San Diego Padres closer Mason Miller (left) and catcher Luis Campusano (right) share congratulations after defeating the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Sat Sep 12, 2026 (AP

San Francisco Giants game wrap:

Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026

Oracle Park

San Francisco, California

San Diego Padres 7 (80-68)

San Francisco Giants 2 (62-87)

Win: Michael King (11-9)

Loss: Cesar Perdomo (0-1)

Save: Mason Miller (36)

Time: 2:33

Attendance: 40,146

By Stephen Ruderman

SAN FRANCISCO–The fall sunshine shone on Oracle Park for another beautiful day for baseball, as Giants made another late charge Saturday, but a late mistake by Shea Whitcomb proved costly, and the Padres once again held on for a 7-6 win.

After the Giants came back to finally get their first sweep of the season on Wednesday, they nearly pulled off another one Friday night, but fell just short. However, the momentum remained, and the Giants looked to capitalize on it, and play spoiler against the Padres, who came into Saturday with a half-game lead for the third wild card spot in the National League.

Cesar Perdomo made his third start of the season, and survived a jam in the top of the first inning. Michael King took the ball for San Diego, and the Giants got to work on him right away.

Drew Gilbert singled to lead off the bottom of the first, and up came the white-hot Rafael Devers. Devers hit his 37th home run of the season to give the Giants a 2-0 lead. Devers also got his 97th and 98th RBIs of the season. He is two away from being the first Giant to have 100 RBIs in a season since Buster Posey in 2012.

The Padres responded in the top of the second. With the bases loaded and two outs, Dustin Harris grounded a base-hit the other way to left to tie the game.

Shea Whitcomb hit a home run out to the Giants’ bullpen in left-center to put the Giants back ahead. Though, once again, the Padres had a response, and tied the game in the top of the third on a home run by Jackson Merrill.

Perdomo and King got off to similar starts, but they would go in completely different directions in the third. King went on to retire 14-straight after Whitcomb’s home run. As for Perdomo, the Padres tacked on a run in the fourth, and another one in the fifth to take a 5-3 lead.

Perdomo was done after four and two thirds. In addition to the five runs, Perdomo gave up ten hits.

Fernando Tatis Jr. hit an absolute missile halfway up into the bleachers in left off Joel Kuhnel to start the top of the sixth to make it 6-3.

After Reiver Sanmartin finished the top of the sixth, Jason Foley was the man for the top of the seventh. The Padres had runners at first and second with two outs for Tatis, who hit a ground ball to Whitcomb at third. Whitcomb thought he could tag Xander Bogaerts, who was the lead runner at second. Whitcomb then looked over to Bogaerts, and without his eye on the ball, it went under his glove into left field. A run scored, and it was now 7-3.

Plain and simply, it was a rookie mistake by Whitcomb, who was notably flustered. For a young player like Whitcomb, it can be a learning experience.

The Giants now trailed 7-3. Hey, the Giants came back from down 6-1 to win on Wednesday, and almost came back from down 7-1 last night. 7-3 should be no problem.

The Giants would finally end King’s streak of 14-straight batters set down, when Jonah Cox singled to lead off the bottom of the seventh. However, that was immediately followed up by a double play.

So much for that. At least there were still two innings remaining. Bradgley Rodriguez came in for the bottom of the eighth. Drew Cavanaugh led off the inning with his first big league home run to right.

Alright, it was now 7-4. Christian Koss lined a base-hit to left, and Drew GIlbert hit one out to right that bounced into the water to make it 7-6. Now, it was exciting.

However, Adrian Morejon came in and set down the next three to end the inning. Mason Miller then came in to do his thing in the bottom of the ninth. By his thing, I of course mean that Miller threw a one, two, three inning to notch down the save.

Despite these two losses to the Padres, this is a Giants’ team with a lot of fight in them. To play this way against a talented Padres’ team that could very well find themselves in the Playoffs, that is no small feat for the 2026 San Francisco Giants.

Michael King got the win, and Cesar Perdomo was dealt his first big league loss.

The Giants fall to 62-87.

Logan Webb (8-8 ERA 4.10) will take the ball on his football jersey day late Sunday night, as the Giants will look to avert the sweep. Nick Pivetta (2-2 ERA 3.43) will go for San Diego.

I said “late,” because Sunday’s game is the NBC Sunday Night Game of the Week. That means first pitch will be at 4:20 p.m PDT.