Field Level Media
18 May 2026, 04:49 GMT+10
(Photo credit: D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images)
Harrison Bader hit a grand slam and Luis Arraez homered for the second time in three games to help the San Francisco Giants notch a 10-1 victory over the Athletics on Sunday afternoon at West Sacramento, Calif.
Bader's second career slam came during an eight-run eighth-inning as the Giants blew open a close game.
Arraez had three hits and went 8-for-12 with five runs in the series, which San Francisco rallied to win after dropping the opener.
Casey Schmitt and Matt Chapman each had two hits in the finale. Schmitt went 6-for-10 in the final two games of the series and homered twice in Saturday's victory.
San Francisco's Adrian Houser (2-4) pitched six solid innings and three relievers finished up. Houser allowed one run and four hits. He walked five and struck out three.
Carlos Cortes had two hits and an RBI for the Athletics, who committed three errors and have lost five of their past seven games.
Arraez hit his first homer of the season on Friday before getting help from the wind in the third inning on Sunday. Cortes was stationed in traditional right field and backed up but couldn't find the ball as the wind took it near the foul pole and over the wall for a solo shot.
Cortes was on the other side of the wind in the fifth inning as his apparent inning-ending pop-up landed for a run-scoring double. Giants shortstop Willy Adames lost the ball in the sun and Darell Hernaiz scored from second to cut the deficit to 2-1.
The Athletics' Jeffrey Springs (3-4) gave up two runs (one earned) and five hits over six innings. He struck out three and walked one.
Nick Kurtz went 0-for-1 but walked three times to stretch his streak of reaching base to 40 straight games, the longest single-season streak by an A's player since Mark McGwire (48 in 1996).
Chapman's RBI double in the fourth gave the Giants a 2-0 lead. After the A's got their gift run an inning later, San Francisco broke the game open in the eighth.
Bader started the frame by reaching on an error by Athletics third baseman Zack Gelof. Arraez walked and Schmitt singled off Luis Medina to load the bases before Rafael Devers singled to center. One run scored and a second followed when Lawrence Butler fumbled the ball.
Daniel Susac's grounder and Jung Hoo Lee's infield single plated runs later in the inning before Bader came up with the bases loaded. He went the opposite way with a 2-1 fastball from Jose Suarez and landed it over the wall in right.
--Field Level Media
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