Mike Yastrzemski hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning, putting the San Francisco Giants ahead for good in their 5-4 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night.
The Giants played their fourth consecutive one-run game, winning two and losing two during this stretch.
“We’re pushing for a wild-card spot right now … so we’re just trying to get these games, just trying to win these one-run games as much as we can,” said Grant McCray, who also homered for the Giants. “They’re little nail-biters, but as long as we keep pulling through, we’re good.”
San Francisco’s Matt Chapman went 3 for 4 and hit a solo home run.
Thairo Estrada almost homered too, but Milwaukee’s Blake Perkins reached over the center-field wall to catch Estrada’s drive in the fifth inning. Perkins has made four catches this season to prevent home runs.
“It’s cool,” Perkins said. “Again, I wish it would have meant more in the game in the end, but it’s still cool.”
The Giants were trailing 4-3 before Chapman led off the seventh with a single off Joel Payamps (3-6), who had not allowed a run in his last 11 games. Yastrzemski then hit a drive over the right-center field wall.
“They have a really good bullpen,” Giants manager Bob Melvin said. “They have a really good pitching staff, period. But the guys they bring in later in the game can be very difficult. You’re fortunate to get on a guy quickly like him, who’s really good, and kind of put pressure on him early in the inning.”
Milwaukee’s Willy Adames and Jackson Chourio hit towering two-run homers off Giants starter Logan Webb. Before Tuesday, Webb hadn’t allowed a home run in his last 43 1/3 innings.
Chourio’s 449-foot homer was the longest by any Brewer this season and struck just above the “O” in the “One Call…That’s All” slogan on an ad on the center-field scoreboard at American Family Field.
