SF Giants begin 10-game road trip with win over White Sox

After being swept by the Miami Marlins at home the Giants kicked off their -game road trip with a - success over the Chicago White Sox on Friday night at Guaranteed Rate Field Right-hander Landen Roupp allowed one run none earned over innings with four strikeouts while catcher Patrick Bailey scored a run and drove in two more with a triple his first time driving in multiple runs in a match since May against the Chicago Cubs If you don t have your best stuff and you go out there and you give up one run unearned you did pretty well manager Bob Melvin reported reporters in Chicago Roupp continues to solidify himself as the third-best starter in San Francisco s rotation behind Logan Webb and Robbie Ray Since May Roupp owns a ERA over innings with five quality starts The right-hander s last two starts have been especially impressive given how he responded to the worst start of his career Roupp ended his outing against the Dodgers on June having totaled more earned runs six than outs recorded five as San Francisco was blown out by Los Angeles In his two starts since then Roupp has allowed no earned runs over innings with strikeouts lowering his ERA on the season to in the process Closer Camilo Doval enjoyed a bounce back of his own as he recorded his th save of the season Doval allowed six runs five earned in his last two outings of San Francisco s newest homestand ballooning his ERA from to Against Miami on Wednesday Doval allowed four runs three earned in the top of the th inning as the Giants lost in extra innings to the Marlins The right-hander s outing against Chicago then was a return to normalcy a - - ninth inning with a pair of swinging strikeouts On multiple occasions Friday Roupp had to work out of trouble with his back against the wall The White Sox loaded the bases in the bottom of the fourth inning with one out on two singles and a walk but Roupp induced an inning-ending double play to escape the frame unscathed Chicago once again put a man on each base with one out in the following inning when Roupp plunked Chase Meidroth walked Andrew Benintendi and allowed a single to Miguel Vargas With no margin for error Roupp struck out Kyle Teel swinging with a beautiful changeup then got Lenyn Sosa to hit an inning-ending pop out He s a competitor Melvin declared He reliably has the sinker He throws the sinker at the bottom of the knees for a strike a lot of times it s a ground ball That s what he relies on The White Sox scored the contest s first run in the bottom of the first inning when shortstop Willy Adames had a very odd defensive sequence With runners on first and second Adames couldn t catch a line drive off the bat of Vargas that was hit directly at him and was charged with an error Left fielder Heliot Ramos collected the ball and fired a throw at Adames but Adames wasn t looking and the ball rolled past him Third baseman Christian Koss fleetly grabbed the ball and threw home but Chicago s Meidroth dove home to amount and Chicago had a - lead San Francisco tied it in the top of the third inning when Wilmer Flores a day removed from his frustrations against Miami pulled a double down the left-field line that allowed Bailey to sum The Giants took a - lead in the sixth as Bailey drove in Adames and Koss on a two-run triple when White Sox right fielder Ryan Noda dove and missed Bailey s low line drive When we get a big hit like that it s huge Especially in a competition like that where one at-bat could dictate the discipline of the event Melvin announced Earlier in the season we were really good in a lot of those situations and we haven t been in recent weeks But to get that one right there obviously was the biggest hit of the championship