One day after Jung Hoo Lee was placed on the 10-day injured list and officially closed the book on San Francisco’s opening day starting lineup, Landen Roupp made sure there was only one Giants player left standing from that March game against the New York Yankees.
Roupp said Tuesday he will not pitch again this season. He isn’t dealing with a fresh injury, but the Giants and the right-hander decided there was no point in pushing him any further, especially with no postseason berth in play. Roupp has already logged more innings in 2026 than at any other point in his professional career, and his injury history factored into the call.
His season ends at 9-14 with a 4.01 ERA over 155 innings. Last year, he threw 106 innings in the Majors and missed time because of right elbow inflammation.
That leaves Christian Koss as the lone remaining player from San Francisco’s 26-man opening day roster. It’s an odd little survivor story for a team that has spent most of the season getting picked apart by injuries and roster churn.
Koss didn’t stay on the big league roster all year. The Giants optioned him to Triple-A Sacramento on May 15, and he got hurt there, which kept him out for a month. He returned to San Francisco on July 1 and has seen more run as injuries piled up around him, including to Matt Chapman, Casey Schmidt, Willy Adames and Rafael Devers.
Before Tuesday’s game against the Minnesota Twins, Koss was hitting .230/.273/.326 with four home runs and 12 RBI in 66 games. He will not surpass the 76 games he played as a rookie last season, a year that helped put him on the opening-day roster in the first place.
The Giants added another setback on Tuesday when they placed Blade Tidwell on the 15-day injured list with a right sprained UCL. He is being evaluated by team doctors, and if surgery is required, he would become the fifth young Giants pitcher to have surgery to repair the ligament tied most closely to Tommy John surgery.
For Koss, the only thing left is the finish line. That comes Sunday in San Francisco, when the Giants host the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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