CHICAGO -- Suddenly, the Giants appear to have found their power stroke.
The Giants crushed seven home runs -- including two apiece from Willy Adames, Matt Chapman and Casey Schmitt -- to cruise to a commanding 18-3 win over the Cubs in Friday afternoon’s series opener at Wrigley Field.
This is the third time in Giants history that they've had three players with multiple homers in the same game, joining Damon Minor, Reggie Sanders and Tsuyoshi Shinjo (July 2, 2002) and Willie Mays, Daryl Spencer and Wes Westrum (July 8, 1956).
San Francisco (26-38) has now reeled off three straight victories, matching its longest win streak of the season. The Giants pounded out 19 hits on Friday and have combined for 30 runs over their last two games, their most over a two-game span since a doubleheader on April 30, 1944.
Chapman accounted for most of the damage for the Giants, most notably delivering his fourth career grand slam to fuel a six-run rally against Cubs starter Edward Cabrera in the fourth inning. Chapman added a sacrifice fly in the fifth and a three-run blast in a seven-run sixth to finish with eight RBIs, tied for the third-most by a Giants player in a game since RBI became an official stat in 1920, behind only Phil Weintraub in '44 (11) and Irish Meusel in '25 (9).
Adames kicked off the slugfest with a two-run shot that traveled a Statcast-projected 427 feet out to left field in the top of the first inning. Adames’ 10th home run of the year came on a 99.5 mph four-seam fastball from Cabrera, making it the fastest pitch the 30-year-old shortstop has homered on over his nine-year career in the Majors.
Adames went deep again in the sixth, belting another two-run shot off Cubs left-hander Hoby Milner.
Schmitt and rookie Jonah Cox (Giants' No. 24 prospect) also joined the home run party, launching back-to-back solo shots off position-player pitcher Carson Kelly in the top of the ninth. Schmitt also homered off Cabrera in the fourth, giving him a team-high 15 homers on the season.