Stephen Ellison

Long Balls, Errors Doom Giants in Loss to Mets

NEW YORK — The Giants have had plenty of rough road trips the past two seasons, but this journey has turned particularly painful. Amid speculation about the timing of Buster Posey’s season-ending surgery and Andrew McCutchen’s status as a Giant, the team went out and lost for the sixth time in seven games.

This one was a 5-3 loss to the Mets with many of the same storylines. The Giants walked off the field a season-high nine games out of first place, with just 34 to go. Here’s what you need to know about this one …

--- Casey Kelly continues to do a pretty good job. In his second start, Kelly gave up four runs over six innings but just two were earned. He struck out four and walked none.

--- Brandon Crawford made two errors in the first two innings, and one of them was costly. Crawford booted a two-out grounder in the second and the Mets would go on to score two runs. The multiple-error game was Crawford’s first since he made three against the Yankees on July 22, 2016, also here in New York.

--- Noah Syndergaard hit 100 mph with his third pitch of the game and was dominant early, but the Giants got a pair off him in the third. Austin Slater, Gorkys Hernandez and Joe Panik had singles in the frame. Those were the only two runs Syndergaard allowed in his six innings. He threw 25 pitches at 99 mph or above.

--- Slater hit his first homer of the year in the seventh, temporarily getting the Giants within one. The blast was estimated at 425 feet.

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