SAN FRANCISCO — Comebacks have been the norm for the Giants early this season, but Thursday’s game against the Brewers came 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).
Entering the bottom of the eighth trailing by one run, Tyler Fitzgerald worked 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, moved to second on Luis Matos’ groundout, putting runners on second and third with one out for the top of the 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.
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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 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..
Camilo Doval — not Ryan Walker, who has struggled over the last week — recorded the save in the ninth inning.