Giants' stunning ninth-inning comeback vs. Rockies extends winning streak to six

Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News on Jun 10, 2025

Published in Baseball

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The Giants, truly, are never out of a ballgame.

Hours after Matt Chapman was placed on the 10-day injured list with right hand inflammation, the Giants scored four runs in the top of the ninth inning to erase a three-run deficit and stun the Colorado Rockies, 6-5. They not only extended their winning streak to six games but avoided a loss to a team that’s on pace for the most losses in baseball history in the process.

Trailing by three runs in the top of the ninth inning, San Francisco finally found life against the Rockies’ Zach Agnos. Casey Schmitt led off the top of the inning with a solo home run, trimming the deficit to 5-3, then Tyler Fitzgerald and Andrew Knizner followed Schmitt by drawing back-to-back walks.

Jung Hoo Lee’s fielder’s choice gave the Giants runners on first and second with one out, then Willy Adames drew a walk to load the bases for Heliot Ramos. Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer pulled the plug on Agnos’ outing and went to Victor Vodnik for the final two outs.

Ramos brought home Knizner with a sacrifice fly, cutting the deficit to 5-4 with two outs and runners at the corners for Wilmer Flores. Flores, as he is wont to do, delivered. The 33-year-old beat out an infield single on a swinging bunt to score the tying run. One batter later, they pushed across the go-ahead run.

Mike Yastrzemski, who entered the game as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning, lined a sharp single to right field, driving in Adames and giving the Giants a 6-5 lead.

Camilo Doval entered in the bottom of the ninth to close out the comeback win, but the Rockies had a response of their own. After inducing a double play, the Rockies put runners at the corners with two outs as Doval walked Sam Hilliard then allowed a single to Hunter Goodman. With little room for error, Doval got former Giant Thairo Estrada to fly out to end the ballgame.

Adames, who received his first off day of the season on Sunday, drove in two runs, one deriving from a 439-foot solo home run to center field, his sixth home run of the season and his first since May 13. Along with the homer, Adames delivered a sacrifice fly to drive in Lee, who hit leadoff for the first time all season and tripled in the first inning.

Schmitt, who will be tasked with replacing Chapman for the time being, went 2 for 4 with a single and a solo home run, his first homer of the season.