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Giants Stretch Home Run Streak to 18 in 8-2 Win at Cardinals

The surge keeps San Francisco four games back in the NL wild-card race after an 18-hit outburst.

Overview

  • Rafael Devers and Willy Adames launched first-inning back-to-back homers, the club’s fourth such sequence this season and their second as a duo.
  • The run of consecutive games with a home run reached 18, leaving the Giants one shy of the franchise record set in 1947.
  • San Francisco recorded its fifth straight victory and 11th in 12 games to sustain its late push for a postseason berth.
  • Rookie Carson Seymour earned his first major league win with five innings of one-run, two-hit ball in his second career start.
  • Cardinals starter Michael McGreevy gave up six runs over four innings for his first loss in seven starts, and Tristan Beck finished with a three-inning save.