SAN FRANCISCO -- One day after riding Harrison Bader’s grand slam to a feel-good win at Oracle Park, the Giants decided to stick to the same script against the White Sox.
Another grand slam from Rafael Devers fueled an 8-5 win for the Giants on Sunday afternoon, clinching the club’s first series victory at home since April 24-26 against the Marlins.
Casey Schmitt gave the Giants a 4-1 lead with his team-leading 11th home run of the year in the third, but Chicago tied the game behind a two-run rally in the top of the fifth that featured a trio of walks and a couple of defensive miscues from San Francisco.
Still, it didn’t take long for the Giants to land the decisive counterpunch.
Willy Adames led off the bottom of the fifth with a double, Luis Arraez reached on his second hit-by-pitch of the afternoon and Schmitt walked to load the bases for Devers, who promptly unloaded on a first-pitch fastball from White Sox right-hander Grant Taylor to put San Francisco back in front, 8-4.
Devers’ seventh career grand slam -- and his first for the Giants -- traveled a Statcast-projected 391 feet out to the opposite field, firing up the 40,220 fans that packed the house ahead of Memorial Day.
It marked the sixth time in Giants history that they’ve hit grand slams in back-to-back games and the first since Schmitt singlehandedly accomplished the feat against the Dodgers on June 13-14, 2025. (It’s worth noting that his second one came off a position player -- Kiké Hernández -- who came in to pitch the top of the ninth inning of an 11-5 blowout win at Dodger Stadium.)
The Giants’ three grand slams in May are also tied for the second-most they’ve ever hit in a single calendar month, trailing only April 1970 (four).