first Giant since Barry Bonds in 2004<\/a> to hit at least 30 home runs in a single season.<\/p>\n\u201cWilly\u2019s just a spark plug in general,\u201d Webb said. \u201cThe type of guy he is in the clubhouse, the type of guy he is every single day. I think it\u2019s a great spot for him, to be honest. When you start the day out with a home run, I think that\u2019s kind of Willy, right? That\u2019s how he ended (last) season, too. I pitched that game and he started it with a home run.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know, personally, I\u2019m not very good against him, but if I was an opposing pitcher and I saw Willy leading off, it\u2019s a hard start to the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Giants tacked on two more runs in the first when Jung Hoo Lee smoked a two-run double that drove in Heliot Ramos and Matt Chapman, giving San Francisco an early 3-0 lead. Chapman extended that advantage to 4-0 in the top of the third with a towering solo homer, his first of the season, that barely cleared the left-field fence.<\/p>\n
San Diego cut San Francisco\u2019s advantage to 4-3 in the bottom of the third thanks to a pair of one-out free passes. Webb gifted the Padres a free rally by walking Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado, setting the table for Jackson Merrill and Miguel Andujar\u2019s RBI singles, as well as Xander Bogaerts\u2019 RBI groundout.<\/p>\n
The Giants widened their advantage in the top of the sixth inning by putting up a four-spot courtesy of Adames\u2019 RBI single, Heliot Ramos\u2019 two-run single and Luis Arraez\u2019s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n
Rafael Devers contributed to the rally by turning on the burners and legging out an infield single, though he was only safe because Padres pitcher Kyle Hart missed the bag. Devers was clocked at 27.8 feet per second, well above his average sprint speed last year of 25.0 feet per second.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey, he might be faster than Ramos,\u201d Adames laughed.<\/p>\n
While Webb endured a rocky third inning, the two-time All-Star proceeded to retire the final 10 batters that he faced to end his night strong. In the bottom of the fifth, Webb struck out Tatis and Machado swinging, then punched out Merrill on a perfectly-placed front-hip sinker.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think it showed his guts,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cThat\u2019ll be one of my favorite outings of the year, even though you could take a step back and say it was one of the uglier ones, too, at times.\u201d<\/p>\n
Webb had thrown 92 pitches at the end of five innings, but Vitello allowed Webb to go out for the sixth. The right-hander needed just 12 pitches to complete the frame.<\/p>\n
Following Webb\u2019s departure, right-hander JT Brubaker tossed two scoreless innings in the seventh and eighth, then right-hander Jos\u00e9 Butt\u00f3 secured the win with a scoreless ninth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2014 The Giants\u2019 offense has gradually come to life following back-to-back shutout losses to begin the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,2178,4,43,137,18,66,4339,4338,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-656478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-padres","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-san-francisco-giants","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-sandiegopadres","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116329277616483289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}