SF Giants capitalize on Red Sox’s costly errors to secure series win

SAN FRANCISCO It will go down as one of the odder offensive outbursts of the season The Giants scored nine runs in their - domination over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday afternoon at Oracle Park to secure a series win the bulk they ve scored since acquiring Rafael Devers exactly one week ago The Giants played both big ball and small ball Casey Schmitt Mike Yastrzemski and Willy Adames hit solo homers while Tyler Fitzgerald executed the squeeze play but five of San Francisco s runs could be traced directly to two errors by Boston s defense The Giants didn t have their finest defensive inning in the top of the first and gifted the Red Sox the championship s first run With runners on first and second catcher Patrick Bailey spiked a throw to Ray that he couldn t corral allowing Roman Anthony to advance from second to third The Giants looked like they d get out of the inning unscathed when Jarren Duran hit a two-out line drive to Heliot Ramos but Ramos muffed the catch and allowed Anthony to sum giving Boston a - lead Two innings later Ramos and the Giants took advantage of the Red Sox s own miscue Following Casey Schmitt s leadoff single Patrick Bailey skied a fly ball to shallow left field Duran the left fielder and third baseman Nate Eaton both converged on the ball Neither defender hauled it in and an error was given to Eaton Four batters later Ramos lined a single that scored Schmitt and Bailey giving the Giants a - lead If errors were responsible for the event s first three runs then home runs were responsible for the next six In the top of the fifth Boston s Rob Refsnyder and Romy Gonzalez hit a pair of home runs off Ray Gonzalez s being a two-run shot to give Boston a - lead In the bottom half of the frame Schmitt and Mike Yastrzemski tied the event at four apiece with a pair of solo homers For Schmitt his mph line drive that barely cleared the left-field fence was tied for the hardest-hit ball of his career For Yastrzemski his towering blast to the right-field arcade was his first home run since April The championship didn t remain tied for long as Ceddanne Rafaela s solo homer off Spencer Bivens gave the Red Sox a - lead in the top of the sixth But in the bottom of the seventh the Giants once again took advantage of another costly error from Boston and used a bit of small ball To tie the ballgame at five apiece manager Bob Melvin put on the squeeze play With Willy Adames on third and Schmitt on second with one out Tyler Fitzgerald laid down a bunt right in front of home plate Adames dashed home and Schmitt advanced to third Boston manager Alex Cora subsequently went to left-handed pitcher Justin Wilson to face the left-handed hitting Yastrzemski who entered play with a OPS against lefties For about two seconds Cora s call to the bullpen appeared that it would pay off Yastrzemski lunged at a slider from Wilson that was out of the zone and pulled a line drive right at Gonzalez Gonzalez didn t even have to move his feet all he had to do was catch the ball and the inning would be over The ball instead rolled into right field Gonzalez like Ramos several innings prior straight up missed the catch and the ball rolled away Schmitt scored easily and the Giants led by a run Following Rafael Devers single Ramos drove in two more runs with an opposite-field double that extended Ramos then followed Gonzalez s error with a two-run opposite-field double to extend San Francisco s lead to - Willy Adames provided insurance in the bottom of the eighth inning with a solo home run his ninth homer of the season