San Francisco, CA-- If there was anything the Mets could hang their ballcaps on this season, it was their ability to stay in most of the games they played.
Not so on Saturday.
The San Francisco Giants scored 14 runs by the fourth inning, and mercifully didn't score again in blowing out the Mets, 14-0 at Candlestick Park.
After four innings, the Giants had 14 runs and 15 hits before their bats either went quiet or got tired, depending on how you look at it.
Abused on the mound were Mets starter Dennis Ribant (2+ innings, seven runs) and second man in Ron Locke (1+ inning, six runs).
"They kicked our (butts) from here to Bakersfield and back," said Mets manager Casey Stengel.
Indeed the Giants did.
Tom Haller's three-run homer in the first capped a four-run opening inning. Willie Mays and Orlando Cepeda each slammed homers in the Giants' five-run third. And the Giants scored five more in the fourth, thanks largely to Jim Davenport's two-run double.
As for the Mets, they managed just four hits off Giants starter Juan Marichal, who pitched a complete game.
Cepeda, Haller and Davenport each had three RBI for the Giants.
The Mets are 4-25, and off on another losing streak, though this one sits at only two games.
Haller's three-run home run capped the Giants' four-run first inning
The worst part is, the Mets still have three more games here before they wrap up the five-game series.
"14-0? I didn't even play in any Little League games that had a score like that," lamented Mets right fielder Jim Hickman afterward.
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Mets record: 4-25, .138 (Last 10: 2-8; streak: L-2); Actual: 9-20
Home: 2-11; Away: 2-14
Runs scored: 72
Runs against: 166
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