Giants blast seven home runs, including another grand slam, in rout of Cubs
CHICAGO - A day after their lineup merrily mashed away in Milwaukee, the San Francisco Giants waited through an hour's rain delay and then got right back to work at Wrigley Field.
Matt Chapman hit the team's second grand slam in two days and sixth in the past 20 days, and the slow-starting third baseman drove in eight runs in all in San Francisco's 18-3 romp over the Cubs on Friday. The Giants are the seventh team in big-league history to hit six grand slams in a 20-day span, according to MLB.com sportswriter Sarah Langs. Chapman's eight RBIs are the most in a major league game this year.
The team's 30 runs over the past two games are the Giants' most since 1944, per Langs.
"Emphatic," manager Tony Vitello said of the back-to-back attacks. "The offense has been marching in a really strong direction with the swings they take. You don't score double-digit runs very often at all, but the swings and the takes and the potential for that to happen has been gaining strength."
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Casey Schmitt added two homers, giving him a team-high 15, among his four hits. Willy Adames hit a two-run homer all the way out of Wrigley Field in the first inning, hit another two-run shot in the sixth and reached base four times, scored four runs and drove in four. He has homered eight times over his past 17 games and is batting .300 with 23 RBIs in the past 25 games.
Schmitt's 15 homers through the first 64 games are the most by a Giants batter since Barry Bonds opened the 2004 season with 18.
Giants 18, Cubs 3
San Francisco
AB
R
H
BI
BB
SO
Avg.
Totals
44
18
19
18
2
9
Schmitt lf-ss
6
3
4
3
0
1
.293
Devers 1b
5
1
2
1
0
2
.243
Haase lf
1
0
0
0
0
0
.275
Arraez 2b
5
2
2
1
0
0
.326
Adames ss
2
4
2
4
2
0
.250
c-Bericoto ph-rf-1b
2
0
0
0
0
0
.214
Lee rf-cf-rf
4
1
1
0
0
1
.321
Eldridge dh
5
2
2
0
0
1
.293
Chapman 3b
3
2
2
8
0
1
.241
Kennedy 3b
1
0
0
0
0
0
.000
Susac c
5
0
0
0
0
2
.310
Gilbert cf
2
1
1
0
0
1
.240
a-Cox ph-cf-lf-cf
3
2
3
1
0
0
.444
Chicago
AB
R
H
BI
BB
SO
Avg.
Totals
33
3
8
3
6
7
Hoerner 2b
3
0
0
0
0
0
.250
Conforto lf
2
0
1
0
0
1
.259
Crow-Armstrong cf
2
0
1
0
1
0
.248
Alcantara cf
2
0
0
0
0
1
.111
Bregman 3b
4
0
0
0
1
0
.251
Suzuki rf
1
2
1
1
3
0
.247
Happ lf
2
0
0
0
0
1
.235
b-Ramirez ph-2b
2
1
2
0
0
0
.250
Kelly dh-p
4
0
2
1
0
1
.289
Busch 1b
3
0
0
0
1
2
.242
Amaya c
4
0
1
1
0
1
.222
Swanson ss
4
0
0
0
0
0
.180
San Francisco
200
617
002_18
19
0
Chicago
000
001
020_3
8
0
a-singled for Gilbert in the 6th. b-singled for Happ in the 6th. c-grounded out for Adames in the 7th.
LOB: San Francisco 4, Chicago 9. 2B: Arraez (13), Lee (14), Devers (20), Amaya (3). HR: Adames (10), off Cabrera; Chapman (3), off Cabrera; Schmitt (14), off Cabrera; Adames (11), off Milner; Chapman (4), off Roberts; Cox (1), off Kelly; Schmitt (15), off Kelly; Suzuki (9), off Seymour. RBIs: Adames 4 (29), Chapman 8 (31), Schmitt 3 (38), Devers (31), Arraez (25), Cox (1), Kelly (18), Suzuki (21), Amaya (10). SF: Chapman, Arraez.
Runners left in scoring position: San Francisco 2 (Susac, Devers); Chicago 4 (Swanson, Bregman, Happ 2). RISP: San Francisco 6 for 10; Chicago 1 for 7.
Runners moved up: Busch, Alcantara. GIDP: Bregman, Amaya.
DP: San Francisco 2 (Chapman, Arraez, Devers; Chapman, Arraez, Devers).
