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The San Francisco Giants Brett Wisely scores and waves in the top of the third inning against the New York Mets on Sun May 26, 2024 at Citi Field in New York (AP News photo)

By Jessica Kwong

NEW YORK — The San Francisco Giants were deprived of a holiday weekend sweep as the New York Mets rallied in the ninth inning for a thrilling 4-3 walk-off win at Citi Field on Sunday afternoon.

New York responded to San Francisco’s dramatic comeback wins in game one and two of the series with the comeback victory of their own in the finale that dealt the Giants their second walk-off loss of the season.

In the ninth, Brandon Nimmo and J.D. Martinez had consecutive hits, and Harrison Bader had a game-tying two-run double. Omar Narváez made a pinch-hit walk-off single and Mets fans in the crowd of 41,016 at the ballpark went wild.

“I felt like we had a good chance to win the game, obviously,” said Giants manager Bob Melvin. “The first game of the series was tough, the last game of the series was tough. In between was good, but it had just felt like a game we were going to win.”

In the second inning, a throwing error by catcher Tomás Nido on the pickoff attempt led Matt Chapman to score and put the Giants up 1-0. Then the Giants challenged a tag play but the call on the field was upheld. Bader singled on a sharp line drive to right field and DJ Stewart scored to tie the game at 1-1

In the third inning, Brett Wisely hit a home run on a line drive to right center field to put the Giants up 2-1.

San Francisco expanded their lead to 3-1 in the sixth inning as Heliot Ramos hit a ground ball into a force out and Wilmer Flores scored.

In the final inning, Bader doubled on a line drive to left field. Against Giants right-handed pitcher Tyler Rogers, Nimmo and Starling Marte scored, tying the game at 3-3. Narváez singled on a line drive to center field and Jeff McNeil scored, and Mets players flooded the field and poured coolers in celebration.

“A great road trip, a lot of good team wins,” said Rogers. “Even when we’re out of it, we still expect to win the games. My effort today kind of put a stink on the road trip, but it was a great road trip for the boys.”

Giants starting pitcher Logan Webb in seven innings allowed three hits and struck out a season-high eight batters.

“Look we got a really good hitting team coming up that you know swung the bats really well against us and they’re probably playing as well as anybody in baseball. And then three days and then an off day which will be needed the way we’ve used our pitching quite a bit,’ said Melvin.

“And then you know we’ve got a Yankee team that’s coming in as well. So we’ve got two really good teams and we’ve been playing well so we should feel good about how we’re playing.” Melvin added.

The Giants return home on Memorial Day and welcome the Philadelphia Phillies for a three-game series. First pitch for game one on Monday is at 2:05 p.m. PT. Starting pitchers for Philadelphia Taijuan Walker (3-0 ERA 5.06) for San Francisco Blake Snell (0-3 ERA 11.40).

New York Mets baserunner Tyrone Taylor is called safe on a stolen base as the San Francisco Giants second baseman Brett Wisely gets the ball too late in the bottom of the seventh inning at Citi Park in New York on Sat May 26, 2024 (AP News photo)

By Jessica Kwong

NEW YORK. — The San Francisco Giants continued their streak of coming back from behind in another thrilling win over the New York Mets, 7-2, at Citi Field on Saturday afternoon.

San Francisco’s victory in extra inning came after their comeback win in the Friday night series opener in which they hit their third consecutive grand slam and reached .500.

Giants manager Bob Melvin admitted, “We seem to have a little here for the dramatic here recently.”

“Look, it’s just kind of what we’re doing now. We talk about it every day, is it’s the 27th out. Until then every bat means as much in the first as it does in the ninth,” said Melvin.

“We’ve come back, bigger numbers than one, so all it takes is one big hit to get a run but it is the talk in the dugout late in the games is, here we go again.”

In the first inning, Starling Marte hit a home run on a fly ball to left field to put the Mets up 1-0.

The Giants went hitless for five innings until the sixth when Patrick Bailey, who hit the grand slam on Friday night, singled on a line drive to left field and allowed Brett Wisely to score, tying the game at 1-1.

In the seventh inning, Brett Baty hit a home run on a fly ball to right field and put New York up 2-1.

San Francisco answered back in the ninth as LaMonte Wade Jr., who was experiencing hamstring discomfort, singled on a sharp line drive to right field and Ryan McKenna scored and tied it at 2-2, taking the game into the 10th inning.

“We’re just a resilient team, that we’re never out of the game,’ said Wade Jr. “Pitchers keep us in it and us hitters you know we’re trying to get that back and the last week it’s been pretty good.”

WIsely then singled on a sharp ground ball to right field and Curt Casali scored, giving the Giants a 3-2 lead. Bailey walked, putting the Giants up 4-2. Then Mike Yastrzemski tripled on a fly ball to left field and Luis Matos, Thairo Estrada and Bailey scored, giving the Giants a 7-2 lead.

