Giants light up Brewers with 20 hits and Eric Haase's grand slam to split series
MILWAUKEE - Perhaps something about the Brewers rubbed off on the San Francisco Giants in the series finale Thursday, at least early on.
The Giants strung hits together, took some walks, got some clutch two-strike hits and then finally got a big blast from a former Brewer, Eric Haase, who crushed the team's fifth grand slam in 2½ weeks. San Francisco beat the NL Central leaders 12-9, splitting the four game series before heading to Chicago to play the down-on-their-luck Cubs, losers of 18 of their past 23 entering Thursday.
"Today we felt like an actual team offense, not just a bunch of guys going up there trying to make stuff happen, you know?" Haase said. "At-bats were leading off each other, that led to wearing down starters, wearing down bullpen guys. That's the kind of stuff we want going forward, tons of eight-nine pitch at-bats, get on, the next guy comes up, has success. We just haven't been able to kind of click on that, so it's super encouraging to see."
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The Giants earned a 1-0 victory as staff ace Logan Webb took a no-hitter into the seventh and Keaton Winn protected the slim lead Victor Bericoto created with his first MLB homer.
Every member of the starting lineup had at least one hit and Jung Hoo Lee had a four-hit game to extend the major's longest current hit streak to 12 games, the longest of his career; he's batting .522 during the stretch. Bryce Eldridge had three hits to extend his on-base streak to 11 games during which he has a .532 on-base percentage.
"It's like those two guys are getting on base every single time," Haase said. "They've obviously been unconscious, they've been locked in and that's setting the table up for the rest of the lineup."
Giants 12, Brewers 9
San Francisco
AB
R
H
BI
BB
SO
Avg.
Totals
45
12
20
12
2
5
Schmitt lf-2b-1b
5
1
2
2
0
0
.282
Devers 1b
6
1
1
0
0
1
.240
1-Kennedy pr-2b
0
0
0
0
0
0
.000
Arraez 2b
4
1
2
1
0
0
.325
Cox cf
1
0
0
0
0
0
.167
Adames ss
6
1
2
1
0
1
.244
Lee rf
5
3
4
1
0
0
.322
Eldridge dh
4
2
3
1
1
0
.286
Chapman 3b
5
1
3
2
0
0
.235
Haase c
4
1
1
4
1
2
.282
Gilbert cf-lf
5
1
2
0
0
1
.236
Milwaukee
AB
R
H
BI
BB
SO
Avg.
Totals
36
9
11
9
8
8
Yelich dh
5
2
2
0
0
0
.289
Chourio lf-cf-lf
4
4
3
4
1
1
.308
Turang 2b
3
0
2
0
0
1
.280
b-Sánchez ph-c
2
1
1
0
0
1
.196
Contreras c
2
0
0
1
0
1
.285
c-Ortiz ph-ss
1
1
0
0
1
0
.192
Bauers 1b-lf
1
0
0
0
2
1
.269
d-Perkins ph-cf
0
0
0
1
2
0
.091
Mitchell cf
1
0
0
0
1
1
.234
a-Vaughn ph-1b
3
0
0
0
0
1
.319
Frelick rf
5
0
1
1
0
1
.223
Rengifo 3b
5
0
1
1
0
0
.204
Hamilton ss-2b
4
1
1
1
1
0
.231
San Francisco
303
000
600_12
20
1
Milwaukee
100
020
213_9
11
0
a-pinch hit for Mitchell in the 5th. b-struck out for Turang in the 7th. c-lined out for Contreras in the 7th. d-walked for Bauers in the 7th.
1-ran for Devers in the 9th.
E_Adames (11). LOB_San Francisco 10, Milwaukee 9. 2B_Chapman (16), Adames (18), Lee (13), Arraez (12), Devers (19), Yelich (7), Turang (13). HR_Schmitt (13), off Crow; Haase (4), off Woodford; Chourio (3), off Houser; Chourio (4), off Brubaker; Hamilton (2), off Beck. RBIs_Schmitt 2 (35), Eldridge (6), Chapman 2 (23), Lee (21), Haase 4 (9), Arraez (24), Adames (25), Contreras (37), Chourio 4 (16), Hamilton (10), Perkins (8), Frelick (20), Rengifo (16). SB_Turang (11). CS_Hamilton (4). SF_Schmitt, Arraez, Contreras.
Runners left in scoring position_San Francisco 7 (Gilbert 3, Eldridge, Adames 2, Devers); Milwaukee 4 (Mitchell, Hamilton, Rengifo, Vaughn). RISP_San Francisco 8 for 17; Milwaukee 2 for 9.
Runners moved up_Haase.
