Giants refuse to be concerned about Logan Webbs recent struggles amid horrendous season

SAN FRANCISCO — There’s a reason why Buster Posey didn’t hesitate before giving a succinct answer when asked last month whether he would be open to trading Logan Webb.“No,” the Giants’ top baseball executive, and a former batterymate of Webb’s, responded.The point-blank public refutation from Posey came amid his staff ace’s historic month of June, but the sentiment behind the statement applies all the same after his backslide to begin July.When you have one of one of the game’s most reliable and durable starting pitchers, you don’t think about trading him, and a little two-start blip out of 148 since 2022 should barely register.And, really, it was more like three bad innings in baseball’s toughest pitching environment, one bout of the toughest luck you’ve ever seen and six shutout, one-hit Webb-as-usual innings.“My first thought coming back into my locker was, ‘I just hate it for him,’ because I don’t think the line score does it justice,” manager Tony Vitello said after their ace put them in an early hole for a second straight start on their way to a 10-0, one-hit loss Wednesday.Webb was tagged for five tough-luck runs in the first inning, after the Rockies pounced on him for seven over three frames his last time out, but Vitello focused on what followed.“He was determined to go back out there and finish the seventh inning.… It’s hard to say, I get it, I see the five [runs] on there, but it was a good day.”It might come off as out of touch following such a dismal loss, but it was the appropriate response.

If Webb made one regrettable pitch, it was a sinker that caught a bit too much of the plate that Kazuma Okamoto just barely deposited on the top of the arcade in right field.It was a grand slam that would have been a home run in only one other ballpark that drove in two runners who reached base despite not hitting the ball harder than 71 mph.For the next six innings, he looked like the guy that was just named NL pitcher o...