Jake Fraley's terrific diving catch in foul territory
Webb keeps Sexton at bay with wire-to-wire win
After falling to Chase Sexton in back-to-back races, Cooper Webb delivers a wire-to-wire victory at Pittsburgh Supercross to pad his 450 points lead with two rounds remaining and the championship in sight.
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San Francisco Chronicle
2 days ago
- San Francisco Chronicle
Matt Chapman's first Giants walk-off HR gives S.F. another one-run win
San Francisco's hesitant offense has an unhappy tendency of disappearing during Logan Webb 's starts. Going into Saturday, Webb had by far the lowest run support among the Giants ' starters and that continued all the way through his time on the mound against the Braves. Then came the ninth inning, when the Giants used their other offensive technique, the walkoff win, making it two in a row. With two outs and another great Webb performance looking as if it were for naught, Matt Chapman clocked a two-run homer to propel San Francisco to a 3-2 victory over Atlanta, the team's MLB-high eighth walkoff win of the season. It was Chapman's first walkoff homer for San Francisco – and his first walkoff hit and RBI with the team. Atlanta starter Bryce Elder was just as terrific as Webb on Saturday, striking out a career-high 12 and allowing just three hits in eight innings. It was Elder's first career appearance against San Francisco, only one start removed from a 15-day trip to the minors. But Piece Johnson got the ninth and again was on the wrong side of a walkoff; he had also uncorked the decisive wild pitch in the 10th inning on Friday. Trust Webb to be the guy on the mound when an opposing pitcher put together his best start of the year: He gets just 2.8 runs per 27 outs while being the pitcher of record. The run support for the rest of the regular starters is slightly more robust: Robbie Ray gets 4.4 runs of support per 27 outs while the pitcher of record; Landen Roupp 4.0; Justin Verlander 3.8; Jordan Hicks, 3.8; Hayden Birdsong 3.4, all per Webb struck out 10 in his six innings and walked zero; over his past four starts, he's struck out 32 and walked one in 24 innings. That's ace stuff, All-Star stuff. Giants 3, Braves 2 Atlanta San Francisco ab r h bi ab r h bi Totals 34 2 7 2 Totals 31 3 5 3 Acuña rf 4 1 1 0 cf 4 0 1 0 Baldwin c 4 0 1 0 Ramos lf 4 1 1 0 Riley 3b 4 0 2 0 Flores dh 4 1 1 1 Olson 1b 3 0 0 0 Chapman 3b 4 1 1 2 Ozuna dh 4 0 0 1 Smith 1b 3 0 1 0 Harris cf 4 1 1 1 Adames ss 3 0 0 0 Albies 2b 3 0 1 0 Yastrzemski rf 3 0 0 0 Verdugo lf 2 0 0 0 Bailey c 3 0 0 0 White ph-lf 2 0 0 0 Fitzgerald 2b 2 0 0 0 Allen ss 4 0 1 0 ph 1 0 0 0 Schmitt 2b 0 0 0 0 Atlanta 000 011 000 — 2 San Francisco 000 100 002 — 3 LOB: Atlanta 7, San Francisco 2. 2B_Riley (11), (1). HR: Harris (4), Flores (11), Chapman (12). IP H R ER BB SO Atlanta Elder 8 3 1 1 0 12 L,1-3 BS,1-3 2-3 2 2 2 0 1 San Francisco Webb 6 6 2 2 0 10 Miller 1 0 0 0 0 0 Hjelle 1 1 0 0 1 0 Rogers W,3-2 1 0 0 0 1 0 Umpires: Home, Gabe Morales; First, Jansen Visconti; Second, Malachi Moore; Third, Andy Fletcher. T: 2:05. A: 35,162 (41,915). Saturday's outing was his fifth career game with 10 or more strikeouts and no walks. The only other Giants with as many or more since 1893 are Madison Bumgarner (12) and Tim Lincecum (five). Juan Marichal had four. Webb struck out nine of the first 14 batters Saturday, including getting Ronald Acuña Jr. and Drake Baldwin swinging with two on in the third. In the fourth, he struck out the side, all looking, something that Braves manager Brian Snitker took exception to until he was tossed by home-plate umpire Gabe Morales. Given the way Webb was working, Wilmer Flores' leadoff homer in the fourth seemed like a major blow, but the Braves love a tight game as much as the Giants do, and Michael Harris II led off the fifth with his second career homer off Webb in just 13 at-bats. Atlanta added a run in the sixth to take the lead, but Webb might have done his best work of the day that inning. Acuna, Baldwin and Austin Riley rapped singles to load the bases with no outs, and Webb got cleanup hitter Matt Olson to pop up before getting a grounder from Marcel Ozuna. Hit even slightly harder, Webb would have emerged unscathed, but Ozuna's tapper was 74 mph and Chapman could only get the runner at second, with Ozuna beating the throw to first as a run scored. Webb finished his day by striking out Harris. The Giants and Braves top the majors with 27 one-run games apiece including each of the first two games against each other this year. Each of San Francisco's past 13 games has been decided by no more than two runs, the longest streak in franchise history, eclipsing a 12-game span from May 30-June 12, 1978. Briefly: Center fielder Jung Hoo Lee got the start off because of some slight back tightness but he could have played had there been a need, manager Bob Melvin said. Lee pinch hit in the eighth and struck out. … Melvin said that Justin Verlander (pectoral strain) feels good after throwing to hutters on Friday but the team hasn't decided when he'll come off the IL. … The club announced that catcher Sam Huff, who'd been designated for assignment Tuesday, cleared waivers and was assigned outright to Triple-A Sacramento, a welcome development for a team that doesn't have a lot of catching. 'As far as the catching position goes, depth can be ominous,' Melvin said, 'We were pulling for Sam to get a major-league job but he's gotten to know our pitching staff and did well with all our starting pitchers.'
