CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Matt Chapman joined some select San Francisco baseball company \u2014 including Willie Mays \u2014 with his massive day at the plate on Friday.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old third baseman hit his fourth career grand slam, a three-run homer and added a sacrifice fly to finish with a career-high eight RBIs in the Giants’ 18-3 rout of the slumping Chicago Cubs. The eight RBIs tied the Giants’ San Francisco-era individual game record, shared by five others. The first to do it after the team relocated from New York in 1958 was Mays in on April 30, 1961.<\/p>\n
The other Giants to accomplish the feat were Orlando Cepeda (July 1961), Brandon Crawford (July 2019), Joc Pederson (May 2020) and Wilmer Flores (May 2025).<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve been doing a good job with runners in scoring position and I\u2019ve been having a lot of opportunities with guys on base,\u201d said Chapman, in his 10th major league season and third with the Giants.<\/p>\n
Chapman hit his slam in San Francisco\u2019s six-run fourth \u2014 and in a light rain \u2014 off Edward Cabrera. It barely reached Wrigley Field\u2019s left-center basket.<\/p>\n
He added a sacrifice fly in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Chapman\u2019s second homer capped the Giants\u2019 seven-run sixth inning. He launched Ethan Roberts\u2019 down-the-middle sweeper and sent it 432 feet to left before it struck an electric ad sign above the bleachers.<\/p>\n
Chapman’s slam was the Giants’ second in two days and sixth this season \u2014 all in San Francisco\u2019s last 18 games. The Giants are the sixth team in MLB history to hit six slams in 20 days or less, according to the club.<\/p>\n
Chapman said he has now homered in every major league ballpark after going deep twice at Wrigley.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got Sacramento (the Athletics’ temporary home) in Triple-A, so we\u2019ll count it,\u201d he said. “But this was my last one, so that\u2019s cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
Willy Adames and Casey Schmitt also each homered twice and Jonah Cox added a solo shot after entering as a pinch hitter. The Giants won their third straight with a 19-hit attack after getting 20 hits in a 12-9 win at Milwaukee on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Chapman is up to four homers and 31 RBIs on the season with a .241 average. His best output was 36 homers and 91 RBIs with the Athletics in an All-Star 2019 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t been doing anything different over the last week,\u201d Chapman said. \u201cWe went to Milwaukee and I hit that home run (on Monday) and then got a few more hits yesterday, so I felt like I was starting to feel more comfortable in the box.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I\u2019m on time, getting good swings off and then today just showed up and just kept trying to repeat it and, you know, the power showed up a little bit.”<\/p>\n
Even so, San Francisco is still just 26-38 and deep in the NL West standings.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t have many guys swinging the bat early and it seems like everybody\u2019s kind of come alive at a similar time,\u201d Chapman said. \u201cThe quality of at-bats have been really good.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Matt Chapman joined some select San Francisco baseball company \u2014 including Willie Mays \u2014 with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,21444,9406,138,24,4245,161,4914,881,89907,13,88012,379,4,27223,9500,9501,9496,82611,9497,39138,15187,378,4873,103,397],"class_list":["post-718480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-crawford","tag-casey-schmitt","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-ethan-roberts","tag-giants-cubs-chapman-mays","tag-joc-pederson","tag-jonah-cox","tag-matt-chapman","tag-mlb","tag-orlando-cepeda","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-31999-ap-online-baseball-news","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","tag-san-francisco","tag-willie-mays","tag-willy-adames","tag-wilmer-flores"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718480","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=718480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}