PHILADELPHIA — Every member of the Giants’ starting lineup reached base multiple times as San Francisco blew out the Philadelphia Phillies, 11-4, on Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park.
Mike Yastrzemski, Jung Hoo Lee, Wilmer Flores and Patrick Bailey each drove in two runs while Yastrzemski, Lee, Matt Chapman and Tyler Fitzgerald also enjoyed multi-hit games.
Fitzgerald, in particular, enjoyed his second three-hit game of the series. He entered this road trip with a .219 batting average and .546 OPS, but following Wednesday’s performance, Fitzgerald’s numbers include a .314 batting average and an .842 OPS.
Robbie Ray allowed four earned runs over four innings and threw 93 pitches while getting a no-decision, but Lou Trivino, Camilo Doval and Spencer Bivens combined to throw five scoreless innings of relief.
The Giants (13-5) scored four runs in the top of the first inning on Lee’s RBI single, Flores’ bases-loaded walk and Bailey’s two-run single, forcing the Phillies’ Aaron Nola to throw 35 pitches in the process. As Nola walked off the field, the home fans showered him with boos.
Those four runs appeared as though they’d be enough for Ray, but San Francisco’s starter couldn’t find the strike zone. The Phillies (10-8) had one infield hit in the first inning — a leadoff single by Trea Turner — but scored twice as Ray walked four batters, two of them with the bases loaded. Ray needed 39 pitches to record three outs, throwing so much that reliever Spencer Bivens had begun to warm up.
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The Phillies earned their runs off Ray in the fourth. Bryce Harper hit his second two-run homer in as many days, and Philadelphia tied the game at 4-all.
The Giants quickly re-gained the lead in part to a questionable throw from Phillies center fielder Johan Rojas. With Lee on second after a double, Chapman singled to center. Lee stopped at third, but Rojas fired an errant throw up the third-base line that skipped past all of his teammates and bounced out of play, allowing Lee to score to give the Giants a 5-4 lead, one they’d never lose.
From there, San Francisco continued to pile on.
