Matos Shines with First Four-Hit Game, Smith Drives in Four
Adames Stays Hot with Four Hits, Smith Adds McCovey Cove Splash
The Giants opened their homestand in dominant fashion Friday night, overwhelming the Baltimore Orioles 15–8 with an 18-hit outburst at Oracle Park. Luis Matos recorded his first career four-hit game, Dominic Smith drove in four runs, and Willy Adames stayed hot with four more hits as San Francisco notched its highest run total of the season.
Baltimore struck first when Ryan Mountcastle doubled home a run in the opening inning, but the Giants’ response was immediate. San Francisco sent nine batters to the plate in the bottom of the first, highlighted by Matos’ two-run single and Matt Chapman’s RBI knock. By inning’s end, it was 4–1 — a lead the Giants would never surrender.
The offense kept rolling in the second as Jung Ho Lee and Adames singled before Rafael Devers blooped in another run. Chapman added a sacrifice fly, stretching the margin to 6–1. By the third, Dean Kremer was laboring, and Drew Gilbert tagged him for an RBI double to make it 7–4. Kremer’s night ended after just three innings, charged with seven runs.
Smith provided the biggest swing in the fourth, unloading a two-run splash hit into McCovey Cove — the 107th in park history — raising the tally to 9–4. Matos joined the power show with a solo shot in the fifth, his eighth of the season, before Gilbert’s second double of the night drove in another run in the eighth.
Robbie Ray didn’t have his sharpest outing, chased after 4.2 innings with six runs allowed, but the bullpen steadied things. Spencer Bivens and Matt Gage combined for 2.2 scoreless innings before Keaton Winn finished the final two. Bivens earned the win — his third of the season. Baltimore’s late push included a Colby Mayo homer and a pair of ninth-inning runs, but the game was long out of reach.
Every Giants starter had a hit, with Adames, Devers, and Chapman all reaching base multiple times. Devers’ two-run double in the seventh pushed the lead to double digits, and Smith’s RBI single tied his season high with four driven in. Matos capped his career night with a single in the eighth, giving him four hits across four different innings.
The 15–8 win lifted San Francisco to 67–68, keeping faint postseason hopes alive while reinforcing the potential of an offense that, when clicking, can produce against anyone. The Giants will look to carry that momentum into Game 2 of the series Saturday afternoon.
Baltimore struck first when Ryan Mountcastle doubled home a run in the opening inning, but the Giants’ response was immediate. San Francisco sent nine batters to the plate in the bottom of the first, highlighted by Matos’ two-run single and Matt Chapman’s RBI knock. By inning’s end, it was 4–1 — a lead the Giants would never surrender.
The offense kept rolling in the second as Jung Ho Lee and Adames singled before Rafael Devers blooped in another run. Chapman added a sacrifice fly, stretching the margin to 6–1. By the third, Dean Kremer was laboring, and Drew Gilbert tagged him for an RBI double to make it 7–4. Kremer’s night ended after just three innings, charged with seven runs.
Smith provided the biggest swing in the fourth, unloading a two-run splash hit into McCovey Cove — the 107th in park history — raising the tally to 9–4. Matos joined the power show with a solo shot in the fifth, his eighth of the season, before Gilbert’s second double of the night drove in another run in the eighth.
Robbie Ray didn’t have his sharpest outing, chased after 4.2 innings with six runs allowed, but the bullpen steadied things. Spencer Bivens and Matt Gage combined for 2.2 scoreless innings before Keaton Winn finished the final two. Bivens earned the win — his third of the season. Baltimore’s late push included a Colby Mayo homer and a pair of ninth-inning runs, but the game was long out of reach.
Every Giants starter had a hit, with Adames, Devers, and Chapman all reaching base multiple times. Devers’ two-run double in the seventh pushed the lead to double digits, and Smith’s RBI single tied his season high with four driven in. Matos capped his career night with a single in the eighth, giving him four hits across four different innings.
The 15–8 win lifted San Francisco to 67–68, keeping faint postseason hopes alive while reinforcing the potential of an offense that, when clicking, can produce against anyone. The Giants will look to carry that momentum into Game 2 of the series Saturday afternoon.
