Lee Jung-hoo goes 1-for-4 as Giants lose 7-6 to Padres at Oracle Park
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- Lee Jung-hoo recorded one hit in four at-bats for the San Francisco Giants in a 7-6 loss to the San Diego Padres at Oracle Park on Saturday, dropping his September batting average to .147.
- The Giants took an early lead but surrendered five consecutive innings of scoring to San Diego.
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Lee Jung-hoo is an outfielder for the San Francisco Giants. The game was played at Oracle Park in San Francisco against the San Diego Padres.
Lee Jung-hoo went 1 for 4 in San Francisco's 7-6 loss to San Diego at Oracle Park on Saturday, leaving him batting .147 in September.
Lee, who started in right field and batted sixth, singled in the seventh inning after going hitless in four at-bats the previous day. He is 5 for 34 in September, with a .279 batting average and .725 OPS for the season.
Lee struck out swinging against Michael King to lead off the second inning and lined out to left in the fourth. With two outs in the seventh, he hit King's first-pitch changeup over the shortstop for a single to center but was stranded.
In his final at-bat, Lee flied out to center against Mason Miller in the ninth on a 100.8 mph fastball.
Rafael Devers gave San Francisco a 2-0 lead with a first-inning home run. Dustin Harris tied it with a two-run single in the second before Shay Whitcomb's solo homer put San Francisco back ahead in the bottom half.
San Diego then scored in five consecutive innings. Jackson Merrill tied the game with a solo homer in the third, and Harris put San Diego ahead with a sacrifice fly in the fourth. Jake Cronenworth added an RBI single in the fifth, and Fernando Tatis Jr. homered in the sixth.
A fielding error by third baseman Whitcomb on a ball hit by Tatis allowed Xander Bogaerts to score in the seventh, extending San Diego's lead to 7-3.
San Francisco cut the deficit to one in the eighth on Drew Cavanaugh's solo homer and Drew Gilbert's two-run shot, but Miller held the lead in the ninth.
