ST. LOUIS -- With a chance to tack an exclamation point onto their impressive road trip, the Giants instead were shut down by Adam Wainwright and the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday.
In the final game of a seven-game trip, the Giants lost 3-1 and managed just five hits at Busch Stadium. Madison Bumgarner gave up only three hits in six innings, but one of them was a two-run homer to one-time Giant Carlos Beltran.
The first-inning homer put to rest any memories of Tuesday night's 15-0 Giants win, but Bumgarner settled in and pitched effectively into the sixth inning. Bumgarner retired 13 of 14 after Beltran's homer before Jon Jay opened the sixth with a double, stole third, and scored on a sacrifice fly.
The Giants had scored 56 runs in the first six games of the trip through Denver and St. Louis. They got their only run on a Marco Scutaro sacrifice fly in the fifth, but didn't have a hit after the sixth inning.
Still, the trip was a successful one for the Giants, who swept the Colorado Rockies and split with the hard-hitting Cardinals. After a 1-5 road trip at the end of the first half, the Giants have gone 9-4 on their first two road trips of the second half.
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/AlexPavlovic.
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