{"id":2720,"date":"2026-06-21T20:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:35:35","slug":"sf-giants-2-1-loss-in-miami-seals-sixth-sweep-devers-objects-to-pinch-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=2720","title":{"rendered":"SF Giants&#8217; 2-1 loss in Miami seals sixth sweep; Devers objects to pinch-runner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s 2-1 loss in Miami locked up the Giants\u2019 sixth sweep this season, already their most before an All-Star break since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=2718\">Larger World Cup led to predictions of lopsided affairs. The results tell a different story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They didn\u2019t leave without first supplying ninth-inning drama at loanDepot Park.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Devers led off the ninth with a walk, then waved a finger toward the dugout in objection to being lifted for a pinch-runner, to no avail. Speedy Jonah Cox replaced Devers, Jung Hoo Lee followed with a flyout, then Willy Adames grounded into a game-ending double play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was signaling over to us that he is good to run,\u201d Giants manager Tony Vitello said, via NBC Sports Bay Area\u2019s postgame broadcast. \u201cWe DH\u2019d him (Friday), and from base-running, he had a little soreness in his leg. He\u2019s good to go. A part of (the finger-waving objection) is that. A part of it, too, is competitiveness; he wants to stay in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Devers was 0-for-3 before drawing that ninth-inning walk after an 0-2 count. It was the Giants\u2019 only walk in a game they mustered just four hits, two by Casey Schmitt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have a problem with Rafi,\u201d Vitello added. \u201cWe talk every day. He\u2019s one of the most entertaining guys to be around. He probably wants to win as much as anybody in that clubhouse. He wants to stay in the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, we\u2019ve talked during this road trip about how he feels, and part of that is he\u2019s 100% good to go running-wise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Giants (31-46) had avoided sweeps by winning series finales at home against the Nationals and the Cubs before starting this road trip, which they did with two wins in Atlanta before getting rained out there Thursday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bring on \u2026 the A\u2019s? Yep, momentum is not on the Giants\u2019 side as their former Bay Area neighbor comes to town Tuesday for a three-game set.<\/p>\n<p>Neither another eight-inning gem by Logan Webb nor another multi-hit game from Schmitt could prevent Sunday\u2019s sorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Webb (4-5, 3.35 ERA) worked eight innings for the third straight start, the first Giants pitcher to do so since Madison Bumgarner in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Webb allowed five hits and one walk while striking out five in 103 pitches. While his previous two starts helped the Giants avoid sweeps to the Nationals and Cubs, their offense wimpered.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=2716\">Spain star Lamine Yamal scores 10 minutes into his first World Cup start and gives Spain lift off<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe was outstanding,\u201d Vitello said of Webb. \u201cHe took control of the game and the biggest thing is he got out of that jam in the eighth when (he) was at 100 pitches, to give us a chance to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Giants fell behind 1-0 when Webb\u2019s first pitch of the second inning (a 91-mph sinker) resulted in a 426-foot home run to center by Kyle Stowers; Webb\u2019s first pitch of the game was a 91-mph sinker Jakob Marsee looked at for a strike.<\/p>\n<p>That homer to Stowers matched as many runs as Webb allowed his previous three starts combined on a historic stretch. He was the first Giants pitcher since Juan Marichal in 1965 to allow one earned run or fewer plus one walk or fewer (none) over a three-start span.<\/p>\n<p>Webb hadn\u2019t allowed a home run in his past four starts for the Giants, and it was only his fifth all season. Stowers, with his eighth home run this season, was the Marlins\u2019 only baserunner through three innings.<\/p>\n<p>Stowers put the Marlins ahead again in the fourth, when he reached on a two-out walk and scored on Otto Lopez\u2019s double to the right-center gap for a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>A two-out rally in the third pulled the Giants even at 1-1, with Schmitt\u2019s RBI single to right scoring Luis Arraez, who doubled and was followed by a Bryce Eldridge walk. Schmitt, moved up to No. 3 in the lineup, extended his career-high RBI total to 42, giving him the team lead ahead of Matt Chapman (41).<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt went 7-for-11 with four RBI in Miami, and 11-for-19 on the road trip. His final at-bat was a 399-foot flyout to the center-field wall in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants\u2019 leadoff batter reached in three straight innings \u2013 fifth, sixth, seventh \u2014 but none scored or even reached second base. Chapman got hit by a pitch to open the sixth, only for Gilbert to hit into a double play.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants have Monday off before the Athletics arrive for a three-game set. Probable pitchers for the Giants are Robbie Ray (5-6, 4.07 ERA) on Tuesday at 6:45 p.m.; Tyler Mahle (1-7, 6.04) on Wednesday at 6:45 p.m.; and, Landen Roupp (5-7, 4.15) on Thursday at 12:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=2714\">San Jose: Make Music Day offers free performances for first day of summer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninth-inning, pinch-runner drama with Rafael Devers punctuated the Giants&#8217; 2-1 loss Sunday in Miami that sealed their sixth sweep of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SF Giants&#8217; 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