San Francisco
IP
H
R
ER
BB
SO
NP
ERA
Ray, W, 4-6
5
2
0
0
5
4
97
4.12
Seymour, H, 1
3
6
3
3
1
1
45
9.00
Smith
1
0
0
0
0
2
12
0.00
Chicago
IP
H
R
ER
BB
SO
NP
ERA
Cabrera, L, 3-3
3
2-3
8
8
8
1
6
80
4.99
Maton
1
1-3
1
1
1
1
1
27
7.08
Milner
1-3
5
6
6
0
0
22
4.18
Roberts
1
2-3
3
1
1
0
2
29
1.96
Thielbar
1
0
0
0
0
0
13
3.77
Kelly
1
2
2
2
0
0
6
18.00
Inherited runners-scored: Maton 1-0, Roberts 2-2. HBP: Milner (Lee). WP: Ray.
Umpires: Home, Alex Tosi; First, Willie Traynor; Second, Andy Fletcher; Third, Cory Blaser.
T: 2:53. A: 39,060 (41,363).
Among the Giants' seven homers (their most at Wrigley): Rookie Jonah Cox hit the first of his big-league career, off catcher Carson Kelly, pitching in the ninth inning of the blowout. Cox's first big-league hit came Sunday at Colorado off a catcher, Brett Sullivan.
"You hate to say something's never happened before in baseball, but I bet it's never happened," Vitello said.
"That would be cool," Cox said. "I'm just enjoying it."
Cox wasn't sure whether the ball was retrieved, but he did get the traditional dousing in condiments. "Everything," he said when asked what he was soaked in. "I think I got toothpaste in my ear. That was interesting."
Cox entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the sixth, singled to lead off the inning, and recorded another hit later in the inning - two hits before even playing in the field. It was that kind of game.
"They kind of established the tone really early, and I was just trying to continue that," he said.
The two constants of late, Jung Hoo Lee and Bryce Eldridge, kept doing their things. Lee's hitting streak stands at a current major-league-high 13 after a double in the the fifth, and Eldridge, slowly nudging his way into possible rookie honors consideration, extended his on-base streak with an infield single in the fourth, then he singled in the middle of the team's seven-run sixth. He scored twice, because Chapman was hitting behind him.
And there was a notable accomplishment on the mound, too. Logan Webb in his tremendous start Wednesday aside, Giants starters haven't been able to get through five innings. Robbie Ray did so, just. He threw 97 pitches thanks to five walks, but he allowed only two hits and struck out four in his scoreless outing.
The previous day, San Francisco beat the Brewers, the NL Central leaders, 12-9, and last Sunday, in the trip's first stop, the Giants blasted the Rockies 19-6. This from a club that hit .247 with a .657 OPS in April (second lowest in the majors) and scored a big league low 104 runs.
"Obviously we didn't have many guys swinging the bat early, and it seems like everybody's kind of come alive at a similar time," Chapman said. "The quality of at-bats have been really good and … everybody felt like there's probably more in the tank. We score a lot of runs and it looks great on the scoreboard, but just kind of the quality of at-bats everybody's been taking down the line for the last couple weeks is probably what's led to this.
"Even when we make outs, I feel like we're being tough outs, tough for pitchers to get through our lineup. That makes it fun and allows us to, if one guy doesn't do it, the next guy does it. That's something that we can build on and just try to keep it rolling."
Chapman was one of the few decent hitters in March and April, hitting .271, but his May was abysmal. He hit .186 with zero homers and seven RBIs.
"He helps us every single day become a different team with his glove at third, and by the end of the year, he's going to be the offensive player on the back of his baseball card that he always has been," Vitello said.
On May 16, Chapman was batting .216. He's batting .241 after his two homers Friday; he also hit one at Milwaukee on Monday.
"I haven't been doing anything different over the last week," he said. "I feel like I'm repeating the swing I've been taking. Even in Colorado, I didn't get the results maybe that I was looking for, but I felt like my at-bats were good. Then we went to Milwaukee and I hit that home run, then got a few more hits yesterday, so I felt like I was starting to feel more comfortable in the box, feel like I'm on time, getting good swings off.
"It feels good to be able to drive the ball and feel like I'm able to execute what I want to do."
Wrigley was the last ballpark Chapman hadn't homered in - well, he said, unless you count Sacramento. "I got Sacramento in Triple-A, so we'll count it," he said, smiling.
San Francisco collected 20 hits Thursday and 19 more on Friday. If the pitching starts to eliminate the walks that have crept in over the past month, the Giants might finally get the offense and pitching in sync.
Vitello used a 80s TV animation metaphor for that scenario.
"If those guys start to attack the way they have in the past," he said, "then maybe we've got - shout out to Voltron, everybody assemble - everybody going in the right direction."
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This story was originally published June 5, 2026 at 7:08 PM.