Giants win series against Brewers as Adames drives in go-ahead run vs. old team

Justice delos Santos, Bay Area News Group on Apr 24, 2025

Published in Baseball

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SAN FRANCISCO — With the exception of Tuesday’s blowout loss, the Giants have been in every game that they’ve played this season. Comeback victories, whether in Cincinnati or New York or Philadelphia, have become the norm. Thursday, then, provided more of the same — with an added twist.

Willy Adames, who played for Milwaukee for three and a half seasons, drove in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth inning against his former team to complete a three-run comeback as the Giants defeated the Brewers, 6-5, on Thursday afternoon at Oracle Park to take three of four.

San Francisco entered the bottom of the fifth trailing Milwaukee, 5-2, but Matt Chapman brought the Giants within one by homering off Abner Uribe’s 100.4-mph sinker, the fastest pitch that a Giants player has homered against in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008), usurping the 100.2-mph four-seam fastball that Heliot Ramos sent into McCovey Cove for the first Splash Hit by a right-handed hitter.

Entering the bottom of the eighth trailing by one run, Tyler Fitzgerald began the frame with a leadoff walk against the Brewers’ Tyler Alexander, then advanced to third base on Wilmer Flores’ pinch-hit single to right field. Christian Koss, pinch running for Flores, advanced to second on Luis Matos’ groundout, putting runners on second and third with one out for the top of San Francisco’s order. Mike Yastrzemski hit a weak grounder with the Brewers’ infield playing in, but Fitzgerald ran on contact and beat the throw home to tie the game at five apiece.

With the score evened up, Adames stepped to the plate against the Brewers’ Tylor Megill with an opportunity to play the hero. On a 3-2 count, Adames hit a line drive at left fielder Christian Yelich that was just deep enough for Koss to take a chance and try to tag. He’d end up scoring without a throw. Yelich dropped Adames’ line drive, and Koss scored easily to give the Giants a 6-5 lead. Adames originally wasn’t awarded an RBI, but the scoring was later changed to give Adames a sacrifice fly and an RBI.

Camilo Doval — not Ryan Walker — recorded the save in the ninth inning.