Logan Webb deals, Giants avoid four-game sweep vs. Braves

Aug 16, 2024, 7:23 AM | Updated: 7:24 am

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 15: Logan Webb #62 of the San Francisco Giants pitches against t...

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Logan Webb won his fourth consecutive start with 7 2/3 shutout innings, Grant McCray recorded his first two big-league hits, including a home run, and the San Francisco Giants salvaged one win in their four-game home series against the Atlanta Braves with a 6-0 victory Thursday afternoon.

Casey Schmitt also homered for the Giants, who began the showdown series 1 1/2 games behind the Braves in the National League wild-card race and needed Thursday’s win to finish it 3 1/2 games back.

Webb (11-8) didn’t allow a run for the second time in his last four starts, limiting the Braves to four hits and one walk. He struck out seven.

Logan Webb has won each of his last 4 starts and has a 0.61 ERA with 2 ER over that span 🕸️ pic.twitter.com/ELwZ99dpH9

— MLB (@MLB) August 15, 2024

Giants vs. Braves recap

The All-Star has lowered his ERA from 3.72 to 3.17 by allowing just two runs in his last 29 1/3 innings.

Playing in his second major league game, McCray got the Giants on the board in the second with a bases-loaded squeeze bunt that plated a sliding Jerar Encarnacion. The bunt was ruled a hit, McCray’s first.

When Tyler Fitzgerald followed with a sacrifice fly off Braves starter Max Fried (7-7), the Giants had a 2-0 lead.

Fried and Webb traded zeroes after that until the last of the sixth, when the Atlanta left-hander walked Mike Yastrzemski with one out and was pulled from the game. He then watched Schmitt belt his fifth homer, a two-run shot, off Braves reliever Jesse Chavez before McCray went deep with a solo blast.

Fried was charged with three runs on five hits in 5 1/3 innings. He walked three and struck out five.

Back-to-back doubles by Heliot Ramos and Matt Chapman completed the scoring in the seventh.

Webb’s day ended after Ramon Laureano drew a walk and Whit Merrifield singled with two outs in the eighth. Tyler Rogers came on to retire Michael Harris II on a fly to left to maintain the shutout.

Schmitt finished with three hits for the Giants, who snapped a four-game losing streak. Yastrzemski scored twice after a single and a walk.

All four Braves hits were singles as Atlanta fell to 4-3 on a 10-game trip that continues Friday against the Los Angeles Angels.

–Field Level Media