Johnny Cueto fights back as the Cardinals blow up the Giants

SAN FRANCISCO – Johnny Cueto and Orlando Cepeda made highly anticipated returns to AT & T Park on Thursday night, but the Giants pitcher did not give much courage to the legend of the Giants and Hall of Famer .

Cueto, in His first major league game since April 28th after retiring from the 60-day injury list allowed five badists, 10 hits and two home runs at the St. Louis Cardinals while throwing 76 throws in five rounds of work. He loaded the bases without outs in the first run, and his night got worse from there. The Cardinals (45-41) led 5-0 after five innings after scoring Cueto in the first two, and won an 11-2 win over the Giants (45-44). The Cueto player, right-wing Cardinals Luke Weaver, did not allow a base runner in the first five frames.

Cueto started with a 3-0 record and 0.84 earned runs. when he hit the list of disabled people. He started the season as one of the most impressive baseball weapons before fearing the intervention of Tommy John, who was not needed in the end, but did not managed to pick up where he stopped on Thursday night.

At the beginning of the match, Cueto snatched an RBI breakaway from Marcell Ozuna's head. The next hitter, Jedd Gyorko, smashed a 3-0 field on the right pitch wall to spoil Cueto's triumphant comeback even before he started. A solo shot by Matt Carpenter in the middle of the field in the second run punctuated the damage, which was already too much for the hungry giants to defeat.

By the time Alen Hanson's two-run shot went into the right field in the sixth inning, the Giants had already trailed 9-0. Thursday's debacle came after a three-game sweep in the hands of the Rockies, in which San Francisco scored just three points overall. Giants manager Bruce Bochy said before the match that he would not have shown up in Colorado since he knew his team would score only three times in the series.

Thursday's effort was not better, especially from Cueto and his other pitchers. Perhaps the hosts could have used Cepeda, who made his first visit to AT & T Park since he had a stroke and head injuries in February in front of his gym in Fairfield.

The 80-year-old Hall of Famer says he's fine and told a small group of reporters that returning to AT & T Park "feels like coming home."

"I think he's the mainstay of our family," said Ali Cepeda, Orlando's son. "… Just to have it here, to be able to walk with a cane, it's a huge improvement."

Cepeda, who said that he "did nothing" for 7-10 days after the fall of the car park that left him hospitalized, remained in a medically induced coma for three days after his accident, said his son. Shortly after awakening, a familiar face was standing near his bed.

Juan Marichal, the legend of the Giants, was in town soon after the fall. Marichal was inducted into the Multiethnic Sports Hall of Fame in Oakland on February 23, four days after the accident. "It was really meant to be," said Ali, who mentioned that Cepeda was supposed to introduce Marichal to the event. In the hospital room, Marichal asked Cepeda to move his toes to respond to his words. Cepeda did for the first time since waking up, Ali said.

"Juan kissed him (and said)," I'm your brother, I'm here, do something for me "and then he did" Ali m ". said.

Other visitors to Cepeda include Giants CEO Larry Baer, ​​former Giants chairman Peter Magowan, former Giants manager Dusty Baker, and the former Giants. team marketing guru, Pat Gallagher. When people from his baseball past visited, Cepeda said, they were not talking about the game. "They want to talk about life," said Cepeda enthusiastically

. a difficult time in his life?