The Giants finally gave their fans something to cheer about Friday night, and they did it in a way that felt tailor-made for a packed Oracle Park on Pokémon Night.
After a brutal ninth-inning collapse earlier in the week, San Francisco steadied itself with four scoreless innings from Trent Harris, Carson Seymour and Ryan Walker and rolled past the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-1. The win came in front of a rare sellout crowd, the kind of atmosphere the Giants haven’t seen often as attendance has thinned along with the team’s struggles.
Landen Roupp set the tone on the mound before the bullpen finished the job. Roupp allowed one run over five innings, striking out three and walking two while navigating a messy fourth inning. It also snapped a stretch of five straight outings in which he had issued at least three walks.
San Francisco’s offense gave him an early cushion. Gilbert opened the scoring in the bottom of the first with the first leadoff homer of his career, his fourth home run of the month, and the Giants carried that 1-0 edge until the fourth.
That’s when Gabriel Moreno answered for Arizona with a solo shot to left field. Moreno came into the game with a 1.058 OPS against San Francisco this season, and he didn’t miss when he got his pitch.
The Diamondbacks had a chance to push in front on the same inning, but the Giants shut it down with a sharp defensive play. Ildemaro Vargas sent a fly ball to left, Turner Hill came up firing with a strong, accurate throw, and catcher Drew Cavanaugh didn’t need to move a foot. Gerlado Perdomo, who was on third, broke hard for the plate before retreating back.
San Francisco reclaimed the lead in the fifth when Gilbert drove in his second run of the night on a sacrifice fly to make it 2-1.
Then came the separation. The Giants piled on four insurance runs in the eighth, with Bryce Eldridge delivering an RBI double, Jonah Cox and Turner Hill each adding RBI singles, and Shay Whitcomb finishing a squeeze play.
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