04/10/2007 12:37 AM ET Cain dazzles, but still takes loss Hurler takes no-hitter into seventh before giving up lone run By Chris Haft / MLB.com SAN DIEGO -- Another of Matt Cain's flirtations with baseball immortality disintegrated into just another Giants defeat Monday night, a 1-0 setback in the opener of a three-game series against the San Diego Padres. Cain (0-1), who made several serious bids at pitching a no-hitter last season, did so again before 31,388 at PETCO Park. The right-hander held San Diego hitless through six innings before Khalil Greene lined Cain's 100th pitch of the evening down the left-field line for a clean double leading off the seventh inning. That helped the Padres break a scoreless tie. After Cain walked Russell Branyan, Jose Cruz Jr. bunted the runners ahead before pinch-hitter Geoff Blum's sacrifice fly sent home Greene. The Giants, who have scored 14 runs in seven games, maintained their offensive futility against Chris Young (1-0), who worked seven innings, and relievers Cla Meredith and Trevor Hoffman, who extended the San Diego bullpen's season- opening scoreless-innings streak to 20 2/3. San Francisco wasted leadoff doubles by Randy Winn in the third inning and Bengie Molina in the seventh. The Giants (1-6) matched their worst seven-game start in San Francisco club history, a mark they previously reached in 1967 and 1980. The 1967 Giants were the only team to open 1-7 since the franchise moved to San Francisco in 1958. Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. --

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