Landen Roupp Nearly Perfect Through Six and the Giants Just Buried Cincinnati's Bullpen in the Seventh

The San Francisco Giants did what they needed to do on Thursday: snap a four-game losing streak and remind the Cincinnati Reds that sometimes a no-hitter bid and a collapsed seventh inning are all it takes. Final score, 3-0, and it felt like a shutout performance built on the back of Landen Roupp's near-flawless stuff and some timely hitting when it mattered most.

Roupp Had Cincinnati Looking Lost Through Six Innings

Landen Roupp (3-1) carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning before P.J. Higgins ripped a line-drive single to left to break it up. That was it for Cincinnati's offense. That single was the only hit the Reds managed all night. Roupp walked two batters, hit two more, and struck out six. The guy was locked in, and the Reds had no answer for him.

Cincinnati starter Chase Burns kept the Giants off the board early, holding San Francisco to just two hits and a walk over six shutout innings with four strikeouts. Burns threw 87 pitches total, 54 for strikes, before exiting the game. But the seventh inning? That's when everything fell apart for the home team.

Three Unearned Runs and It Was Over

The Giants pushed three unearned runs across in the seventh against reliever Brock Burke (1-1), and that was the ballgame. Luis Arraez reached on a fielding error by shortstop Elly De La Cruz to start the inning, then scored on a two-out double by Matt Chapman that one-hopped the fence in left-center. Jung Hoo Lee followed with a bloop single to left-center to plate Chapman and make it 2-0. After Heliot Ramos walked, Casey Schmitt drove in Lee with a single to cap off the onslaught.

Lee had three hits total with an RBI on the night. The damage was done, and Cincinnati never recovered.

Tempers Flared, But Benches Stayed Mostly Civil

Reds reliever Connor Phillips was ejected in the eighth inning by third-base umpire Quinn Wolcott after hitting Willy Adames in the left thigh with a pitch. Phillips had already nearly drilled Adames on the previous pitch, so the ejection made sense. Earlier, Landen Roupp had hit Cincinnati outfielder Spencer Steer in the second inning, and Steer had words with Giants pitcher JT Brubaker during Wednesday's game, so there was some tension simmering throughout.

Things got heated again at the end of the game after left-hander Erik Miller struck out the side in the ninth to earn his first career save. Miller and Sal Stewart exchanged words and pointed fingers, but no punches were thrown. Just two teams letting off some steam on a Thursday afternoon in Ohio.

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