Giants look overmatched in 10-0 loss Dylane Cease, Blue Jays

SAN FRANCISCO — Technically, both starting pitchers went more than four innings without allowing a hit Wednesday afternoon at Oracle Park.But, in the Giants’ case, it only came after their guy had put them in a five-run hole.Logan Webb rebounded to retire 13 in a row at one point, but Dylan Cease left the Giants guessing from the get-go and kept them quiet for even longer.The Blue Jays’ starter had five runs to play with when he took the mound and didn’t mess around, retiring the first 14 hitters he faced and not yielding a hit until the ninth.One hit didn’t matter much in the grand scheme of a demoralizing 10-0 loss.On the other hand, never has a single meant so much.A day after they were stymied by a pitcher they left unprotected in the Rule 5 draft, the Giants nearly found a new level of futility against a pitcher they decided against pursuing this past winter. In the 26-year history of the Giants’ waterfront ballpark, the home crowd had never gone home without witnessing a hit from the home team, and Heliot Ramos made sure that continued to be the case, lining the third pitch of the ninth — Cease’s 118th — into center field for a single.Cease, who signed a seven-year, $210 million deal in Toronto, struck out 11, walked three and walked off the mound to a standing ovation from fans of both sides after surrendering his first and only hit.The Giants never had a chance to climb out of the 5-0 hole they were in after the top of the first.Coming off the worst start of his career, Webb immediately put himself in a bases-loaded jam in the top of the first, allowing four of the first five batters to reach.Okamoto cashed them all in on one swing, giving the Blue Jays a 5-0 lead before the Giants even came to bat.The start mirrored the way Webb’s lasting outing began, yielding three early runs to the Rockies en route to a 15-3 loss, but in this case, Webb didn’t allow the damage to snowball.He won a nine-pitch at-bat against Andres Gimenez to begin ...