traded Patrick Bailey<\/a>, who delivered a walk-off single and a 7-6 win.<\/p>\n\u201cI think this team needs to play and needs to keep finding moments to build on and recreate today \u2014 I don\u2019t want to recreate today,\u201d said manager Tony Vitello, after snapping a three-series losing streak. \u201cI\u2019d have a heart attack.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s bloop single that scored Heliot Ramos may have been the one to end the game, but that moment wouldn\u2019t have been possible without a laundry list of contributions along the way.<\/p>\n
There was, of course, Rodr\u00edguez, who redeemed himself after making a throwing error in the first and striking out swinging with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th with a chance to win the game.<\/p>\n
There was shortstop Willy Adames, who delivered a two-out, two-run, game-tying single in the bottom of the 10th inning, one of his three hits on the day.<\/p>\n
There was left-handed reliever Ryan Borucki, who bounced back from a shaky Saturday outing to deliver two scoreless innings against his former team.<\/p>\n
There was fellow lefty Sam Hentges, who made his first appearance in the majors since July 10, 2024, and recorded the final out of the seventh inning.<\/p>\n
There was Matt Chapman, who delivered a game-tying RBI double back in the sixth despite entering play in a brutal 1-for-30 slump.<\/p>\n
There was Ramos, who scored the game-winning run and hit a no-doubt home run in the bottom of the fourth.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not going to just be one swing or one win that just catapults you,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a grind and stick together that took place today. \u2026 From my experience, a walk-off win is about as good of a team-builder as you can find.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been on teams where stuff like this \u2014 big wins like this that kind of takes everybody \u2014 just flips the script,\u201d Borucki said. \u201cI was in Seattle in \u201922. We got in a huge brawl with the Angels and we rattled off 14 in a row. We went from being in last place to first place. It can happen at any time. I live by the term, \u2018It\u2019s never too late to get hot.\u2019 It\u2019s a long year, and we just need to take this momentum into the series against the Dodgers.\u201d<\/p>\n
For all of the contributors on Sunday, Vitello praised right-hander JT Brubaker, another former Pirate, for starting to warm up in preparation for a potential 13th inning.<\/p>\n
Brubaker was initially unavailable after throwing 30 pitches on Saturday, but after Borucki\u2019s two innings of work, Brubaker was the only real option left. Matt Gage didn\u2019t pitch either, but he wasn\u2019t an option since Sunday would\u2019ve been his third straight\u00a0 appearance.<\/p>\n
What would\u2019ve Vitello done if Brubaker pitched the 13th and the game still hadn\u2019t ended? The ball would\u2019ve likely ended up in the hands of outfielder Drew Gilbert, who pitched for Vitello at Tennessee.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s one of like 17 things you could mention that were stressful,\u201d Vitello said.<\/p>\n
With his game-winning single in the 12th, Rodr\u00edguez ensured Vitello didn\u2019t have to break the emergency glass of using a position player in a close game.<\/p>\n
Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s single landed well in front of Pirates right fielder Ryan O\u2019Hearn, but Ramos had to scramble home to beat the throw.<\/p>\n
While Rodr\u00edguez knew the ball was going to land, Ramos said the ball hung in the air and wanted to be completely sure that it touched grass. And once Ramos touched home, the Giants fans who remained for all three hours and 51 minutes of ball unearthed a cathartic scream to celebrate the win.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like it\u2019s a big win for us, especially coming from behind a couple times,\u201d Rodr\u00edguez said. \u201cEverybody was together. Everybody\u2019s been together since I got here. It\u2019s great. I feel like everybody\u2019s going in the same direction, so I feel like we\u2019re going to get out of this struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n
To Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s point, the Giants spent much of Sunday afternoon playing catch-up.<\/p>\n
The Pirates took a 2-0 lead with runs in the first and second, but the Giants matched them with runs in the third and fourth. Pittsburgh took a 4-2 lead by scoring a run apiece in the fifth and sixth, but Ramos and Chapman tied the game in the sixth with a pair of RBI singles.<\/p>\n
San Francisco, once again, trailed by two runs in the bottom of the 10th and was in real danger of falling 10 games below .500 for the first time since 2019, but Adames extended the game by roping a single to left field. Luis Arraez jogged home, and Christian Koss, pinch-running for Rafael Devers, scored the tying run.<\/p>\n
The Pirates put runners at the corners with no outs in the top of the 11th, but Borucki entered from the bullpen and wiggled out of trouble. Borucki got the first out by striking out Oneil Cruz, then turned an inning-ending 6-3 double play. Brandon Lowe lined out and Henry Davis, who was running on the pitch, was doubled up at first.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe good thing for me is I have scouting reports in my head that no one else here knows because I was on that team,\u201d Borucki said. \u201cI\u2019ve seen those guys for three years, so I know probably better than anybody here what their strengths and weaknesses are. Our boys made good plays behind me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Borucki, who allowed a run on Saturday, went out for a second inning and kept the game tied with a scoreless 12th. That set the stage for Rodr\u00edguez, in his fifth major-league game, to deliver his first career walk-off.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we kind of know what Buster (Posey) saw in order to acquire him, and it\u2019s what everybody sees when you watch him,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cIts impossible not to see the attributes that he has.\u201d<\/p>\n
Worth noting<\/p>\n
Right-hander Tyler Mahle continued his odd \u201cgood start, bad start\u201d trend by surrendering two homers and allowing four runs over 5 2\/3 innings with eight strikeouts and two walks.<\/p>\n
In odd-numbered starts this season, Mahle has allowed two earned runs over 22 innings (0.82 ERA). In even-numbered starts, he has allowed 22 earned runs over 19 2\/3 innings (10.07 ERA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 It was an afternoon that stubbornly would not end, a 12-inning Mother\u2019s Day affair that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,2178,162,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-695916","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-california","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-giants","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","16":"tag-sf","17":"tag-sf-giants","18":"tag-sfgiants","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116554751252292666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695916","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=695916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}