MIAMI — Runs have been hard to come by lately for the San Francisco Giants. The good news is their pitching staff has made it just as difficult for opponents to score.
San Francisco ended May with a major league-best 2.64 ERA while going 14 straight games without scoring more than four runs.
That theme continued in their series against the Miami Marlins, where they took two of three in South Florida. The Giants (33-26) reached the four-run threshold just once, in Sunday’s 4-2 win, while limiting the Marlins to just three runs over the three-game series.
“Any time you win a series on the road you have to feel good about it,” San Francisco manager Bob Melvin said, “especially the way we’ve been scoring runs. We’ll take it. It’d be nice offensively to break out some and put a little distan