Gage<\/a> claimed the win in relief in San Francisco\u2019s victory over Philadelphia on Wednesday. He only recorded two outs, but it was enough to get the win. For the 33-year-old, it was a full circle moment. After all, he started his career with the San Francisco Giants. <\/p>\nMatt Gage Wins His First Game![\"San](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01kntq6stnss51g11y68.jpg\" "\\"San")
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San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Gage. | Eakin Howard-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Since Gage returned to the organization last year, he\u2019s been a blessing to the bullpen. In six games this season he hasn\u2019t allowed a run in 6.1 innings. He\u2019s struck out five and walked three and has been the Giants\u2019 most effective left-handed reliever. <\/p>\n
Last season when he joined the Giants he appeared in 27 games out of the bullpen, as he went 0-1 with a 3.91 ERA. He struck out 24 and walked 10 in 25.1 innings. While batters his .283 against him, he had two holds. <\/p>\n
Gage spent more than four seasons in the Giants\u2019 organization but never made it to the Majors before he was released in July of 2018. And his long path back to San Francisco began. <\/p>\n
He landed with the New York Mets after his release but became a free agent that November. No MLB team wanted him, so he landed with Diablos Rojos del M\u00e9xico in the Mexican League in 2019. When COVID-19 limited the Majors to 60 games and shut down minor league baseball in 2020 he remained in Mexico and played for Eastern Reyes del Tigre of the Constellation Energy League.<\/p>\n
He finally landed with an MLB organization in 2021 with Arizona, but he didn\u2019t reach the Majors. While he was in winter ball in Mexico, he signed with Toronto for the 2022 season and finally got the call to pitch his first Major League inning on June 6, 2022. But he wasn\u2019t done moving around. <\/p>\n
Houston took him in for the 2023 season and he pitched in five games. In 2024 he signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers, didn\u2019t get to the Majors and was traded to the Mets, who also didn\u2019t call him up. He signed with Detroit for the 2025 season, pitched in six games and designated for assignment in June. After he cleared waivers and declared free agency, he signed a minor league deal with San Francisco.<\/p>\n
He hasn\u2019t left since then. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pitchers have milestone moments. One of the big ones is that first Major League win. For San Francisco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-672761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-giants","13":"tag-sanfrancisco","14":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","15":"tag-sf","16":"tag-sf-giants","17":"tag-sfgiants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116382653290667717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672761","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=672761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}