“This team is so resilient no matter if we’re down five, down one, we’re going to battle every at-bat,” said Wisely. “It’s been proven the last four games. With the game on the line, you get pretty excited.”

New York failed to earn any more runs.

The Giants (27-26) play the final of the three-game series against the Mets (21-30) on Sunday with first pitch at 10:40 a.m. PT. Starting pitchers for Sunday’s contest for San Francisco RHP Logan Webb (4-4, ERA 3.03) and for the New York Mets former Giants LHP Sean Manaea (3-1, ERA 3.11) first pitch 10:40am PT.

San Francisco Giants Brett Wisely scored in the top of the sixth inning against the New York Mets at Citi Park in New York on Sat May 26, 2024 (AP News photo)

On the San Francisco Giants podcast with Stephen:

The San Francisco Giants got off to a tough start at the beginning of the season and I said at that time that they’d turn it around but I gave up a couple weeks ago. When Jung Hoo Lee got injured for the rest of the season I thought that could be the end of the season.

I couldn’t claim I told you so anymore and since all those Giants injuries it’s great to see all those guys come up and we saw the guys make a splash last June and they have a good young core of young players like Luis Matos, Heilot Ramos, Marco Luciano, and Casey Schmidt. The Giants have a good young core.

The Giants are the first team since the 1932 St Louis Cardinals to win three straight games on the road coming back from a four run deficit. The Marlins did it but at home against the Giants in 1999. It was 92 years ago back in 1932 when the Cardinals did it can you believe that?

Stephen Ruderman is an MLB podcast contributor at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

San Francisco Giants Patrick Bailey (right) is congratulated by third base coach Matt Williams (left) after hitting a grand slam in the top of the eighth inning against the New York Mets at Citi Park in New York on Fri May 24, 2024 (AP News photo)

By Jessica Kwong

NEW YORK. — The San Francisco Giants hit their third grand slam in a row to come from behind and defeat the New York Mets 8-7 on Friday night in the first of a three-game series at Citi Field.

It was the first time that the Giants have won three consecutive games after trailing by four or more runs each, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The game also lifted the Giants to .500 for the first time since being 2-2 on March 31, and put them on a trajectory they hope to continue upward.

“We came on this road trip, we were hoping to do something like that. Come home .500, a little bit better. You know we lose a really tough game to start in Pittsburgh which puts us back at three again which didn’t feel too terribly good,” said Giants manager Bob Melvin. “To win three in a row like that in the fashion we did, really good.”

In the first inning, Pete Alonso singled on a line drive to right fielder Mike Yastrzemski and Francisco Lindor scored, giving the Mets the first run of the game.

San Francisco answered back in the second inning as Jorge Soler hit a homer on a fly ball to center field to tie the game at 1-1.

In the third inning, Luis Matos grounded out and Marco Luciano scored, putting the Giants up 2-1.

But the Mets tied the game back up again in the fourth inning at 2-2 when Jeff McNeil singled on a line drive to center field and Mark Vientos scored. Then Tomás Nido went out on a sacrifice fly to left field and Starling Marte scored, putting the Mets up 3-2.

In the fifth inning, J.D. Martinez hit a home run on a fly ball to left center field, expanding the Mets’ lead to 4-2. Vientos followed up with a homer of his own on a fly ball to right center field to boost New York up 5-2.

The Mets had another homer in the seventh inning by Pete Alonso, who hit a fly ball to left field and the lead grew to 6-2.

But San Francisco put up a fight in the eighth inning. Thairo Estrada doubled on a sharp line drive to center field and Yastrzemski scored, cutting New York’s lead to 6-3. Then Patrick Bailey hit a grand slam to right center field, allowing LaMonte Wade Jr, Estrada and Matt Chapman to score and giving the Giants a 7-6 lead.

“I was just looking for something middle down that I could do some damage with and I put a good spin on it,” said Bailey of the grand slam.

San Francisco was not done there, as Yastrzemski in the ninth inning hit a home run on a fly ball to right field and expanded the lead to 8-6. Lindor singled on a sharp line drive to right field and D.J. Stewart scored, to cut San Francisco’s lead to 8-7.

The key moment happened with the tying run at third base. Vientos hit a slow chopper and Chapman threw the ball off balance to Wade Jr. at first base. Wade Jr. fell backward but had his foot on the bag. The play went under review but the call was upheld, giving the Giants the victory.

“I think it’s the most excited I’ve ever gotten after a play, just the situation, obviously, and how these last four games have been going, it’s just been crazy games,” said Chapman. “To have a walkoff play on defense like that with the bases loaded, game on the line, I think that’s probably the best one for sure. I kind of surprised myself a little bit there.”

