After 11-game victory drought, Giants' Landen Roupp back in win column with 8-inning gem

Giants starter Landen Roupp limited the Blue Jays to one run and three hits in eight innings on Monday at Oracle Park as he earned his first win since April 26.  (Jeff Chiu/Associated Press)

It had been 71 days since the San Francisco Giants won a baseball game with Landen Roupp on the mound. 

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In those two-plus months, Roupp had solid starts buried by blown leads, short and ugly outings and a whole lot of uninspired ones in between. 

The Giants lost 11 straight games in his starts, something the team hadn't done since they lost 11 straight Pat Misch starts between 2007 and 2008. One more and he Roupp would have been the fifth starter in Giants history to go 12 straight.

Roupp not only put an end to that streak Monday night at Oracle Park, but he did so with one of the strongest outings of his young career and with the help of Heliot Ramos' two-homer game (plus, a little league home run to kick things off). The Giants beat the Toronto Blue Jays 10-1 while Roupp pitched a career-high eight innings.

The Blue Jays' once challenging offense isn't performing like it did last season on its way to the American League pennant, but the lineup is rife with sluggers. Roupp went to his sinker readily, a pitch that betrayed him most during the losing streak. Since May 2, opponents were hitting .365 off that pitch. 

The pitch got him through the outing. Roupp allowed three hits, striking out five and walking two. One hit was a Kazuma Okamoto home run, the only run Toronto could muster.

Roupp, who last won on April 26, left the mound with quite a cushion to rest on. Ramos got things started with a leadoff little league home run, which was a triple off former Giants right-hander Kevin Gausman on which Ramos scored due to a throwing error. 

Ramos slugged an actual home run in the sixth inning, an opposite field shot sliced just over the right field fence. A 434-foot home run to left field in the eighth marked his first career multi-homer game. He had a five-RBI night.

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