SAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants haven’t played their best baseball early this season, but they finally managed to put it all together on Tuesday night.
Robbie Ray struck out seven over 6 2/3 scoreless innings, and the Giants’ streaky offense rapped out 11 hits against Phillies ace Cristopher Sánchez, culminating in a 6-0 win that snapped San Francisco’s four-game skid at Oracle Park.
The Giants entered Tuesday with an MLB-low .578 OPS, but they managed to solve Sánchez, who surrendered a season-high four runs over five-plus innings. The 11 hits were the second most Sánchez has allowed in a single start in his six-year career with the Phillies, trailing only the 12 he permitted in an outing against the D-backs on Aug. 11, 2024.
The top of San Francisco’s lineup set the tone for the productive night, with leadoff man Willy Adames, Matt Chapman and Luis Arraez combining to go 6-for-12 with three RBIs.
Rookie catcher Daniel Susac also singled in each of his first two plate appearances to become the first MLB player to start his career 5-for-5 since Ted Cox in 1977. Susac flied out in his third at-bat in the sixth, but he added a two-run triple in the eighth to collect his first career RBIs and stay a scorching 6-for-7 through his first three games for the Giants.
Adames led off the bottom of the first with a double, advanced to third on a single by Chapman and then scored on an RBI groundout by Arraez to give the Giants an early 1-0 lead. San Francisco added two more runs in the fifth behind RBI hits from Chapman and Arraez before stretching its lead to 4-0 on Jung Hoo Lee’s pinch-hit sacrifice fly in the sixth.
It was more than enough for Ray, who held the Phillies to only three hits and three walks in his third start of the year.