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Bryce Eldridge of the San Francisco Giants hits a walk-off grand slam home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to defeat the Washington Nationals, 11-10, on Wednesday at Oracle Park in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
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In spectacular fashion, the San Francisco Giants erased an eight-run deficit by scoring 10 runs in the final two innings of Wednesday afternoon\u2019s home game against the Washington Nationals, capped by a walk-off grand slam from young star Bryce Eldridge for a historic 11-10 victory.<\/p>\n
Eldridge\u2019s blast put an exclamation point on the biggest late-inning comeback since the Giants moved to San Francisco nearly 70 years ago, making all sorts of other history along the way. Eldridge, 21, is believed to be the youngest player in MLB history to hit a walk-off grand slam, according to NBC Sports Bay Area\u2019s Alex Pavlovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wednesday\u2019s win marked only the second time the Giants had won a game after trailing by eight runs entering the eighth inning since 1901, according to NBC Sports Bay Area\u2019s TV broadcast. The other predates the Giants\u2019 move to San Francisco in 1958, coming by way of a 10-8 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sept. 8, 1947.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is truly unbelievable,\u201d NBC Sports Bay Area color analyst Mike Krukow said on the TV broadcast, his voice cracking from excitement. \u201cIt\u2019s certainly the biggest hit in Bryce Eldridge\u2019s career, and we\u2019ll never forget it.\u201d<\/p>\n The home run was the fourth of Eldridge\u2019s career and his first career grand slam. It comes as Eldridge, once the Giants\u2019 top prospect, has seen his career bloom in the past few weeks \u2014 a recent offensive surge has him hitting just below .300 with an on-base plus slugging percentage over .900. Eldridge has even earned National League Rookie of the Year buzz for his recent performances.<\/p>\n How did historic comeback happen?<\/p>\n The comeback began in the bottom of the eighth inning, when the Giants were down 9-1 at Oracle Park. After losing the first two games of the series, including an extra-inning loss Monday after coming into the ninth inning with a two-run lead, the Nationals appeared to be about to sweep the struggling Giants, who entered the game 27-41 for the second-worst record in the National League.<\/p>\n The Giants slimmed the deficit to 9-6 by the end of the eighth, with all five runs charged to Nationals reliever Paxton Schultz, who threw a scoreless seventh frame before getting chased without recording a single out in the eighth. Matt Chapman and Rafael Devers hit back-to-back home runs to start the bottom of the inning before the Giants\u2019 two hottest bats, Jung Hoo Lee and Eldridge, both walked to continue the improbable comeback.<\/p>\n Lee extended the longest active MLB hitting streak to 18 games with two hits Wednesday, while rookie Eldridge showed up when it counted late in the game, reaching base twice during the late-game rally.<\/p>\n The Nationals scored one run in the top of the ninth off a solo shot from Curtis Mead before the Giants got right back to it with the meat of their order up again.<\/p>\n No. 2 hitter Luis Arraez doubled and then Chapman did the same, driving in Arraez. Devers walked and Lee hit a single, bringing up Eldridge with the bases loaded, nobody out and his team down 10-7.<\/p>\n Eldridge, a Virginia native who grew up a Nationals fan, delivered the grand slam on a 2-0 slider from Mitchell Parker.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the mind\u2019s a powerful tool, and I saw it before it happened,\u201d Eldridge said in a postgame interview with NBC Sports Bay Area studio analyst Shawn Estes. \u201cSo that was pretty cool. Just looking for a pitch to drive, and I got one hanging, and I\u2019m glad I did what I\u2019m supposed to do with that pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n This story was originally published June 10, 2026 at 4:42 PM.<\/p>\n Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n![\"Bryce](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2280968896-GI.JPG\" "\\"2280968896-GI.JPG\\"")
Bryce Eldridge of the San Francisco Giants rounds the bases after hitting a walk-off grand slam home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to defeat the Washington Nationals, 11-10, on Wednesday at Oracle Park in San Francisco. Thearon W. Henderson Getty Images <\/p>\n
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