Game two of the series at Citi Field is on Saturday with first pitch at 10:40 a.m. PT. Starting pitchers for the Giants RHP Jordan Hicks (4-1, 2.38) for the Mets RHP Luis Severino (2-2, ERA 3.48) for game 2 of the series.

San Francisco Giants pitcher Logan Webb has now extended his shutout streak to 19 innings against the New York Mets on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at Oracle Park in San Francisco (AP News photo)

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

New York (12-11). 000 000 002. 1. 9. 0

San Francisco (12-13). 000 003. 02x. 5. 8. 0

Time: 2:10

Attendance: 25,453

By Lewis Rubman

SAN FRANCISCO–Just before the start of the ninth inning of Monday night’s thriller between the Mets and the Giants, the lights went off in Oracle Park, and the fans were treated to a giant screen video extravaganza extolling the prowess of San Francisco’s closer, Camilo Doval.

It would have been a great advertisement for a time travel adventure film, taking us back to the days of the Roman Coliseum, where a decaying empire distracted the masses with bread and circuses. When the lighting returned and Doval made his real life entrance, his performance didn’t live up to the hype—what could?—although it was exciting.

But that was because Doval’s performance wasn’t very good. He got through the inning without allowing an earned run, but that was because the runner had reached base on a fielding error … by Camiilo Doval, who also unleashed a wild pitch and turned a 5-1 lead into a 5-2 win with the tying run at the plate.

In tonight’s 5-1 Giants triumph over the Met, Doval didn’t made his appearance until well into the top of the ninth .It was Tyler Rogers, who had pitched the eighth last night, who let the Mets narrow a 5-0 deficit to four runs with runners on the corners and only one down.

It was, unlike last night, a save situation for San Francisco’s closer. It took him all of five pitches to fan Joey Windel and get Omar Narváez to bounce out to Chapman, That earned Doval his third safe of the young season

Luis Severino, who started for the Mets, brought a 2-1, 2.14 record with him, which was a considerable improvement over his 4-8, 6.65 with the Yankees the previous year Indeed, the injury plagued Severino was at the tail end of a solid career with the Bronx Bombers, for whom he had been a two time all-star and compiled a record of 54-37, 3.79 over eight seasons.

This evening, he was in top form until the Giants got to him in the fifth inning. He ended up throwing six frames of five hit ball, allowing three runs, all earned, and striking out five. He didn’t issue any walks, and 91 pitches, 65 for strikes. He was the losing pitcher, and now has a record of 2-2, 2.67.

The Giants went with Logan Webb, their interim ace until Blake Snell finds his groove. He went into the game at 2-1, 2.93, and with this win went home at 3-1, 2.33. In his eight full innings of work, Webb shut New York out on six hits and a walk. He struck out four, and threw 106 pitches, 75 for strikes,

When Michael Conforto lofted a TexasLeague single to left to lead off the bottom of the fifth, he became San Francisco’s first base runner. Three Mets already had reached base safely, all on hits, but none had scored, partly because of some dazzling defense especialloy by Conforto and Thairo Estrada.

Matt Chapman, whose work at third would have stood out if it had hadn’t been eclipsed by Conforto and Estrada’s brilliance, shot a single to left that moved Conforto up to second.

After Patrick Bailey flew out to left, Estrada poked a single to left that scored Conforto and sent Chapman to third, allowing Etrada to advance to second on the throw. Mike Yastrzemski brought both of them home with his single to center, and just like that, San Francisco was up, 3-0.

Estrada continued to torment the visitors when he led off the home seventh with a triple off Drew Smith, who had come in to relieve Severino. He scored when Yaz, following him in the batting order, singled to right.

Two outs and a wild pitch later, LaMonte Wade, Jr. smacked a scorcher that bounced off Lindor’s glove at short and into left center field for an RBI double, giving the hosts a 5-0 lead. Jake Diekman replaced Smith and set the Giants down in order.

The score remained unchanged until the dramatic top of the ninth, when Tyler Rogers and Doval squelched New York’s efforts at a comeback.

Before the game, the Giants added right handed pitcher Mitch White to their roster. They had bought his contract from the Blue Jays n Saturday. To make room for him, Landen Roupe was optioned the AAA Sacramento River Cats/

The Giants will for a sweep of the series tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon, sending Blake Snell (0-3, 11.57) against the bay area favorite Sean Manaea, now 1-1, 4.12 for New York.

San Francisco Giants hitter Nick Amhed hits a two run single in front of New York Mets catcher Omar Narvaez in the bottom of the second inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Mon Apr 22, 2024 (AP News photo)

Monday, April 22, 2024

New York (12-9). 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1x 2 4 0

San Francisco (11-13) 0 2 2 0 01 0 0 x 5. 8. 1

Time: 2:25

Attendance: 24,138

By Lewis Rubman

SAN FRANCISCO–Tonight’s Giant 5-2 win over the visiting New York Mets was a contest between two teams struggling to re-establish their fairly recent dominance. The Amazin’s went 101-62 as recently as 2022, one year after the orange and black stunned the baseball world with a 107-55 mark.

