SAN FRANCISCO – Earlier than the Giants can lastly welcome the Dodgers to Oracle Park this season on their method into the All-Star break, the Nationwide League East-leading Phillies are right here first as a three-game undercard.
It’s a high-powered homestand, and it acquired off to a victorious, tension-filled begin Monday night time with the Giants prevailing 3-1 earlier than a sellout crowd of 40,043.
“Two really good teams are coming in here and we just have to keep playing baseball,” Giants pitcher Landen Roupp mentioned. “Guys are hitting, making plays and we’re throwing the ball well. We have to keep it going.”
Swept by Miami their final time at residence, the Giants produced two runs in an eighth-inning rally depending on floor balls and batters hit by pitches.
The successful rally, step-by-step:
— Willy Adames, having already prolonged his hitting streak to a season-best eight video games, led off by getting hit by a pitch from reliever Orion Kerkering.
— Matt Chapman, in his third recreation again from a sprained wrist, battled to a full rely earlier than grounding a single to proper and transferring Adames to 3rd. “It’s a big homestand for us, so it’s big to get this first one for us,” Chapman mentioned after getting a celebratory water bathe on NBC Sports activities Bay Space’s postgame present.
— Wilmer Flores, the Giants’ RBI chief, acquired hit by a 3-1 pitch to load the bases.
— Casey Schmitt, in his first recreation off the 10-day Injured Record, hit a grounder to shortstop to carry residence Adames for a 2-1 lead; Schmitt beat the relay throw to first to keep away from a double play.
— Jung Ho Lee rattled a grounder to first baseman Bryce Harper, whose broad throw residence allowed Chapman to slip in head first for an insurance coverage run and 3-1 lead.
Camilo Doval got here on for his 14th save in 18 alternatives, and that capped a top-notch night time for the Giants’ bullpen in reduction of Roupp’s begin. “It hasn’t been his best here recently. But he’s finding a way to get it done,” Giants supervisor Bob Melvin mentioned.
Doval, like Monday’s pitching predecessors, allowed the leadoff runner to achieve (Max Kepler; stroll). Schmitt made a leaping snare for the inning’s first out (on Doval’s thirteenth pitch to J.T. Realmuto). Bryson Stott then grounded to Flores at first for what can be a game-ending double play.
The Giants (50-42) have received three in a row. The Phillies (53-38) had received their earlier two.
The Giants parlayed a bases-loaded rally within the second inning right into a 1-0 lead, with Chapman scoring that lone run when Luis Matos’ RBI grounder was botched by shortstop Trea Turner, who doubtlessly might have began an inning-ending double play had he cleanly fielded the ball. Chapman had led off with a single, adopted by a Flores single and Schmitt stroll.
Roupp opened with 4 scoreless innings, whereas twice placing out All-Star Kyle Schwarber.
Then the ball actually bounced the Phillies’ method as they pulled even within the fifth inning. Bryson Stott scored on a wild pitch from third, however solely after Stott reached base when a bad-hop grounder clanked off first baseman Wilmer Flores’ proper foot and between his legs on its method down the right-field line for a leadoff double.
“The ball to Flo, it took a left turn. I don’t know what happened there. That was one of the worst hops we’ve seen so far,” Melvin mentioned. “Other than that we played clean baseball, and you have to when you’re not scoring a lot of runs. … We pitched and played defense.”
Roupp escaped additional harm within the fifth, because of Luis Matos making a diving catch on a Schwarber liner earlier than Harper struck out wanting on a excessive, full-count sinker.
“Today he just had great energy out there. It was like early in the season energy, not coming down to the half,” Melvin mentioned. ” … It’s clearly a tricky lineup to navigate by way of. The final thrice out, he’s been actually good.”
Roupp, who has a 1.85 ERA in his seven residence begins, mentioned: “I was locked in. I did my job and got through five.”
Then it was as much as the Giants’ bullpen to tease then shut down the Phillies.
Ryan Walker labored a 1-2-3 sixth, then Joey Lucchesi yielded a leadoff single within the seventh earlier than recording three consecutive outs – on a sacrifice bunt, on a comebacker off his left hip, and on a strikeout of Trea Turner. Reliever Tyler Rogers mimicked that sample, surrendering a leadoff single (to Schwarber) earlier than inducing three outs and preserving the rating tied.
Rogers acquired the win, and his 1.62 ERA ranks sixth-best within the majors.
NOTES: “For the most part I felt good, swung at good pitches, laid off some good pitches, took a walk,” Schmitt mentioned of his 1-for-3, 1 RBI, 1 stroll return as he settles in because the second baseman with Tyler Fitzgerald despatched again to Triple-A Sacramento. Schmitt’s .276 batting common was the perfect within the Giants’ lineup getting into Monday’s recreation. … Roupp has allowed 4 runs mixed over his previous 4 begins. … Adames stretched his season-best hitting streak to eight video games with a fifth-inning double. … A wedding proposal – congrats to Olivia and Tobias – drew the night time’s most emotional standing ovation, together with from some Giants of their neighboring dugout through the sixth-inning stretch. … The Giants have been poised to take a 2-0 lead within the third, however a ground-rule double by Chapman off the center-field observe compelled Rafael Devers again to 3rd base. Flores struck out to strand each runners in scoring place; Devers reached by skying a ball into the bay breeze earlier than it kindly fell forward of proper fielder Nick Castellanos. … The Phillies are 2-11 at Oracle Park since 2021. … Robbie Ray (9-3, 2.68 ERA) will oppose Taijuan Walker (3-5, 3.64) in Tuesday’s 6:45 p.m. begin, adopted by Justin Verlander (0-6, 4.84) vs. Jesus Luzardo (7-5, 4.44) in Wednesday’s 12:45 collection finale.
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