LOS ANGELES -- The Giants got some surprising thump from the bottom of the order against 2025 World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto on Tuesday night.
Backup catcher and No. 9 hitter Eric Haase launched his first two home runs of the season -- the second of which was a go-ahead shot off Yamamoto in the top of the fifth -- to power a 6-2 win over the rival Dodgers and extend San Francisco’s winning streak to three games.
Haase tied the game, 1-1, with a solo blast off Yamamoto in the top of the third, though the Dodgers briefly regained the lead after Shohei Ohtani took right-hander Adrian Houser deep to collect his first homer since April 26.
Still, the Giants erased the deficit behind back-to-back homers from center fielder Harrison Bader and Haase in the top of the fifth. Bader drove a splitter from Yamamoto out to the left-field corner to tie the game before Haase crushed a first-pitch fastball over the left-center-field fence to give San Francisco a 3-2 lead.
It was the seventh career multihomer game for Haase and his first since July 21, 2024, against the Twins. The 33-year-old veteran became the first player to homer twice off Yamamoto in the same game in the Majors, as well as the first Giants catcher to deliver a multihomer game at Dodger Stadium.
Haase came close to adding a third homer during San Francisco’s three-run rally in the seventh. After Drew Gilbert came in to pinch-hit for Bader and knocked in another run with a perfectly executed squeeze play, Haase stepped up to the plate and hammered a 399-foot drive to straightaway center field that ended up being caught at the wall by Andy Pages.
But the Giants still managed to expand their lead behind a two-out, two-run double from Jung Hoo Lee.