SAN FRANCISCO — Luis Severino gave the Mets’ rotation a boost Tuesday night by pitching six innings, looking good in five of them.
The exception cost him and loomed even larger as this suddenly slumping Mets lineup was burrowing further underground against last year’s National League Cy Young award runner-up.
Logan Webb became the second starting pitcher in three days to pitch eight shutout innings against the Mets, who lost 5-1 to the Giants at Oracle Park.
The Mets, who lost their third straight, got blanked over eight innings by Tyler Glasnow on Sunday on their way to a shutout loss in Los Angeles and followed that with two runs Monday.
Webb allowed only six hits over 106 pitches before the Mets scratched for a run against Tyler Rogers in the ninth.
Suddenly, a road trip that began with so much promise — with two straight victories over the Dodgers — is in jeopardy of turning into a disappointment.
The Mets need a victory in Wednesday’s series finale to salvage a .500 trip.
Severino allowed three earned runs, all of them in the fifth inning.
He surrendered five hits and struck out five without walking a batter.
The Mets still haven’t had a starter pitch into the seventh inning this season, but Severino’s six was welcomed after Sean Manaea, Jose Butto, Adrian Houser and Jose Quintana had fallen short of that mark over the previous four games.
The Giants jumped on Severino with four singles in the fifth.
Michael Conforto’s bloop single to left leading off the inning gave the Giants their first base runner after Severino retired the first 12 batters.
Matt Chapman followed with a single and with one out Thairo Estrada singled in Conforto, advancing to second on the throw home. Mike Yastrzemski’s ensuing single brought in two runs to place the Mets in a 3-0 hole.
Omar Narvaez doubled with two outs in the third to snap an 0-for-16 drought, but Webb retired Brandon Nimmo to end the threat.
Webb had retired the first eight batters he faced, seven of them on grounders with a strikeout in-between.
Starling Marte singled leading off the fourth, but refrained from attempting a steal of second.
That decision was magnified as Francisco Lindor hit into a double play.
Jeff McNeil reached on a two-out infield single in the fifth before Webb struck out Joey Wendle, who started at second base to give the Mets an extra left-handed bat in the lineup with Harrison Bader on the bench. In the inning, Conforto robbed DJ Stewart of a bloop single to left with a diving catch.
In the sixth, Marte stroked a two-out double before Webb struck out Lindor to end the threat.
Wendle saved a run in the seventh with a diving stop on Patrick Bailey’s grounder that became the third out after LaMonte Wade Jr., was hit by a pitch to begin the inning and Conforto singled him to third.
Webb allowed a leadoff single to Alonso in the seventh before retiring the next three batters to keep his shutout intact.
Drew Smith entered for the seventh and surrendered a leadoff triple to Estrada and RBI single to Yastrzemski that increased the Mets’ deficit to 4-0.
Wade’s double off Lindor’s glove brought in the Giants’ fifth run. Smith had allowed only one earned run in his previous nine appearances.
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