Giants lose second straight game to Blue Jays, this time with Logan Webb on mound

Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News on Jul 19, 2025

Published in Baseball

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The Toronto Blue Jays have illustrated through two games why they went into Saturday with a three-game lead in the American League East.

The San Francisco Giants, meanwhile, continue to plod along on the fringe of the National League wild-card race after a 6-3 road loss at Rogers Centre.

Toronto (57-41) broke through for four runs against Giants starter Logan Webb (9-7) in the sixth inning after getting plenty of baserunners but no runs through the first five. The Giants (52-47) got a pair of solo home runs from Willy Adames – his 13th and 14th of the season – and a sacrifice fly from Heliot Ramos but nothing else.

Left-hander Eric Lauer (5-2) was the winning pitcher for Toronto, getting relief help from Chad Green, Brenden Little and Jeff Hoffman finishing up with an inning each. Hoffman recorded his 23rd save.

Tyler Heineman of Toronto hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth against Ryan Walker, his third of the season. Heineman played briefly for the Giants in 2020.

Adames’ second home run of the game came against Green in the seventh inning. It left the bat at 107.5 miles per hour and carried 386 feet, getting the Giants within 4-3.

Lauer was done after six innings, throwing 81 pitches with 58 strikes. He had no walks and seven strikeouts, including five of the first six Giants’ hitters.

Webb kept working out of trouble through five innings before Toronto finally capitalized on all the traffic on the bases in the sixth, scoring four times to take a 4-2 lead.

Bo Bichette opened with a single and was doubled to third by Addison Barger. Webb got Joey Loperfido on an infield pop-up before Ernie Clement singled on a seven-pitch at-bat, scoring Bichette and sending Barger to third.

That brought up Will Wagner, who doubled in between Luis Matos in left and Jung Hoo Lee to bring in two runs. Heineman then hit a sinking liner to Ramos, with the Giants left fielder getting a poor break on the ball and then failing to secure it on a dive. It went for a double and another run.

By the time Webb got the third out, he’d thrown 24 pitches in the inning after not throwing more than 13 in any of the previous five innings. Randy Rodriguez took over in the seventh, with Webb having a 70% strike percentage (56 of 80) but giving up the four earned runs on 11 hits.

After Lauer had retried the first 12 batters, Adames hit a 391-foot home run to left field to give the Giants their first run of the game on their first hit. It was also their first run in 13 innings against Toronto. The ball left the bat at 106.5 miles per hour, with Adames giving an admiring look as it sailed over the fence.

In the sixth, Matos doubled into the left field corner, went to third on a fly to center by Patrick Bailey and scored on a fly to right by Ramos. Matos scored despite a strong throw from Barger in right field.

It was an unusual first three innings for Webb, who economized his pitch count (32) while at the same time giving up four hits, a walk and a hit batter. He was helped by two double plays, including a line drive to Casey Schmitt by Bichette to end the third.

Lauer, meanwhile, gave up nothing through four innings, struck out five and threw 56 pitches.

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