Breaking down the wild, wacky numbers from SF Giants’ seven-homer barrage

CHICAGO — When you hit seven homers in a single game, you’re going to make some history along the way.

The Giants put on an offensive masterclass in their 18-3 victory against the Chicago Cubs on a muggy Friday afternoon at Wrigley, their largest margin of victory this season.

Matt Chapman hit two homers, one being the Giants’ sixth grand slam of the season, and matched the San Francisco-era record of eight RBIs. Willy Adames and Casey Schmitt also hit two homers apiece, while rookie Jonah Cox hit the first home run of his career.

“I feel like we’ve really been swinging the bats well this whole road trip, so it’s been fun,” Chapman said.

The Giants made a whole bunch of history in Friday’s blowout of the Cubs, so here’s a breakdown of what San Francisco accomplished with its blowout win over Chicago:

Slam Francisco

The Giants became the sixth team in MLB history to hit six grand slams in 20 days with Chapman’s grand slam off the Cubs’ Edward Cabrera in the top of the fourth. During this run, the Giants have gotten grand slams from Adames, Bader (two), Rafael Devers and Eric Haase.

With Adames hitting a grand slam at Coors Field on Sunday and Haase hitting one at American Family Field on Thursday, the Giants also became just the third squad (since 1901) to hit a grand slam in every leg of a three-city road trip, joining the 2023 Houston Astros and 1983 California Angels.

New third base coach Gary Pettis, coincidentally, is tied to both of those teams. Pettis was the third base coach on the 2023 Astros under Dusty Baker, as well as a player on the 1983 Angels. While Pettis was on that Angels team, he wasn’t on the active roster at the time of their grand slam history.

“It’s something that we’ve been doing a lot lately,” Chapman said. “Obviously, when you hit grand slams, it’s fun. It’s nice to get all those runs in, and it helps when you put runs up. Not something that I’m thinking about when we’re up there, but it’s been kind of fun to see everybody hit those homers with guys on base.”

Touch ’em all

With two homers on Friday, Chapman has now hit a home run in every current MLB stadium.

Chapman hasn’t homered in a major league game at Sutter Health Park, the shared home of the Athletics and the Giants’ Triple-A affiliate, but he did homer at the venue during his time in the minors.

“It depends on if you count Sacramento or not, but I’ve homered in every ballpark,” Chapman said. “I got Sacramento in Triple-A, so we’ll count it. But this was my last one, so that was cool.”

Good company

Chapman’s eight RBIs on Friday are tied for the most in a single game by a Giant since the team moved to San Francisco.

There have been five other Giants who have driven in this many runs in a single game during the team’s time on the West Coast: Wilmer Flores (May 16, 2025), Joc Pederson (May 24, 2022), Brandon Crawford (July 15, 2019), Orlando Cepeda (July 4, 1961) and Willie Mays (April 30, 1961).

The franchise record for most RBIs in a single game belongs to Phil Weintraub, who drove in 11 runs on April 30, 1944, as the New York Giants defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers, 26-8.

Count ‘em all the same

Cox may have just made a very obscure piece of history.

On Sunday, the rookie notched his first major league hit against the Rockies’ Hunter Goodman, a catcher. On Friday, Cox hit his first home run against the Cubs’ Carson Kelly, another catcher. According to Elias Sports, Cox is the first player in at least the expansion era (1961) to get his first career hit and his first home run off of position players, in separate at-bats.

“That would be cool,” Cox laughed about the possibility of being the only one to ever do that.

Stockton’s Mitch Walding homered off a position player for the Phillies in 2018 for his first MLB hit and home run with one swing of the bat.

Bombs away

This marks the fourth time since the Giants moved to San Francisco and the eighth time in franchise history that they’ve hit at least seven home runs in a single game, the most recent instance being on April 3, 2023.

There has only been one instance when the Giants have hit eight homers in a single game: April 30, 1961, the day that Mays hit four home runs against the Milwaukee Braves. Along with Mays’ quadfecta, the Giants got two homers from José Pagán and one piece from Orlando Cepeda and Felipe Alou.

Triple double

Adames, Chapman and Schmitt became the third trio of Giants to all hit two homers apiece in the same game, the other two instances were on July 2nd, 2002 (Damon Minor, Reggie Sanders and Tsuyoshi Shinjo) and July 8, 1956 (Willie Mays, Daryl Spencer, Wes Westrum).