The San Francisco Giants (5-9, 4th NL West) pay a visit to LoanDepot Park in South Florida on Tuesday to play the middle game of a three-game series against the Miami Marlins ( 8-8, 3rd NL East). San Francisco was defeated by the Detroit Tigers on Saturday 7-6 and their series ending game against Detroit was postponed due to inclement weather. The Giants have lost three straight. Miami was defeated by the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-0 on Sunday which snapped a four game winning streak for the Marlins. Arizona will play without five pitchers and position players Carson Kelly and Kyle Lewis. Miami will play without seven pitchers as well as position players Avisail Garcia and Joey Wendle.
The San Francisco Giants are 18th in team ERA at 4.37 and improve to 11th in WHIP at 1.29. San Francisco's starting rotation has six Quality Starts which is tied for 10th. San Francisco’s pitching staff is holding opposing hitters to an average .248 which is 14th in baseball. Logan Webb is the leader in strikeouts for San Francisco with 22 and Anthony DeSclafani is the leader ERA for starters with 1.42. Alex Wood gets the nod on the mound Tuesday for San Francisco. This season the left-hander is 0-0 with an ERA of 1.17 with 8 strikeouts.
At the plate, San Francisco has a team batting average of .247 which is 15th in baseball and an on base percentage .331 which is 14th. San Francisco’s slugging percentage is .437 which is sixth best. The Giants have scored 69 runs which is 20th. JD Davis is the leader i n home runs for San Francisco with four and is also the leader in RBI with 13. Three other players have hit three home runs each and Joc Pederson is second in RBI with nine. As a team, San Francisco has hit 17 doubles, one triple and 25 home runs in 14 games.