Giants beat Brewers as Webb flirts with perfection, Bericoto homers

San Francisco Giants ace Logan Webb pitches during the first inning of a game against the Brewers on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in Milwaukee.

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San Francisco Giants outfielder Victor Bericoto tosses his bat after hitting a solo home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in Milwaukee.

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MILWAUKEE — With their pitching at a low ebb for more than a month and the team spiraling to the bottom of the league, the San Francisco Giants turned to their ace, Logan Webb.

Just a start away from the IL, Webb was magnificent on Wednesday, retiring the first 15 Brewers hitters and not allowing a hit until, with one out in the seventh, Brice Turang hit a line drive into left just past diving third baseman Matt Chapman. 

San Francisco didn’t light up the scoreboard, but rookie Victor Bericoto, in the big leagues all of 13 days, belted a homer into the Giants’ bullpen, a solo shot in the fifth that was the first of his career and which provided San Francisco a 1-0 victory. 

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Webb, an All-Star last year, missed nearly three weeks with a knee injury last month and he’s not having the type of season he usually enjoys, coming into the game with a 2-4 record and a 5.06 ERA. 

He likes pitching against Milwaukee though, and he might be the only one who does. Webb entered the evening with a 4-0 record and a 2.08 ERA against the Brewers in seven lifetime starts, and he got right to work sitting their hitters down, vintage Webb with many a grounder and a sprinkling of strikeouts.

He emphasized that always-special changeup even more than usual, throwing it 26 times, all to the Brewers’ many left-handed hitters (six of them and switch-hitter Luis Rengifo) and he threw the sinker a little less — also 26 of them, but he was averaging 38 percent sinkers entering the game. His command was superb: Webb got 22 called strikes. 

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Webb’s second time through the order, he went more to the cutter, and the third time through, he brought the sweeper in more.

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He got 12 ground-ball outs and struck out four, and he also got some excellent defensive work behind him, with Rafael Devers, in particular, having a strong night at first including on a sharp grounder by Jake Bauers in the fifth. 

Webb left after seven, 95 pitches on the resume and just the one walk (Sal Frelick in the sixth) and the one hit. Webb’s longest previous hitless streak in a start was 5 ⅓ innings on Sept. 21, 2022, at Colorado.

Erik Miller came in to start the eighth and gave up a hit and a walk; with one out, Keaton Winn took over and got pinch hitter Gary Sánchez to hit into a double play, with Matt Chapman making a nice play to get the runner at third and then throwing on to first to get Sánchez. 

Winn made things nervy in the ninth, giving up a leadoff double to Christian Yelich and Andrew Vaughn moved him to third with a groundout. Winn then struck out Turang — with catcher Daniel Susac more than earning his keep with two terrific stops on bouncers in the dirt — and Willy Adames made a good play on William Contreras’ bouncer to short to end it. 

Winn earned his first save of the season and second of his career; his first was in 2023.

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Jung Hoo Lee extended the majors’ longest current hit streak to 11 with a base hit in the fourth and he added a bunt single in the eighth. Lee’s hitting .310 after going 20-for-41 in that span.

Bericoto, 24, was making just his fourth start since he was called up May 22, and for the first time, was making back-to-back starts. 

The Brewers had won seven of their previous eight, the Giants had lost seven of their previous eight.