For the first time under manager Tony Vitello, the Giants have a winning streak.<\/p>\n
Willy Adames and Jung Hoo Lee both homered and drove in two runs apiece while Landen Roupp pitched six innings of one-run ball as San Francisco defeated the Baltimore Orioles 6-3\u00a0on Friday night at Camden Yards for its third straight win to kick off a nine-game trip.<\/p>\n
Along with Adames and Lee, designated hitter Casey Schmitt went 3-for-4 with three doubles two runs scored. Despite going hitless in his first three games and dealing with low back tightness, Schmitt is hitting .333 with a .912 OPS.<\/p>\n
Afterward, Schmitt raved about Adames.<\/p>\n
\u201cMan, he looked like a young Manny Ramirez on that backside home run,\u201d Schmitt said on the Apple TV broadcast. \u201cWow. He got us going early and we just kept going. It was just a lot of fun to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Giants scored 30 runs over their first 11 games (2.7 per game) and were outscored by 27 runs, but over their last three games, they\u2019ve scored 17 runs (5.7 per game) and outscored their opponents by 14 runs.<\/p>\n
And now they have a win streak.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it can do a lot for us,\u201d Schmitt told Apple of the three consecutive wins. \u201cWe\u2019ve been really good about not putting too much pressure on ourselves and just going out and playing and just letting things fall in line. That\u2019s where we\u2019re at right now. We\u2019re going out, we\u2019re having fun, and we\u2019re just playing baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adames has two hits in each of his last four games, going 8-for-17 with six extra-base hits (five doubles, one homer) while only striking out one time.<\/p>\n
Lee\u2019s first home run of the season came at an opportune time for the struggling right fielder, who entered play hitting .143 with a .439 OPS. By OPS+, Lee entered play hitting 71% worse than a league-average hitter.<\/p>\n
Adames, who had five doubles against the Phillies, opened the scoring in the top of the third with an opposite-field solo homer off Shane Baz. It was his second home run of the year, and it gave the Giants a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The Orioles nearly tied the game in the bottom of the third, but Lee kept San Francisco\u2019s lead intact with a masterful play, albeit one that won\u2019t make the highlight reels.<\/p>\n
With the speedy Gunnar Henderson on first, Baltimore\u2019s Adley Rutschman turned on a pitch from Roupp and hit it off the right field wall. Lee perfectly played the carom, then fired a throw to second baseman Luis Arraez, forcing Henderson to stop at third. With two on and two out, Roupp struck out Pete Alonso to end the threat.<\/p>\n
San Francisco tripled its lead in the top of the fourth on an opposite-field RBI single by Heliot Ramos and an RBI double by Adames, tagging Baz for four hits and expanding to its lead to 3-0.<\/p>\n
The Giants\u2019 streak of 23 consecutive scoreless innings ended in the fourth when the Orioles\u2019 Leody Taveras doubled in a run off Roupp, cutting the lead to 3-1.<\/p>\n
In the top of the seventh, San Francisco doubled its advantage to 6-1. Schmitt doubled home Matt Chapman, then Lee cleared the fences for the first time this season with a two-run shot.<\/p>\n
The Orioles had an opportunity to cut into the Giants\u2019 lead in the bottom of the eighth when Alonso and Samuel Basallo drew back-to-back two-out walks off JT Brubaker, but left-hander Matt Gage extinguished the rally by getting Ryan Mountcastle.<\/p>\n
Baltimore made things interesting in the bottom of the ninth inning as Gunnar Henderson hit a two-out, two-run homer off Blade Tidwell, then Taylor Ward immediately followed up with a double. Despite those back-to-back extra-base hits, Tidwell secured the win by getting Rutschman to pop out.<\/p>\n
Next up<\/p>\n
Right-hander Logan Webb (5.00 ERA, 15 strikeouts) makes his fourth start of the season against the Orioles\u2019 Chris Bassitt (14.21 ERA, three strikeouts) on Saturday at 4:15 p.m. PT. After allowing seven runs (six earned) in his first start of the season, Webb has notched back-to-back quality starts in his last two outings, allowing four earned runs over 13 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time under manager Tony Vitello, the Giants have a winning streak. Willy Adames and Jung…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2135,184,7,23726,402,181,1334,395,101,396,4820,103,102,104,106,105,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-264055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-giants-hq","12":"tag-inside-sports","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-peninsula","16":"tag-san-francisco","17":"tag-san-francisco-county","18":"tag-san-francisco-giants","19":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","20":"tag-san-francisco-news","21":"tag-sf","22":"tag-sf-headlines","23":"tag-sf-news","24":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}