Stowers Homer Sinks Webb in Miami's 2-1 Win Over SF

Logan Webb threw eight innings of two-run ball and still lost. Kyle Stowers hit a home run, scored twice, and drove in a run — and that was enough for Miami to take down San Francisco 2-1 on Sunday.

Webb's line was the kind that usually earns a win: 8.0 innings, 5 hits, 2 earned runs, 1 walk, 5 strikeouts. That's a complete-game-quality effort by any measure, and the fact that it ended in a loss tells you everything about how thin San Francisco's offense ran on Sunday. The Giants managed just one run against a Miami bullpen that pieced together the final 4.0 innings after Ryan Gusto exited at 4.1 frames. John King worked 1.1 scoreless innings, and Calvin Faucher followed with 1.1 more without allowing a hit. The Giants simply couldn't crack the back end of that staff.

For Miami, the story of the afternoon was Stowers. His home run accounted for the decisive blow — 1-for-2 with a homer, 1 RBI, and 2 runs scored is a quietly dominant line in a low-scoring game. Otto Lopez added a hit and an RBI to round out the Marlins' modest but sufficient offensive output. Xavier Edwards went 1-for-3 as well. Miami didn't need to be explosive; they just needed to be better than one run, and they cleared that bar. Gusto's 4.1 innings — 3 hits, 1 earned run, 2 walks, 6 strikeouts — gave the Marlins enough of a foundation to hand things off to the bullpen with the lead intact.

For San Francisco, Casey Schmitt went 2-for-4 with an RBI and was the lone bright spot at the plate. Luis Arraez reached base and scored, and Drew Gilbert went 1-for-3, but the Giants couldn't string anything together when it mattered. This appears to be a recurring problem — the offense generating just enough contact to tease, but not enough production to support even a dominant pitching performance. The Marlins, meanwhile, designated Christopher Morel for assignment earlier on Sunday, a move that signals organizational turbulence — yet they still found a way to win. That's the kind of afternoon that looks like a confidence builder for a Miami club that needed one.