Giants snap seven-game losing streak at Rays’ expense
Logan Webb was brilliant during Sunday's finale between the San Francisco Giants and Tampa Bay Rays, as a seven-game skid came to a an end.
(Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)
(Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)
Logan Webb threw seven shutout innings, Dominic Smith drove in three runs with a broken-bat single, and the San Francisco Giants snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 7-1 home win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday afternoon.
Drew Gilbert and Tyler Fitzgerald chipped in with back-to-back home runs for the Giants, who completed a nine-game homestand with wins at both ends, sandwiching seven losses in the middle.
Webb (11-9) allowed just three hits — all singles — without issuing a walk in his seven innings, the first six of which were pitched in a scoreless tie. He struck out seven.
Recap: San Francisco Gians snap skid
The Giants’ ace benefited from a highlight-reel catch in right-center field by Jung Hoo Lee in the fourth. He ran down Yandy Diaz’s deep blast, got a glove on it while diving, then, while on the ground, trapped the ball between his knees for an out.
Rays starter Ryan Pepiot (8-10) matched Webb for five innings, then got the first two San Francisco Giants out in the sixth before singles by Heliot Ramos and Rafael Devers and a walk to Willy Adames loaded the bases.
The San Francisco Giants had gone 1 for their last 22 with runners in scoring position, but Smith hit a soft liner down the right-field line. Ramos and Devers scored and, when Rays right fielder Jake Mangum threw toward second base to prevent Smith from advancing, Adames kept running and beat a throw to the plate to complete the bases-clearing play.
Christian Koss followed with an RBI double to make it 4-0 and end the day for Pepiot, who was charged with four runs and six hits in 5 2/3 innings. He walked two and struck out eight.
The homers by Gilbert, the first of his big-league career, and Fitzgerald, his fourth of the season, added to the San Francisco Giants’ lead in the seventh. Gilbert added a second hit and second RBI with a single in the eighth.
Diaz, the hero of Tampa Bay’s one-run wins in the first two games of the series, produced the visitors’ only run with a two-out infield single in the top of the eighth.
Devers and Koss joined Gilbert with two hits apiece for the Giants, who won for the second time in their last 17 home games.
Ha-Seong Kim had a pair of singles for the Rays, who wrapped up a two-week road trip at 6-6.
–Field Level Media
When is the next San Francisco Giants game?
- Monday, August 18th – Thursday, August 21st – @ San Diego Padres
- Friday, August 22nd – Sunday, August 24th – @ Milwaukee Brewers
- Tuesday, August 26th – Thursday, August 28th – vs. Chicago Cubs
- Friday, August 29th – Sunday, August 31st – vs. Baltimore Orioles
- Monday, September 1st – Wednesday, September 3rd – @ Colorado Rockies
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