Cain dazzles, but still takes loss
04/10/2007 12:37 AM ET
Cain dazzles, but still takes loss
Hurler takes no-hitter into seventh before giving up lone run
By Chris Haft / MLB.com
SAN DIEGO -- Another of Matt Cain's flirtations with baseball immortality
disintegrated into just another Giants defeat Monday night, a 1-0 setback in
the opener of a three-game series against the San Diego Padres.
Cain (0-1), who made several serious bids at pitching a no-hitter last season,
did so again before 31,388 at PETCO Park. The right-hander held San Diego
hitless through six innings before Khalil Greene lined Cain's 100th pitch of
the evening down the left-field line for a clean double leading off the
seventh inning.
That helped the Padres break a scoreless tie. After Cain walked Russell
Branyan, Jose Cruz Jr. bunted the runners ahead before pinch-hitter Geoff
Blum's sacrifice fly sent home Greene.
The Giants, who have scored 14 runs in seven games, maintained their offensive
futility against Chris Young (1-0), who worked seven innings, and relievers
Cla Meredith and Trevor Hoffman, who extended the San Diego bullpen's season-
opening scoreless-innings streak to 20 2/3.
San Francisco wasted leadoff doubles by Randy Winn in the third inning and
Bengie Molina in the seventh.
The Giants (1-6) matched their worst seven-game start in San Francisco club
history, a mark they previously reached in 1967 and 1980. The 1967 Giants were
the only team to open 1-7 since the franchise moved to San Francisco in 1958.
Chris Haft 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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