SAN FRANCISCO — Willy Adames touched home twice by his own accord and was the first person to meet Christian Koss as he dove across the plate.
The Giants’ shortstop homered twice, drove in three runs and made a mad dash from the dugout railing as soon as it became clear Koss would score from second base on Jung Hoo Lee’s walkoff line drive single into right field that secured a three-game sweep over the Chicago Cubs, 4-3, on Thursday afternoon.
The walk-off win gave the suddenly red-hot Giants their fifth win in a row while securing their fifth series sweep of the season. They had been on the wrong side of five series sweeps since they last broke out the brooms against the Braves during the first week of June.
A day after Rafael Devers acted as a one-man offensive force, it was Adames’ turn to take the mantle.
Devers went 4-for-4 with a walk, two homers and a double while driving in five runs and scoring four times in Wednesday’s 12-3 rout, then reached base safely in his first two trips to the plate Thursday before going down swinging on a splitter from Shota Imanaga to lead off the sixth inning, snapping his personal on-base streak.
Adames, meanwhile, followed Devers’ walk in the first with his first homer of the afternoon to get the Giants on the board, 2-1, after a trio of Cubs ground balls broke through the infield in the top half to put Logan Webb in an early deficit. He provided the response again in the sixth, launching his second long ball of the game after the Cubs took a 3-2 lead in the top half of the inning.
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It was the fourth time this season Adames has homered multiple times in one game, the most by a Giants player since Barry Bonds in 2004. As a team, the Giants have homered in 11 consecutive games dating back to Aug. 17, their longest streak since they went deep 12 games in a row from Sept. 5-17, 2021.
Adames has contributed five of the Giants’ 22 total homers over the 11-game stretch. Six more and he would become the first Giants player since Bonds to slug 30 in one season.
The ball was flying on a warm, sunny afternoon on the San Francisco waterfront.
Webb largely scattered seven hits and didn’t issue a walk, but he was tagged for a pair of solo home runs while not factoring into the decision despite completing seven innings for the 10th time this season. In 28 starts, the only other time the sinkerballer has surrendered more than one home run came July 11 against the Dodgers.