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Yahoo
From The Vault: Mark Martin pulls off stunning Michigan win
Sexton pulls off track after hard crash in Moto 1 Chase Sexton's Pro Motocross title defense is off to a tough start after tossing his goggles on the first lap and crashing hard shortly after, resulting in an early end to his first moto at Fox Raceway.
San Francisco Chronicle
7 days ago
- San Francisco Chronicle
Offense remains a mystery to Giants as Padres win with a 10-inning shutout
Perhaps we might have anticipated such an evening at Oracle Park, where the San Francisco Giants played host to division-rival San Diego. Neither team is scoring much but both are still sticking around in the NL West. The Giants entered the day with a better run differential, despite the Padres' high-profile lineup, and both teams have strong pitching. Logan Webb was tops in that category Monday, turning in eight shutout innings, but the Padres eked out a 1-0 win with a bunt and a sacrifice fly to send in the placed runner in the 10th inning against Ryan Walker. The Giants had their own chance with placed runner Jung Hoo Lee, and Christian Koss moved him to third with a bunt, but Matt Chapman hit a 109.7 mph grounder, the hardest hit ball of the night, at third baseman Jose Iglesias for the second out and Jerar Encarnacion, just off the injured list, lined out to first against Robert Suarez at 101 mph. "Extremely hard hit," manager Bob Melvin said of the final two outs. "Really, the last couple innings were probably our best at-bats throughout the course of the game, we smoked some balls in the later innings." Entering the day, San Diego was in second place, two games behind the Dodgers but with a plus-15 run differential, while the Giants were three games back with a plus-42. Webb allowed six hits, walked none and struck out seven while lowering his ERA to 2.55, and he is starting to look like a legit All-Star candidate to go along with rotation-mate Robbie Ray. "I think that's the best I've ever seen him," catcher Patrick Bailey said. Using his slider more often than usual, Webb was especially tough the few times the Padres had men in scoring position, striking out Tyler Wade with men at the corners and one out in the second — and Bailey turned it into a double play, throwing out Jake Cronenworth trying to steal second as Wade took his hack. The next inning, with runners at second and third, Webb got DH Manny Machado to pop up a 3-1 sweeper to end the inning. Three players took pitches off their hands Monday, including San Francisco first baseman LaMonte Wade Jr., who exited the game after the inning. Wade has had a miserable season, batting .167 with a .271 on-base percentage, and the team activated Encarnacion earlier in the day, giving them three potential options at first, with Casey Schmitt and Wilmer Flores also available, though all three are right-handed hitters. Melvin said that Wade had an X-ray and was diagnosed with a right hand contusion. When Stephen Kolek also added Flores to his hit-batter count in the third, the typically impassive Flores pointed at Kolek and barked a bit, even as Kolek tapped his chest to say 'my bad.' The umpire crew huddled, then home-plate umpire Ryan Willis and crew chief Lance Barksdale had a chat with San Diego manager Mike Shildt. There were no more HBPs from that point on. The Giants didn't lack for baserunners, they just couldn't do anything with them, especially in the second, when they loaded the bases in the second with no outs (their robust attack: walk, hit batter, walk). Stephen Kolek got Tyler Fitzgerald to bounce into a force that erased Willy Adames at the plate and Heliot Ramos to hit into a double play. The next inning's double play came courtesy Chapman. In the seventh, the Giants put together another stirring rally (walk, walk, walk) but with two outs, Jeremiah Estrada struck Lee out on three pitches, and in the eighth, with a chance to give Webb a W, the team had men at second and third after a Flores hit, an intentional walk to Adames and a wild pitch, but Schmitt struck out. The team went 1-for-12 with men in scoring position. In the past 10 games, they're batting .116 with runners in scoring position and have scored just 18 runs. "I know we're going to step it up eventually," Bailey said. "Obviously we have hit a lot of balls hard off one of the best pitchers in the game and it just doesn't go our way." Chapman did provide one of the few fun moments of the night with a leaping catch in the seventh that robbed Cronenworth of a hit.
