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Logan Webb baffled Los Dodgers with a precision-crafted performance Friday night, leading the Giants to a 6–2 victory at Dodger Stadium, and pulling San Francisco into a tie with Los Angeles atop the National League West.
Webb (6–5) was in complete command, tossing seven dominant innings, in which he allowed just two hits and one walk while striking out four. The right-hander neutralized the Dodgers’ potent lineup, retiring Shohei Ohtani twice and keeping the heart of the order silent all night.
“I just focused on executing every pitch,” Webb said postgame. “When you’re facing a lineup like that, you can’t afford to miss.”
The Giants gave Webb an early cushion. After a first-inning solo home run by Willy Adames, Casey Schmitt broke the game open in the third with a grand slam — the first of his career — off Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The 423-foot blast to left field stunned the sell-out home crowd and gave San Francisco a commanding 5–1 lead.
Yamamoto (6–5) labored through 4? innings, issuing a career-high five walks and surrendering six runs. It was his shortest outing in over a month and a rare stumble for the right-hander, who entered the game with a 3.29 ERA.
The Dodgers managed just two hits in the game, their only runs coming on a second-inning sacrifice fly from Will Smith and a solo homer by Teoscar Hernández in the seventh. But any hope of a comeback was extinguished when Giants catcher Andrew Knizner, in just his second start of the year, launched a solo homer in the eighth to pad the lead.
The Giants’ bullpen closed the door with two hitless innings, securing the opener of the three-game series and handing the Dodgers their third loss in five games.
With the win, San Francisco improved to 41–29, pulling even with Los Angeles in the standings but claiming the temporary edge by virtue of head-to-head record.
The series continues Saturday, with rookie Landen Roupp scheduled to start for the Giants. Veteran Clayton Kershaw, returning from the injured list, will make his second start of the season for Los Angeles.
For now, though, it was Webb’s night — a sharp, surgical dismantling of a team known for offensive fireworks, delivered in front of a silenced Chavez Ravine crowd.
Here’s how we blogged it:
The Dodgers are back home for ten games after beating the San Diego Nachos, 5-2, on Wednesday to take their 14th series of the season and record a Major League-leading 22nd comeback victory. Tonight the team returns to Chavez Ravine for a season-high 10-game homestand, with games against the San Francisco Giants, the Padres (June 16-19) and the Washington Nationals (June 20-22).
At 41-28 (.594), the Dodgers hold a 1.0-game lead in the National League West over the San Francisco Giants and a 2.0-game lead over the Padres. The club is 4.0 games behind the New York Mets (45-24) for the best record in the National League. The Dodgers have Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound with Logan Webb on the mound for Los Gigantes.
Attendance 53,002
FIRST INNING
Top
Jung Hoo Lee (no relation) grounds out to first.
Willie Adames is at 2-0. He homers to right field on the third pitch.
Helio (no relation) Ramos is out at first.
Dominic Smith is out at first.
Giants 1, Dodgers coming up.
Bottom
Shohei Ohtani is at 1-2. He gets strickened out.
Mookie Betts is done.
Freddie Freeman is out in left field.
Giants 1, Dodgers 0
SECOND INNING
Top
Wilmer Flores is at 1-0. 1-1. 1-2. Full count. He singles right up the middle.
Casey Schmidt flies out to right field.
Mike Yastrzemski has a totally full count. He is walking.
Tyler Fitzgerald flies out to right.
Andrew Knizer ends the inning.
Giants 1. Dodgers 0.
Bottom
Will Smith is at 2-2. He is walking.
Teoscar Hernandez…(a wild pitch from Webb sends Hernandez to second) is at 1-2. 2-2. Full count and he is walking.
Max Muncy is at 0-2. 1-2. 2-2. He is safe at first, and Teoscar is out at second. Smith is at third.
Pages doubles and sends Smith home to tie the score.
Mike Conforto flies out to end the inning.
Dodgers 1, Giants 1.
(I’m gone for a couple of innings, and Casey Schmitt hits a grand slam to put the Giants on top 5-1.)
FIFTH INNING
Top
Casey Schmitt (him again) is at 2-1, as Yamamoto reaches the 100-pitch mark. Chat show on the mound. Justin Wrobleski is in to pitch.
Yastrzemski is at 1-1.1-2. He is out at first.
Bottom
Andy Pages is way out at first.
Conforto out at first.
Tommy Edman joins the “out at first” club.
Giants 5, Dodgers 1.
SIXTH INNING
Top
Fitzgerald is out at first.
Knizer is out at first.
Lee (no relation) is at 1-2. And is also out at first.
Bottom
Ohtani is at 2-2. He strikes out, much to his apparent surprise.
Mookie has a full count. He flies out to short left field.
Freeman strikes out as Webb is now at cruising speed.
Giants 5, Dodgers 1.
SEVENTH INNING
Top
Adames flies out to center.
Heliot Ramos is at 0-1, 1-2, Safe at first.
Flores (again?) doubles, sending Ramos to third.
Schmitt is at 2-2. He strikes out.
Giants 5, Dodgers 1.
Bottom
Will Smith flies out to second base.
Muncy be out.
Teoscar homers on the first pitch he sees.
Pages flies out to right.
Giants 5, Dodgers 2
EIGHTH INNING
Top
Yastrzemski flies out.
Fitzgerald strikes out.
Knizer homers on the first pitch he sees.
Lee grounds out to first. .
Bottom
Conforto is out at first.
Edman too.
Ohtani grounds out to first.
NINTH INNING
Top
Adames strikes out.
Ramos is at 1-2. And he strikes out, too, as well.
Smith singles past Edman.
Flores flies out to right.
Bottom
Ryan Walker is pitching for Los Gigantes.
Mookie be walking.
Freeman flies out to center.
Teoscar grounds out to end the match.
FINAL: Giants 6, Dodgers 2.
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