The Giants couldn’t ask more of Robbie Ray. Seven innings, one run, nine strikeouts — all of which amounted to a seventh consecutive quality start.

On an evening where the offense couldn’t muster a single run, Ray couldn’t avoid taking his first loss of the season.

Despite Ray’s excellence, the Giants lost to the Miami Marlins, 1-0, on Saturday afternoon at LoanDepot Park as the offense — due in part to two excellent defensive plays by Miami — couldn’t cash in on numerous opportunities to score despite generating eight hits. San Francisco has now gone 13 consecutive games without scoring more than four runs, the longest such streak since 1988.“Just got to fight out of it, unfortunately,” manager Bob Melvin told reporters in Miami.

Ray finished May with a 1.38 ERA over six starts with 45 strikeouts over 39 innings, the lowest ERA he’s ever posted in a calendar month in his career. The left-hander has now recorded seven consecutive quality starts, allowing eight runs over 46 innings (1.57 ERA) with 53 strikeouts over this stretch.

The left-hander struggled early with his four-seam fastball command and leaned heavily on his changeup, the offering that he re-introduced this spring with the help of the Detroit Tigers’ Tarik Skubal. Ray’s 32 changeups were the second-most he’s thrown in a single start in his career, and his 12 whiffs with the pitch were the most he’s generated in a single start.

“Could just tell that I was getting some bad swings on it and some soft contact,” Ray told reporters.