SAN FRANCISCO — Wilmer Flores hit a go-ahead dwelling run, Jung Hoo Lee tripled dwelling an insurance coverage run, and identical solid of characters that has powered the Giants’ sturdy begin to the season carried them to 4-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers to start their homestand Monday night time.
Taking part in his first recreation in opposition to his former crew, Willy Adames scored from first on Lee’s triple within the seventh inning that padded the Giants’ lead however completed hitless in 4 at-bats as his batting common sank financial institution under .200, to .194.
The rating was tied at 2 when Flores launched a first-pitch sinker from Grant Anderson deep into the left-field bleachers with two outs within the seventh. His team-leading seven homers path solely 4 different gamers for probably the most within the majors.
The Giants needed to claw again from a 2-0 deficit after Caleb Durbin took Robbie Ray deep within the second inning.
Ray was removed from sharp however rebounded from the lengthy ball to turned in one in every of his longest begins of the season. It took him 91 pitches to finish 5 innings, and he issued three walks, however he went deeper than he had since April 5 vs. Seattle and issued his fewest free passes since his first begin in Cincinnati on March 30.
One pitch resulted in each of the Brewers’ runs off the Giants’ starter, who has but to lose a begin however was saddled with a no-decision: a letter-high fastball to Durbin, which the No. 9 hitter deposited simply past the left-field wall for a two-run blast after Joey Ortiz reached by beating out a double play.
The runs had been the primary Ray had allowed in opposition to Milwaukee since 2016, spanning 20⅓ innings. He picked off Jackson Chourio within the prime of the primary to move Chris Bassitt for the longest lively scoreless streak in opposition to the Brewers, then misplaced the belt when Durbin took him deep the subsequent inning.
The Giants acquired one run again at a time, getting two-out single from Patrick Bailey that allowed Heliot Ramos to race dwelling from second to make it 2-1 within the second inning and tying the sport when Tyler Fitzgerald got here round to attain after legging out his second infield single of the sport within the fifth.
All of it led as much as the large homer from Flores, who has seemingly had as many as any participant across the league this season. He additionally labored a two-out stroll that arrange Bailey’s RBI single within the second and poked a single previous first baseman Rhys Hoskins within the eighth.
Lee’s triple was his second of the season, one off the major-league lead. He already leads the majors with 10 doubles and possesses a team-best .983 OPS. Earlier than lacing Jared Koenig’s 1-0 sinker into right-center area, the 31,758 readily available had been serenading him with chants of his personal identify.
The 5 runs equaled finest scoring output in 5 video games for the Giants, who had misplaced three of their previous 4 video games and wasted a pair of walks to steer off the primary two innings when Mike Yastrzemski and Matt Chapman had been every thrown out making an attempt to steal bases.
Chapman’s stroll within the second inning was his MLB-best twenty second of the season in 23 video games.
San Francisco had been 18-for-21 on the bases earlier than being thrown out twice.
The four-game sequence continues Tuesday at 6:45 p.m. with RHP Jordan Hicks (1-2, 6.04) in opposition to LHP José Quintana (2-0, 0.71).
