Logan Webb threw eight innings of one-run ball for a second straight start, Matt Chapman gave him all the support he would need with a two-run homer, and the San Francisco Giants salvaged one win in a three-game home series against the Chicago Cubs with a 5-1 triumph Sunday afternoon.
Six days after he was pulled before the ninth inning with a 3-1 lead and watched the Washington Nationals rally for a 4-3 victory, Webb was again denied a shot at his fourth career complete game, having thrown 106 pitches in his first eight innings.
This time, Caleb Kilian locked down the right-hander’s second win in his last three starts by setting down the Cubs 1-2-3 in the ninth, striking out a pair.
Webb (4-4) allowed seven hits without issuing a walk in his eight innings. He struck out seven.
Cubs opener Ryan Rolison and bulk-innings reliever Colin Rea (5-5) matched zeroes with Webb for four innings before Jung Hoo Lee led off the fifth with an infield single.
He was sacrificed to second, after which Drew Gilbert’s bloop double delivered the game’s first run. Chapman followed with his seventh homer, a 405-foot shot to center field for a 3-0 lead.
The Giants once again used a sacrifice bunt to contribute to a lead-extending run in the seventh when Chapman walked, was bunted to second by Luis Arraez and scored on a single by Bryce Eldridge.
Webb took a shutout into the eighth before allowing an unearned run on a two-out throwing error by first baseman Casey Schmitt after an infield hit by Alex Bregman. Dansby Swanson, who had singled with one out, scored on the play.
The Giants gave Kilian a four-run cushion by matching the Cubs’ run in the eighth. Daniel Susac’s two-out single drove home Schmitt, who had singled and stolen second.
After Rolison retired all four batters he faced, Rea worked the next 4 2/3 innings, allowing four runs and six hits. He walked three and struck out two.
Chapman scored twice for the Giants, who completed a 2-4 homestand, while Lee and Schmitt had a pair of hits apiece.
Bregman and Pete Crow-Armstrong had two hits apiece for the Cubs, who went 3-3 on a trip to Colorado and San Francisco.
–Field Level Media
