Giants quick to share blame for 9th-inning collapse

SAN FRANCISCO — There was no shortage of Giants willing to assume blame for Tuesday night’s come-from-ahead, 6-4 loss to the San Diego Padres.

Hunter Strickland, who recorded the save in the Giants’ last victory, Sunday at Arizona, believed that he should have covered first base more quickly on Luis Sardinas’ grounder off first baseman Buster Posey’s glove. The ball trickled to second baseman Joe Panik, whose throw to first was too late.

In fairness to Strickland, he might not have beaten Sardinas with an on-time departure to the bag. Nevertheless, Strickland remained self-critical.

“That’s on me for not doing my job,” he said.

Strickland also lamented the one-out, bases-loaded walk he issued to the subsequent batter, Wil Myers. It forced in a run and trimmed the difference to 4-2. Both Giants manager Bruce Bochy and catcher Trevor Brown partially absolved Strickland for this lapse, though.

“He missed on some close pitches,” Brown said.

One batter after Myers, the Giants missed another critical opportunity when they recorded …

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