Schmidt, Giants drubbed by Brewers
07/18/2006 2:40 AM ET
Schmidt, Giants drubbed by Brewers
All-Star's winless streak reaches seven games
By Rich Draper / MLB.com
Jason Schmidt hasn't won a game since striking out 16 batters on June 6.
(Ben Margot/AP)
SAN FRANCISCO -- For Giants pitcher Jason Schmidt, the beat sadly goes on.
It's an incessant, off-key rhythm for the right-hander, who despite relative
efficiency at times has routinely been rewarded with a stream of frustrating
losses and no-decisions.
Here he is, the winningest pitcher in San Francisco history, who had yielded
two earned runs or less in 11 of his previous 13 starts, yet hasn't won a game
since June 6 and saw his winless streak reach seven games in a 10-1 loss to
Milwaukee on Monday at AT&T Park.
It was seemingly his season's nadir, and maybe the Giants' as well.
This time it was Schmidt -- fully rested after not pitching in the All-Star
Game and having his slated Sunday start pushed back to Monday -- far off his
game, as he yielded a season-high 10 hits and eight runs over six-plus innings
.
The tall right-hander has had a mix of bad luck and good outings in his
winless stretch, but he hasn't reached double figures in strikeouts since
whiffing a record 16 batters in a 2-1 victory over Florida.
Funny, but Schmidt struck out the side in the third and retired the side in
order in the fourth, but his game soured suddenly after that, the Brewers
routing him with six earned runs over the next two-plus frames, including a
three-run homer by Bill Hall in the sixth.
"It looks like he lost it there," said manager Felipe Alou. "There were uphill
fastballs and breaking balls that didn't go down to the strike zone. He
didn't have the same stuff. The good breaking ball he had earlier didn't
happen anymore, [or] the good life on the fastball and changeup."
The Giants have dropped three straight games and seven of their last 10, and
Alou is admittedly discouraged.
"I can't lie, it hurts," he said of the club's 1-3 post-break mark. "We just
didn't look fresh, coming back from the break. You know, the break is the
break. Even when you have a job, you take a lunch, you're supposed to come
back in an hour or 30 minutes fresh."
San Francisco's offense was lifeless, managing only four hits overall, didn't
score with the bases loaded and none out in the sixth and was 0-for-6 with
runners in scoring position.
Barry Bonds grounded out and walked twice, and Moises Alou went 0-for-3 and
dismayed his father-manager by swinging and missing on a 3-0 fastball -- a
rarity -- by Rick Helling in the sixth.
Randy Winn's double and subsequent sacrifice fly by Pedro Feliz in the fourth
off Brewers starter Zach Jackson accounted for the lone Giants run.
"It was just one of them nights -- I should have stayed home," said Schmidt,
who admitted his game plan was possibly a faulty one. "Obviously you want to
win and you want the team to win and pitch well. You can walk out of there a
little better when you feel like you've done your job.
"Tonight," said Schmidt, "I can't walk out of there and say that."
There still is life on the Giants, but it appears shortstop Omar Vizquel is
the only one with flair and upbeat play at the moment. He tried to make things
happen, stretching a hit into a double in the first inning then stole third
moments later.
Vizquel, who also singled to lead off the sixth but died on third, was not
happy with the lack of enthusiasm and zest this weekend or in Monday's game.
He said players need to pick up their games, do what he called "weird" stuff
-- unexpected bunts, go for extra bases -- to spark the offense.
"I don't know which was worse, the seventh-inning singer [who sang "Take Me
Out to the Ballgame"] or the game," quipped Vizquel. "I think there are a lot
of guys who are still thinking about the break.
"You can't tell them what to do -- you just try to do your best and see if
everybody else picks up the pace. Nothing is working. The pitching's not there
, the hitting's not there. It looks like everything is dead."
Well, not everything. Vizquel chuckled over the sausage race, when Giants
mascot Lou Seal toppled several of the famous guests from Milwaukee off their
feet.
"That was the best thing about today's game," he said.
Rich Draper is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the
approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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