Matt Chapman's grand slam snapped a three-game losing streak for the San Francisco Giants, who missed three straight games due to injury.
The Giants won 5-1 in the second game of their three-game home series against the Cincinnati Reds at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, USA, on Wednesday (June 12).
The Giants snapped a two-game losing streak and improved to 18-23 on the season after avenging a loss the day before. Cincinnati, meanwhile, dropped to 17-22 after failing to win two straight.
San Francisco's offense exploded in the first inning. After a one-out walk, Ramonte Wade Jr. and Patrick Bailey followed with back-to-back singles to put runners on first and second. After Wilmer Flores struck out swinging, Heliot Ramos drew a walk to load the bases, and Matt Chapman, who played with Hyun-jin Ryu last year with the Toronto Blue Jays, hit a leadoff home run.
Chapman faced Cincinnati starter Nick Rodolo and worked a 1B-2S count, but took a 93.1-mph (149-kilometer) four-seam fastball up the middle and over the center field fence. It was his fifth home run of the season.
Cincinnati got a run back in the top of the fourth on Eli De La Cruz's mid-month solo homer. Like Chapman, 안전놀이터 추천 De La Cruz worked a 1B-2S count in favor of San Francisco starter Mason Black on a six-pitch fastball that traveled 91.9 mph (147 km/h) for his ninth home run of the season.
The San Francisco bats came alive again in the seventh. After back-to-back singles by Tyler Fitzgerald and Tyro Estrada, Wade Jr. loaded the bases with a sacrifice fly to center field, and Bailey drove in the game-winning run with a sacrifice fly to center field.
For San Francisco, Taylor Rogers picked up the save with ⅔ scoreless innings of relief after Black was tagged for four runs on four hits (one homer) with two walks and two strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings. At the plate, Chapman was a one-man show, going 2-for-4 with four RBIs, including the game-winning home run.
Meanwhile, Cincinnati starter Rodolo suffered his second loss of the season (3-2) after allowing four runs on five hits (one homer) and one walk with six strikeouts in six innings.
Meanwhile, Lee, who injured his left foot on a foul ball he hit against the Colorado Rockies on April 9, was given three consecutive days off.
Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle reported, "Lee went through pregame drills on the field on the 11th as normal. He appeared to be moving better," she wrote.