San Francisco
IP
H
R
ER
BB
SO
NP
ERA
Houser
4
1-3
5
3
2
3
5
82
5.49
Hentges, W, 1-0
2-3
0
0
0
1
1
15
2.08
Brubaker, H, 1
2
2
2
2
2
1
46
3.09
Beck
1
1
1
1
0
0
12
10.50
Ramos
0
2
3
3
2
0
21
22.50
Kilian, S, 4-5
1
1
0
0
0
1
13
3.58
Milwaukee
IP
H
R
ER
BB
SO
NP
ERA
Crow, L, 0-1
2
1-3
9
6
6
2
2
70
5.94
Hall
2
1-3
1
0
0
0
1
27
2.03
Anderson
1
1-3
3
2
2
0
1
30
3.16
Woodford
3
7
4
4
0
1
56
6.94
Ramos pitched to 4 batters in the 9th
Inherited runners-scored_Hentges 1-0, Kilian 3-2, Hall 3-1, Anderson 1-0, Woodford 2-2.
ABS Challenge_Bauers (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Yelich (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Anderson (Ball-Confirmed); Eldridge (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Frelick (Strike-Confirmed).
Umpires_Home, Edwin Jimenez; First, Ramon De Jesus; Second, Paul Clemons; Third, Quinn Wolcott.
T_3:21. A_32,570 (41,700).
Matt Chapman also had three hits. His single in the Giants' big seventh registered 110 mph, the hardest-hit ball of the game, and he's batting .361 with 10 doubles and 19 RBIs with runners in scoring position this year. "The swings have been coming," manager Tony Vitello said. "He's been knocking on that door."
The Giants' 20 hits were the team's most ever at American Family Field.
Haase's blast in the Giants' six-run seventh might overshadow the nice work he did the previous inning in throwing out David Hamilton to end the inning; a stolen base there would have brought Christian Yelich, on fire throughout the series, up with a man in scoring position in what was then a 6-3 game.
The most impressive play of the day came in the seventh, when Giants center fielder Drew Gilbert leaped at the fence to rob Andrew Vaughn of a homer, then stalked forward with the ball held aloft like a trophy as Lee signaled touchdown.
"I wouldn't expect anything else," said reliever JT Brubaker, who was on the mound as Gilbert strutted off.
Gilbert had been upset two games earlier when he went back for a drive by Jackson Chourio in the eighth, hit the wall and lost the ball, and so he made an adjustment that paid off Thursday.
"When you go up, you don't want to really hit the wall until after you catch the ball," Gilbert said. "The one earlier in the week I made impact with the wall, not hard, but just enough before I caught the ball to throw me off just a tick."
Casey Schmitt banged the first leadoff homer of his unusual leadoff-man career, his career-high 13th of the season and a team high.
He said he's still getting acclimated to the new spot in the order - no one would have foreseen Schmitt playing left and batting leadoff entering the season, "nor did I," Vitello said - but, he said, "I think anytime you can get that first punch, that's huge and it just kind of just followed from there and everyone put really good swings on the ball."
The Giants scored twice more in the inning with a rally that included two-out hits by Lee, Eldridge and Chapman; Chapman's double came on a 0-2 pitch from Coleman Crow.
Those three connected again in the third. Willy Adames opened the inning with a double, Lee followed with an RBI double, Eldridge walked and Chapman sent Lee in with a base hit. With one out, Gilbert added a single, and Schmitt pushed Eldridge in with a sacrifice fly. Methodical, good at-bats including the walk, not trying to do too much - methods Milwaukee used in wins in the first two games here.
Eldridge, a 21-year-old rookie, stands out in that respect. He has seven walks in his 11-game on-base streak, and he's scored 10 runs.
"For the youngest guy on the roster, he has the best takes as far as the calm and the position he's in to hit," Vitello said, "and I think that allows him to get on base, in addition to the hitting, because the walks are there."
Adrian Houser, for a time, appeared as if he might be the only Giants' starter apart from Logan Webb the night before to make it through the fifth, entering the inning having allowed just one run against his longtime former team.
He gave up a two-run homer to Jackson Chourio, though, and, after allowing Brice Turang a double, he exited. Sam Hentges entered in relief, struck out William Contreras, walked Jake Bauers and got pinch hitter Vaughn to hit into an inning-ending force.
The bullpen was a little too porous for a blowout win, allowing four runs, and Wilkin Ramos, called up at the start of this series, walked in a run and left the bases loaded with no one out in the ninth, requiring Caleb Kilian to come in. He struck out one, gave up an RBI force and an RBI single before trusty Gilbert caught Hamilton's drive to center on the track to end the game.
Giants pitchers walked 28 in the four-game series.
"You're not going to win games when you walk eight guys, you're just not," Vitello said, "but (the hitters) were able to do some things today to make it happen."
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