MILWAUKEE -- Logan Webb surrendered the most hits in the Majors last year, so part of him couldn’t quite believe that he was in the middle of a no-hit bid at American Family Field on Wednesday night.
“There were a lot of voices going on in my head,” Webb said. “I was like, ‘You have a no-hitter. You have a no-hitter.’”
Webb came close to delivering a performance for the ages, flirting with a perfect game and carrying a no-hit bid into the seventh inning before yielding a one-out single to Brice Turang that sailed just past the reach of third baseman Matt Chapman. Rookie outfielder Victor Bericoto gave Webb all the run support he would need, blasting his first career home run to help the Giants hang on for a 1-0 win over the Brewers.
“You could say vintage Logan Webb, for sure,” manager Tony Vitello said. “I think even by his incredibly high standards, it was just a tremendous outing.”
It marked only the third time in franchise history that the Giants (24-38) have won a game 1-0 behind a player’s first career homer; the other two instances came courtesy of Darren Lewis on Aug. 7, 1991, and Bill Taylor on June 10, 1954 (also against Milwaukee -- the Braves specifically, at County Stadium), according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Webb was brilliant in only his second start since returning from a right knee injury last week, retiring the first 15 batters he faced before issuing a leadoff walk to Sal Frelick in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Chapman helped keep Webb’s bid for history alive by making an incredible backhanded stop on Turang’s grounder to the left side in the fourth, but he fell just short of robbing the Brewers’ second baseman again in the seventh. Turang managed to go the other way on a low-and-away sweeper, lining it to left field to give the Brewers their first and only hit off Webb.
“I’m going to blame Tony because he did call down right before I gave up the hit and said, ‘Have someone ready,’” Webb said. “I’m going to blame him today.”
“He didn’t miss very many spots, at least during my at-bats,” said Turang, who played with Webb on Team USA during the World Baseball Classic earlier this year. “I got one pitch over the heart of the plate and that was about it. When you’ve got command and movement like he does, it’s tough.”
Webb departed after completing seven scoreless innings on 95 pitches, improving to 5-0 with a 1.79 ERA in eight career starts against Milwaukee. The two-time All-Star struggled to a 5.06 ERA over his first eight starts of the year, but he’s looked more like himself since returning from the injured list, giving up one run on four hits over 11 1/3 innings against the Rockies and Brewers.
“I feel like I really haven’t done my job as a leader and -- I hate the word ace, to be honest -- but the ace of the staff,” Webb said. “I feel like I’ve not led it the right way, just in my performance. To be able to get healthy, feel better and throw the way I feel like I should throw every time was nice. It was fun.”
Bericoto accounted for the lone run of the game after launching an opposite-field solo shot off Brewers left-hander Robert Gasser in the top of the fifth. The 24-year-old Venezuelan drove a 2-0 sinker from Gasser over the right-field fence to collect his milestone blast, which landed in the Giants’ bullpen and bounced into the stands before being successfully retrieved by the club’s relievers.
“It felt really good,” Bericoto said in Spanish. “It was something that I dreamed of as a kid, but it felt even better when we got the win.”
Left-hander Erik Miller took over for Webb in the bottom of the eighth, though he gave up a leadoff single to Jackson Chourio, followed by a one-out walk to Luis Rengifo. Vitello subsequently brought in right-hander Keaton Winn to face pinch-hitter Gary Sánchez, who grounded into a double play to end the inning.
Winn returned to the mound in the ninth, though he was tested after yielding a leadoff double to Christian Yelich. Yelich advanced to third on a groundout by Andrew Vaughn, but he was left stranded after Winn struck out Turang and retired William Contreras to close out only the Giants’ second win in their last nine games.
“Webby shoved today,” said Winn, who earned his first save of 2026 and only the second of his career. “I was just trying to do what he did.”