Backup catcher Haase's two homers power SF Giants to win over Dodgers

Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News on May 13, 2026

Published in Baseball

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LOS ANGELES — With Daniel Susac nearing his return from injury, a significant decision looms for the Giants: Do they carry veteran backstop Eric Haase along with Susac and Jesús Rodríguez? On Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium, Haase provided two loud reasons to stay — and etched his name into rivalry lore in the process.

Haase powered San Francisco to a 6-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers by blasting a pair of home runs off 2025 World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto, becoming the first-ever Giants catcher with a multi-homer game at this venue.

For Haase, Tuesday night marked the seventh multi-homer game of his career. He becomes the first Giant (18-24) with a multi-homer game at Dodger Stadium since David Villar on Sept. 7, 2022.

The most fun stat to come out of Haase’s two-homer day is that he became the first Giants catcher with a multi-homer game against the Dodgers (while catching) since Bob Melvin, the team’s former manager, on Sept. 22, 1987.

Haase nearly hit a third home run in the seventh, hitting a 399-foot fly out to dead center field that faded at the warning track. Along with Haase, center fielder Harrison Bader hit his second homer of the season in his second game back from the injured list.

For Yamamoto, the 2025 World Series MVP, this marks the first time in his career he’s allowed two homers to the same player in the same game, as well as the first time he’s allowed three homers in a single game.

This also marks the third time this season that the Giants have hit three homers in a single game.

Right-hander Adrian Houser surrendered a homer and allowed two runs over 5 2/3 innings with four strikeouts.

The Dodgers took a 1-0 lead in the first with a sacrifice fly from Will Smith to drive in Ohtani. Los Angeles could’ve put up a crooked number if Smith’s line drive landed for an extra-base hit, but right fielder Jung Hoo Lee made a difficult, leaping catch to minimize the damage.

Haase tied the game at one apiece in the top of the third with a solo shot, his first homer of the night, but Ohtani gave the Dodgers a 2-1 lead in the bottom half of the frame with a solo homer of his own.

Yamamoto continued rolling after allowing the homer to Haase, but in the top of the fifth, the bottom of San Francisco’s order turned a one-run deficit into a one-run lead in a span of two pitches.

After Bader tied the game at two with a solo homer, Haase ambushed Yamamoto’s very next pitch and stunned Dodger Stadium with his second solo shot of the night, giving San Francisco a 3-2 lead.

San Francisco added some much-needed insurance in the seventh, bringing their lead to 6-2. Drew Gilbert entered as a pinch-hitter for Bader and manufactured a run with a bunt, then Lee drove in a pair of runs with a double to the right-center field gap.

The Dodgers had a chance to tie the game with one swing in the eighth when they loaded the bases with one against left-hander Sam Hentges on two walks and a double, but the Giants’ bullpen slithered its way out of trouble.

Hentges struck out Max Muncy looking on a fastball that was barely out of the zone (Muncy didn’t challenge), then Caleb Kilian entered with two outs and got Andy Pages to hit an inning-ending fly out.

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