Beede rocked, sent back to minors
SAN DIEGO — The Giants sent Tyler Beede back to the minors after Sunday’s 10-1 loss to the Padres.
He was bummed, but his disappointment about returning to Triple-A Sacramento was superseded by the joy he felt from reaching the big leagues for the first time.
“I’m definitely looking more on the positive side to have the experience to pitch in two bigleague games and certainly hoping I can have more soon,” Beede said. “I’m not drawing the short stick. I’m drawing the big stick.”
Big sticks were the theme all day as the Padres knocked around Beede and an ineffective bullpen, notably Josh Osich and Derek Law. The Giants lost three of four in the series and haven’t won any of their past six series in San Diego, going 0-5-1.
Missing the top three starting pitchers, the Giants’ rotation is nothing like management imagined. Chris Stratton tossed seven scoreless innings in Thursday’s series opener, but Ty Blach, Derek Holland and Beede followed and none lasted more than five innings.
Beede exited in the fourth after giving up five runs on six hits and three walks — two of the walks began San Diego rallies — and was told afterward by manager Bruce Bochy that he was returning to the minors.
Jeff Samardzija, on the disabled list with a pectoral strain, could replace Beede. Early Sunday, Bochy said the righthander likely would make another rehab start after yielding six first-inning runs in a Class A game Saturday. But after the Beede misfire, Bochy left open the possibility of Samardzija returning sooner.
“I don’t want to verify that,” Bochy said. “We just know that Beede needs to go down and continue his progress and work on some things we want him to work on.”
The 14th overall pick in the 2014 draft, Beede needs to limit his walks and be more effective with runners on base. He threw shutout ball the first 22⁄3 innings, then issued a walk, yielded a single and gave up Christian Villanueva’s two-run double.
The Padres pounded Beede again in the fourth in another walk-ignited rally. Cory Spangenberg and Jose Pirela hit run-scoring doubles, and Freddy Galvis’ RBI single ended Beede’s day and brief stay in the big leagues.
“Making pitches with men on base, pitching in traffic. He’s got to polish up some things,” Bochy said. “He’s got to execute that pitch to put them away and make pitches with men in scoring position. That’s what killed us today, they got huge two-out hits, balls hit hard, too. That’s when you’ve got to make your pitches up here.”
In the two starts, Beede gave up seven runs on nine hits and eight walks in 72⁄3 innings.
“I learned a ton,” he said. “There’s a lot of positives to take away from it. I’m not saying they were pretty, but great experiences nonetheless, and I’m looking forward to the next time around.”
Osich gave up a homer to Villanueva and an RBI single to Franchy Cordero. Pirela hit a two-run triple off Law.
The Giants struck out nine times and collected just five hits in six innings off Joey Lucchesi, a lefty out of Newark Memorial High School and Chabot College in Hayward who grew up an A’s fan.
“I never really liked the Giants. I was never a fan,” Lucchesi said. “Striking out the close-to-hometown team feels pretty good.”