San Francisco Giants Matt Chapman (right) forearm bashes with the Giants batboy (left) after hitting one of his two home runs against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Fri Jun 5, 2026 (AP News photo)

By Barbara Mason

The San Francisco Giants (26-38) offense continues to roll hitting seven home runs to start their series with the Chicago Cubs (33-31). Matt Chapman had a grand slam in the fourth inning his fourth career slam. What looks like a miss-print is actually reality. Willy Adames had a home run in the first inning for two runs and in the fourth inning Casey Schmitt had a second two run home run.

Chapman and Adames would each have a second home run in the sixth inning. Jonah Cox and Schmitt wanted in on the fun and each of them hit a home run in the ninth inning. This offense continues to produce looking like one of the hottest teams in baseball right now winning this game by the score of 18-3.

Game recap: As expected there was a rain delay as this game attempted to get underway. Play finally got going after the brief interruption. As it turned out that delay was just postponing the pain that San Francisco was soon to inflict on Chicago in this game. Despite drizzle in the early innings, the Giants got a hot start in the first inning scoring two runs. The first home run of the game came from Adames with Luis Arraez putting a 2-0 score up on the board.

San Francisco starter Robbie Ray had a solid game. He allowed two walks in the first inning, a single in the second and two more walks in the third. He was kept the Cubs off of base, and off the scoreboard.

The fourth inning show-cased a missile off the bat of Chapman with the bases loaded. The second home run of the game was Chapman’s fourth career grand slam. They say three times a charm and it sure proved true for San Francisco.

Schmitt hit the third home run of the game with Drew Gilbert on base for an 8-0 lead. San Francisco had busted this game wide open. That hit knocked Chicago starting pitcher Edward Cabrera out of the game. He was relieved by Phil Maton.

San Francisco continued to extend their lead scoring a run in the fifth inning now leading 9-0. Chapman sacrificed and Adames scored. Wrigley Field had become strangely quiet with Cub fans taking to their cell phones looking for something of far more interest than what they were seeing on the field.

The sixth inning was another huge inning for San Francisco. Both Jonah Cox and Schmitt singled and a Rafael Devers double drove Cox home. Arraez sacrificed and drove in Schmitt for another Giants run giving San Francisco an 11-0 lead.

In this crazy marathon the Giants were hardly finished with this inning. Adames hit a two run home run followed by another Chapman three run home run and this game was all but done for Chicago with San Francisco leading 16-0. The Giants already had 17 hits in this game and the hits just kept on coming for San Francisco. It had been a seven run inning for the Giants in the sixth.

Ray finished the game going five innings. Ray was relieved by Carson Seymour.

Seymour got out of the sixth inning after allowing two hits and one run. The Cubs were finally on the board 16-1. Carson Kelly had singled Seiya Suzuki home for their first run of the game.

This game went into the top of the eighth inning. Cubs fans had started to exit the stadium hoping for a better outcome in Saturday’s game. Considering what Giant’s fans had suffered this season the Giants can certainly commiserate with them. It’s just a beautiful thing to be on the other side for a change. What a joy to see Chapman and Adames in the dugout; both of them laughing it up. Between the two of them they had four home runs and 12 RBIs so they had a lot to smile about.

Chicago’s offense had a better outcome in the bottom of the eighth. Suzuki hit a solo home run followed by a Pedro Ramirez single. Miguel Amaya doubled Ramirez home for their third run of the game.

San Francisco went into the ninth inning leading 16-3. Cox apparently wanted in on the fun hitting the team’s sixth home run. Not to be outdone, Schmitt followed the Cox home run up with one of his own (his second of the game) and San Francisco had an 18-3 lead. This was an all-time home run record for the Giants at Wrigley Field. The Giants were simply amazing finishing with 19 hits, 18 RBIs and seven home runs in one historic game.

Game notes: After an impressive series with the Brewers this week winning the last two games, the Giants went into a three-game series with the Cubs Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field. The offensive production at the plate for the Giants has been outstanding and Chapman teed off on the Cubs with two home runs and eight RBIs.

Giant starter Robbie Ray pitched five innings and allowed two hits and five walks four strikeouts. For the Cubs starter Edward Cabrera got lit up pitching 3.2 innings, allowing eight hits and eight runs on Friday.

The Giants had seven home runs Willy Adames and Casey Schmitt hit two home runs a piece. The six grand slams by the Giants in the last 20 days make the Giants the sixth big league team to accomplish that record in as many days.

The game was scheduled at 11:20am PDT that time was pushed back an hour due to a one hour rain delay.

Saturday’s game two of the three game series is another day game. A very early shower is predicted but it should be dry by first pitch and for the rest of the game. After getting demolished in game one the Cubs will be focused for game two.

Landen Roupp will take the mound for game two with a 5-6 win/loss record and a 4.22 ERA. The Cubs Ben Brown 2-2 will start for Chicago with 1 save and a 1.92 ERA. First pitch 11:20am PDT Saturday.

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