{"id":4779,"date":"2026-07-18T05:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2026-07-18T05:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:36:16","slug":"adames-eldridge-begin-second-half-with-bang-power-sf-giants-to-win-vs-mariners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=4779","title":{"rendered":"Adames, Eldridge begin second half with bang, power SF Giants to win vs. Mariners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>SEATTLE \u2014 The baseball wasn\u2019t exactly flying out to center field in the early innings on Friday night at T-Mobile Park.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=4777\">Contra Costa Health employee arrested on suspicion of having sex with boy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the bottom of the second, the Mariners\u2019 Luke Raley sent a 400-foot drive to straightaway center field that Drew Gilbert caught with his back to the wall. In the next half inning, Casey Schmitt hit a 386-foot fly ball that faded at the center-field warning track and nestled innocently into the glove of the Mariners\u2019 Victor Robles.<\/p>\n<p>Those flyouts made Willy Adames and Bryce Eldridge\u2019s respective displays of power all the more impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Adames\u2019 grand slam and Eldridge\u2019s two-run homer \u2014 both of which were hit to the \u201cJ-Rod Squad\u201d beyond the right-center field fence \u2014 the Giants began the second half with a 7-0 win against the Mariners, their third victory in a row. Should San Francisco win on Saturday, it will be the team\u2019s first time winning at least four games in a row this season.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be overshadowed by Adames and Eldridge was Landen Roupp, who allowed just two hits across seven shutout innings. Roupp\u2019s strong beginning to the second half follows an emphatic conclusion to the first half when he pitched eight innings of one-run ball against the Toronto Blue Jays. In July, he\u2019s allowed just one run over 15 innings, trimming his ERA from 4.55 to 3.98 over these two outings.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=4776\">Paul Pelosi charged in Napa County hit-and-run<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eldridge gave the Giants a 2-0 lead in the top of the fifth with his ninth home run of the year, a two-run shot off the Mariners\u2019 Bryce Miller on a splitter that caught too much strike zone. After the Giants scored a run in the sixth, Adames broke the game wide open with an opposite-field grand slam with just enough legs to clear the right-center field fence.<\/p>\n<p>Reliever Jason Foley, making his first appearance in the majors since Sept. 27, 2024, retired the side in the eighth and ended his day by recording a strikeout on an elevated fastball.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up next<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fresh off making his third straight trip to the All-Star Game, Logan Webb (5-7, 3.86 ERA) will make his first appearance of the second half. Webb\u2019s opposition on Saturday evening will be Bryan Woo (7-6, 4.23 ERA), whose 3.05 FIP ranks fourth among all American League starters.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=4774\">Two Forest Service employees taken hostage, safely released<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willy Adames&#8217; grand slam was the Giants&#8217; eighth of the season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4779","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>Adames, Eldridge begin second half with bang, power SF Giants to win vs. Mariners - Next City Digest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=4779\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adames, Eldridge begin second half with bang, power SF Giants to win vs. Mariners - 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