Giants continue gaining ground on Mets as Adames, Bailey homer

Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News on Sep 10, 2025

Published in Baseball

By clicking submit, I authorize Arcamax and its affiliates to: (1) use, sell, and share my information for marketing purposes, including cross-context behavioral advertising, as described in our Privacy Policy , (2) add to information that I provide with other information like interests inferred from web page views, or data lawfully obtained from data brokers, such as past purchase or location data, or publicly available data, (3) contact me or enable others to contact me by email or other means with offers for different types of goods and services, and (4) retain my information while I am engaging with marketing messages that I receive and for a reasonable amount of time thereafter. I understand I can opt out at any time through an email that I receive, or by clicking here

SAN FRANCISCO — Another game closer.

Led by a three-run homer from Willy Adames and Patrick Bailey’s second solo homer in as many games, the Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 on Tuesday night at Oracle Park, their 13th win over their last 16 games.

San Francisco (74-71) now sits just two games back of the final NL wild card spot after the New York Mets (76-69) lost their fourth straight game. Since the Mets own the tiebreaker, the Giants are technically three games behind the Mets.

Robbie Ray earned his 11th win of the season as he allowed two runs over five innings with five strikeouts.

Heliot Ramos and Rafael Devers began the bottom of the first by drawing back-to-back walks, setting the table for a three-run homer by Adames that gave the Giants an early 3-0 lead. San Francisco tacked on another run in the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Casey Schmitt that scored Matt Chapman.

The Diamondbacks cut the Giants’ advantage to 4-2 in the top of the fifth by scoring a pair of runs off Ray on Jordan Lawler’s RBI double and Jorge Barrosa’s sacrifice fly. Bailey hit a solo homer in the bottom of the fifth, his second homer in as many days, but Arizona cut the lead back to two runs in the top of the sixth on an RBI single by Illdemaro Vargas.

_________