SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants lost the left side of their infield a few minutes into Tuesday night’s game. Even that couldn’t slow their surprising late-season charge. 

Willy Adames and Matt Chapman got ejected after the benches cleared in the first, but the infield still played a clean defensive game and Logan Webb was backed with four homers. The 7-4 win was the ninth in 10 games and allowed the Giants to keep pace with the New York Mets, who maintained their five-game lead in the wild-card race. 

Both veterans were ejected shortly after Rafael Devers got the Giants on the board with a two-run blast in the first inning. Rockies lefty Kyle Freeland took exception to how long Devers watched the ball fly, and the two started jawing. Benches cleared and Freeland, Chapman and Adames all were sent back to the clubhouses.

While the Rockies lost their starting pitcher, the Giants got hit just as hard. But it didn’t matter. 

Casey Schmitt, one of the players to come off the bench, hit a homer and Wilmer Flores followed with his own. When the Rockies cut it to one late, Patrick Bailey responded with a two-run homer, giving the Giants their second four-homer game of the season. Both have come in the last week, which tells you what kind of heater they’re on right now. 

Player of the Week, Again? 

It got kind of lost in the chaos, but the homer was the 30th of the year for Devers and his 15th in 67 games with the Giants. This is Devers’ fourth 30-homer season in the big leagues, although he didn’t end the organization’s drought, which goes back to 2004. A big part of the lack of 30-homer hitters has been the ballpark, and Devers only has played about half his season in orange and black. 

Earlier Tuesday, Devers was named the co-Player of the Week in the National League, joining Kyle Schwarber, who had a four-homer game last week. His homer Tuesday was his fifth in the last seven games. 

The first-inning homer also gave the Giants at least one blast in 16 consecutive games, tying their SF-era record.

The Replacements

Schmitt had a sore elbow and initially was out of Tuesday’s lineup, but he ended up taking the field as part of an alignment the Giants never could have imagined using. With Chapman gone, they moved Devers from first to third. Dominic Smith took his spot at first, and Schmitt entered at second, pushing Christian Koss to short in place of Adames. 

Really, none of it should have been strange. Devers started more than 900 games at third in Boston and Koss is a natural shortstop, but Devers hasn’t taken grounders at third all year for either of his 2025 teams, and Koss rarely gets reps at short because Adames plays every day. 

Naturally, both got grounders in the bottom of the first, and both handled them cleanly. It was an uneventful night defensively, and the Rockies, perhaps showing why they’re in last place by a wide margin, didn’t even try to bunt on Devers and test him.

The Giants ended up okay on the offensive end, too. Schmitt’s 10th homer of the year ignited a three-run rally in the fifth that gave Webb a cushion.

Unusual Night

Webb is well on his way to once again leading the league in innings pitched, but he had to dig deep to even qualify for the win. He was at 82 pitches through four innings, and the Rockies opened their half of the fifth with back-to-back singles. Webb gave up a run in the frame, but got out of it with a double play. 

Webb struck out seven, getting to 194 on the season. He’s potentially one start away from reaching 200 strikeouts for the first time, which was one of his goals this year. He also moved back atop the MLB innings leaderboard, getting 1/3 of an inning ahead of Boston’s Garrett Crochet. 

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