Giants enjoy blowout win over Phillies as every starter reaches base multiple times

Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News on Apr 16, 2025

Published in Baseball

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PHILADELPHIA — Every member of the Giants’ starting lineup reached base multiple times as San Francisco blew out the Philadelphia Phillies, 11-4, on Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park.

Mike Yastrzemski, Jung Hoo Lee, Wilmer Flores and Patrick Bailey all drove in two runs while Yastrzemski, Lee, Matt Chapman and Tyler Fitzgerald enjoyed multi-hit games.

Fitzgerald, in particular, enjoyed his second three-hit game of the series. He entered this road trip with a .219 batting average and .546 OPS, but following tonight’s performance, Fitzgerald is up to a .314 batting average an .842 OPS.

Robbie Ray allowed four earned runs over four innings and threw 93 pitches in the process, but Lou Trivino, Camilo Doval and Spencer Bivens combined to throw five scoreless innings of relief.

The Giants (13-5) plated four runs in the top of the first inning on Lee’s RBI single, Flores’ bases-loaded walk and Bailey’s two-run single, forcing the Phillies’ (10-8) Aaron Nola to throw 35 pitches in the process. As Nola walked off the field, the fans at Citizens Bank Park showered him with boos.

Those four runs appeared to be more than enough for Ray, but San Francisco’s starter couldn’t find the strike zone. The Phillies totaled one lone hit in the first inning — a leadoff single by Trea Turner — but scored two runs as Ray walked four batters in the frame, two of which were with the bases loaded. Ray, himself, needed 39 pitches to record three outs, throwing so much that reliever Spencer Bivens began warming up.

In the bottom of the fourth, the Phillies earned their runs off Ray. Bryce Harper hit his second two-run homer in as many days, and Philadelphia tied the game at four apiece.

The Giants re-gained the lead the following half-inning thanks in part to a questionable throw from Phillies center fielder Johan Rojas. With Lee on second with a double, Chapman hit a single to center field. Lee stopped at third, but Rojas fired an errant throw up the third-base line that skipped past all of his teammates and bounced out of play, allowing Lee to score and giving the Giants a 5-4 lead that they’d never lose. From there, San Francisco continued to pile on.

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