Giants observations:

Loss includes few rules, maskless fan collisions, injury.

PHOENIX — Are there any rules this spring? Do pitchers statistics mean anything when they can pop in and out of games and when their toughest innings end before the third out is recorded?

Welcome to pandemic spring No. 2, where attendance considerations vary from park to park, mask usage is erratic and even when nineinning games are scheduled, the innings themselves might not be completed. The Giants’ 137 loss to Brewers on Tuesday came on such a day, as maskless fans plowed into each other chasing Steven Duggar’s homer in the second inning, Milwaukee starter Adrian Houser left this vague approximation of baseball and reentered later, and there were five “rolling” innings.

“We saw all around this was not a great baseball game,” Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell said, noting that windy conditions didn’t help.

“We did not play a good baseball game today,” Giants manager Gabe Kapler said. “We did not play a crisp game. There are a lot of fundamental things we absolutely have to clean up.”

Houser exited with two on and two outs in the first after giving up a run and hitting his pitch count for the inning. Instead of rolling the inning, the Brewers brought in reliever Jake Cousins, which meant Giants starter Alex Wood had a lengthy wait before he took the mound.

“Sitting there for 25 minutes wasn’t ideal, but nature of the beast,” Wood said. “I think there should be a rule that you have to roll a long inning in the first in spring training and after that, do what you want, because it's all relievers . ...

“To have to sit that long, almost 30 minutes, for your second start of spring training was a little bit tough. So I don't love rolling it, but there are some situations it’s called for.”

Houser came back in to start the second (“A little weird for sure,” Wood said) and gave up Duggar’s homer, which inspired a collision beyond the fence in leftcenter that nearly got a little girl trampled.

Wood gave up a homer to Omar Narváez to start the second, then Orlando Arcia doubled and, with one out, Wood walked Daniel Robertson. That’s where he hit his pitch limit, so the inning ended; Kapler said he doesn’t want to have pitchers face a fresh batter once they’ve passed the 25pitch mark for the inning.

The next inning, Milwaukeelefthander Eric Lauer recorded no outs and the inning ended when Joe McCarthy smoked a tworun drive off the wall in center. Lauer was back out for the fourth and managed to record two outs before the inning was rolled, though the Giants added another run on a wild pitch that allowed Duggar to score.

In the box score, you’ll note that Lauer is credited with working two innings, though he retired only two hitters. He also walked five of the nine men he faced.

Avisaíl García and Christian Yelich both homered off Sam Selman in the fifth, and Yelich’s blast set off another group chase beyond the fence, some with masks, some without.

The game wasn’t ideal in any way for the Giants, who lost outfielder Luis Alexander Basabe to a left wrist injury in the eighth. Basabe landed awkwardly while diving for a drive by Mario Feliciano. Minorleague catcher Patrick Bailey wound up playing first in the subsequent shuffle after Basabe exited.

Kapler said that the Giants were still getting Basabe examined after the game.

⏩ Another big day for top outfield prospect Heliot Ramos, who clobbered a homer to the back of the grass in leftcenter and also delivered an RBI double in the third. He’s 7for17 (.412) with a 1.412 OPS this spring.

⏩ Duggar had three walks to go with his second homer of the spring, and Alex Dickerson, who hit leadoff, had two hits and a walk. McCarthy, who had one hit in his first five games, collected two hits and drove in two runs.

⏩ Selman and Matt Wisler each gave up two runs in their single innings of work, and Kervin Castro, who’d been impressive his first two times out, allowed three runs. Gregory Santos allowed four runs in his twothirds of an inning.

⏩ Aaron Sanchez threw another live batting practice; Kapler said he will be worked into a game soon.