side and doesn’t factor into the conversation.
In Sunday’s 10-3 loss to the Reds, the Giants and their fans will have to decide what was worse: the seven runs allowed in the third after recording two outs, or the three that scored in the fifth because of a brazen lack of effort. It added up to their sixth loss in the past eight games and the second time this season they’ve dropped two of three to Cincinnati.
Anthony DeSclafani, in his second start back from a two-month absence, breezed through two innings and retired two of the first three batters of the third. Then it all fell apart. DeSclafani wouldn’t record another out and was credited with seven runs over 2⅔, raising his ERA to an eye-popping 9.95 through five starts.