Neither team has come close to reaching those marks since then. This year’s Mets, shorn of highly paid starters Max Scherzer, sent to Texas last year in a trading deadline deal, and Justin Verlander, dealt to Houston, also at the 2023 deadline, have improved on the dismal 75-87 dismal mark they posted when last year’s tumult and shouting had died down .

It was the first of a three game series between the Metropolitans and the Giants , whose fall from grace since ’22 is painfully well known to the readers of these dispatches. You might call it a Cain and Abel series between the two successors to the New York Giants. Ken Rosenthal has written an interesting column in today’s Athletic, in which he discusses both squads’ chances of being contenders this year.

The team from Queens sent the well travelled left handed veteran José Quitana to the mound. He brought with him a respectable 1-1, 3.05 mark for the year and a five pitch arsenal consisting of, in descending order of deployment, a sinker, four seam fastball, curve, change up, and slurve.

Opposing New York’s 35 year old southpaw was 26 year old right hander Keaton Winn, who was impressive in his hard luck loss to the Padres on April 6 and got the win in his next, and most recent start, on April 17 going six frames and yielding only four hits and a walk, for one run, earned, on a home run, against the Marlins in Miami. He throws, again in descending order of frequency, a split finger fastball, a four seamer, and a slider.

The Giants took an early lead in the bottom of the second. Jorge Soler led off with an infield single to the left side. An out later, Michael Conforto singled to left, moving Soler up to second. Thairo Estrada drew a walk to load the bases.

Tom Murphy took a called third striking,, drawing a chorus of boos. Nick Ahmed followed up with a long fly to left that the scoreboard announced as a double, but third base umpire Roberto Ortiz declared a loud strike. So Ahmed sent a hard shot that just got past Francisco Lindor and into center field for a two run single.

The home team doubled its lead in the next frame on a leadoff walk to Wilmer Flores followed by a single that Jung Hoo Lee lifted into right. After Soler went down swinging, Matt Chapman hit a two bagger that fell close to the left field corner to make the score 4-0, San Francisco.

Pete Alonso put the Mets on the board with a 382 foot blast into the left field bleachers to lead off the top of the fourth. It was his seventh dinger and 12th RBI of ’24 and came on an 0-1 split finger fastball,

Another lead off home run, Conforto’s splash hit on the first pitch of the home sixth, got that run back and sent Quinntana to the showers. It was the Giants’ left fielder’s fifth round tripper and 16th RBI of the year and came off a curve. San Francisco now led, 5-1.

Replaced by Jorge López, Quintana had lasted 5+ innings and allowed five runs, all earned, on seven hits and three walks, striking out four, and throwing 91 pitches, 53 for strikes. His ERA rose to 4.21,and he was charged with the loss, dropping his balance sheet to 1-2.

Winn didn’t last much longer. He issued a base on balls to Starling Marte to open the visit0rs’ seventh. Marte swiped second, which proved to be unnecessary because Winn walked Lindor on four pitches. That’s when Ryan Walker came to his rescue, replacing the SF starter after he’d worked 6+ innings and yielded four hits, including Marte’s homer, which accounted for the only run he allowed, The walk to Lindor was the only free pass he issued, Winn’s pitch count was 87, 60 of which were in the strike column. His record now stands at 2-3, 3.54.

Tyler, the submarining right handed Rogers relieved Walker and set the Mets down in order

Sean Reid-Foley took over mound duties for New York after the seventh inning stretch and held the Giants scoreless for an episode before giving way to southpaw Josh Walker, who turned in a 1,2,3 bottom of the eighth.

Camilo Doval was entrusted with the job of securing the win, his fourth save opportunity of the season. He had to face the top of the Mets’ batting order to do it. He reached a full count on Brandon Nimmo before walking him.

Marte broke his bat on a ground out to second that advanced Nimmo into scoring position. Lindor hit a bouncer that Doval fielded and then threw poorly to first for an error that put runners on the corners with Alonso at the plate.

Dovall then unleashed a wild pitch that let Nimmo cross the plate with the run that made it a 5-2 game. Alonso then grounded out, Chapman to Flores as Lindor moved on to third.. Doval walked on Brett Baty, and that made DJ Stewart, the Mets’. next batter, the potential tying run, Doval got him on a ground ball to second to get the ugly save and preserve the gratifying win.

The battle between the New York Giants’ two successors will continue Tuesday, at 6:45. The probable starters will be Luis Severino (2-1, 2.14) for the Mets and Logan Webb (2-1, 1.93). It promises to be a pitchers’ duel, so be prepared for a slug fest.