SAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants have been ravaged by injuries lately, but they’ve been able to withstand the repeated blows thanks to the depth they built into their roster over the offseason.

That axiom once again held true as the Giants outslugged the Cubs, 8-5, on Friday at Oracle Park. On a night when they were without Mike Yastrzemski, Tommy La Stella and Brandon Belt, San Francisco received home runs from three players who have stepped in to fill those voids: Steven Duggar, Jason Vosler and LaMonte Wade Jr.

Duggar crushed a go-ahead shot off Jake Arrieta in the second inning, and Vosler and Wade went back-to-back off reliever Keegan Thompson in the fourth to propel San Francisco to its eighth win in its last 10 games. Alex Dickerson also homered to help the first-place Giants improve to a Major League-best 36-21 -- a remarkable feat considering they currently have 14 players on the injured list.

“I think it just goes to show the type of guys we have on this team, and the type of team that we have,” right-hander Logan Webb said before the game. “I feel like every time a guy goes down, a guy picks that guy up. ... I think all the guys that are rehabbing are excited to get back to the team, but we know our team is in pretty good hands because that’s the type of team that we have.”

Webb was originally slated to face the Cubs on Friday, but those plans were scrapped after the 24-year-old right-hander landed on the IL along with Yastrzemski on Thursday. The Giants reinstated Scott Kazmir from the restricted list to start in place of Webb, but Kazmir’s third outing of the year began on an inauspicious note.

Three pitches into the game, the Giants trailed, 2-0, after Kazmir surrendered a leadoff single to Willson Contreras and a homer to Kris Bryant. Still, San Francisco quickly erased the deficit with a six-run second that was highlighted by homers from Duggar and Dickerson.

“We’ve been stringing together pretty good at-bats up and down the lineup for quite some time now,” manager Gabe Kapler said. “In large part, I think that’s responsible for our recent success.”

Brandon Crawford put the Giants on the board by doubling and scoring on a single by Evan Longoria, and Duggar followed by hammering a two-run shot off the top of the right-field arcade to put San Francisco in front, 3-2.

Duggar, who made his second consecutive start in center field following the injury to Yastrzemski, is now batting .316 with a .924 OPS and four home runs over 31 games this year, which has easily been the most productive stretch he’s enjoyed over his four seasons with the Giants. 

The 27-year-old has shuttled between Triple-A Sacramento and the Majors since debuting in 2018 and appeared to slip on the outfield depth chart following the arrival of Wade and Mike Tauchman, but he’s finally putting it all together and showing that he can be a valuable contributor for the Giants.

“I think last year I saw Steven Duggar make drastic improvements to his swing that I thought would play well,” Dickerson said. “He never really got a shot to get out there and get a rhythm going, but it’s not surprising what he’s doing right now. He’s an unbelievable athlete.” 

The Giants continued to grind out at-bats against Arrieta in the second, as Donovan Solano subsequently singled and Tauchman walked to set the table for Dickerson, who launched a 3-2 slider to right field for a three-run blast that made it 6-2.

Joc Pederson brought the Cubs within two by drilling his second home run in as many days -- a two-run shot off Dominic Leone in the fourth -- but the Giants padded their lead with back-to-back shots from Vosler and Wade in the bottom half of the inning. 

Vosler, a former Cubs prospect, came off the bench to hit for Leone and delivered his first career pinch-hit home run after driving a 1-2 fastball from Thompson to straightaway center field. The Giants have an MLB-high seven pinch-hit homers, another indication of the strength of their bench this year.

“It was a monster at-bat for us,” Kapler said. “It’s not easy to come off the bench cold. You have to be daydreaming about that moment for several innings in advance. Vosler prepares in the cage with [director of hitting] Dustin Lind down there. He’s training for that moment and he came up big and did the job.”

Wade capped the Giants’ offensive output by depositing a curveball from Thompson over the right-field wall for his second home run of the year. Primarily an outfielder, Wade has been filling in for Belt and Darin Ruf at first base and has impressed with his smooth defense at a position he hasn’t played regularly since college.

“It’s really not surprising that he’s going in and swinging the bat as well as he is,” Dickerson said of Wade, who is batting .267 with an .871 OPS. “The one thing that I don’t think we saw coming was how good he’s been at first base. He’s had it as hard as you can get for that position. Normally, it’s a lot easier than that, and he’s fielded extremely well over there.” 

While their depth has been tested, the Giants have managed to weather the adversity without missing a beat, which has generated plenty of postgame buzz in the clubhouse so far. 

“It’s fun coming back to the locker room after the win. There’s a little party scene going on,” Vosler said. “I think that’s kind of how they built this team. If somebody goes down, there’s another guy up to step in. There are a lot of versatile guys on this team that are playing multiple positions. It’s great to see.”