SF Giants score season-high 15 runs, extend winning streak to six games

30.08.2025    The Mercury News    2 views
SF Giants score season-high 15 runs, extend winning streak to six games

SAN FRANCISCO Dominic Smith grew up idolizing Barry Bonds He watched how Bonds sent home run after home run into McCovey Cove sending awaiting cadres of kayaks into a craze Now Smith too knows the feeling of sending a long ball into the San Francisco Bay Smith s first Splash Hit and the th in Oracle Park history was the highlight of a night where the Giants - outslugged the Baltimore Orioles - on Friday night and extended their winning streak to six games Despite Friday s win the Giants remain six games back of the Mets for the final NL wild card spot following New York s - bludgeoning of the Miami Marlins On a night where the Giants set their season-high in runs scored there was no shortage of notable stat lines up and down the lineup Every starter totaled at least one hit Five players Smith Willy Adames Luis Matos Rafael Devers Drew Gilbert recorded multiple hits Five players Smith Devers Matos Gilbert Matt Chapman had multiple RBIs Smith finished with a season-high four RBIs Matos hit his eighth home run of the season and totaled a career-high four hits along with three RBIs Willy Adames totaled four hits his second four-hit competition as a Giant along with a steal an RBI and two runs scored Matt Chapman drove in a pair of runs Drew Gilbert scored a run with his first career double This marks the first time since June - that the Giants have scored at least runs in a three-game span That offense was needed on a night where Robbie Ray allowed a season-high six runs over innings one of only five times this season that the left-hander hasn t completed at least five innings Ray s velocity had noticeably dipped in his last two starts clocking in at mph against the San Diego Padres and mph against the Milwaukee Brewers but his four-seamer was back up to mph against the Orioles Smith s splash landing the first by a Giant since Mike Yastrzemski s walk-off against the Cincinnati Reds will be the defining highlight of the night but one of the encounter s majority of electrifying plays happened on the bases Related Articles SF Giants Rodr guez recommended to undergo Tommy John surgery Randy Moffitt former SF Giants reliever and brother of Billie Jean King dies at Tyler Skaggs wrongful-death trial against Los Angeles Angels on track to begin in a month Willy Adames homers twice as SF Giants walk off Cubs for series sweep SF Giants win fourth consecutive competition behind four-homer evening In the bottom of the seventh with runners on first and second Rafael Devers lined a single to left field The Orioles Dylan Beavers airmailed the throw home allowing Drew Gilbert to points from second and Willy Adames to advance to third Devers seeing the mistake advanced from first to second If catcher Alex Jackson ate the throw the play would ve been over and only one run would ve scored Instead Jackson threw to second to try to get Devers Adames recognizing that no one was home dashed for the plate Jackson scrambled back to cover but the throw home was too late

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