Devers and Lee Torch Angels Early, SF Rolls 9-2
San Francisco put up nine runs before Los Angeles scored a single one, turning Saturday's game into a rout by the fourth inning. Rafael Devers went 3-for-4 with a homer and 4 RBI, and Jung Hoo Lee added a 3-run shot to make it a laugher before the Angels could blink.
The third inning is where this game was decided — and honestly, where it ended as a competitive contest. Devers singled to left, and a fielding error by left fielder Siri let Arraez score and pushed Ramos all the way to third. Schmitt followed with a single to right, scoring Ramos and pushing SF to 2-0. Then Lee unloaded a 365-foot homer to right, scoring Devers and Schmitt and ballooning the lead to 5-0. The win probability swung from 85% to 95% on that Lee blast — a number that tells you everything about how quickly the Angels' night collapsed.
SF wasn't done. In the fourth, Arraez singled to left to score Gilbert and make it 6-0, and then Devers — already the best story on the field — launched a 401-foot homer to left center, plating Susac and Arraez to push the score to 9-0. Nine runs, four innings, and Los Angeles had yet to put anything on the board. The story of the night was Devers and Lee operating in the same inning like a two-man wrecking crew: combined, they accounted for 7 RBI and two home runs before the game was 30 minutes old. That looks like the kind of offensive output that makes opposing pitching staffs want to forget the tape exists.
Robbie Ray did his part to keep the margin clean, going 6.0 innings and allowing 0 earned runs on 6 hits with 5 strikeouts — a performance that appears to be exactly what SF needed behind a big offensive cushion. The Angels managed cosmetic damage late: Siri scored on a Trout groundout in the seventh, and Grissom drew a walk in the ninth to score Siri again, but the final was 9-2 and it wasn't that close. Siri went 2-for-3 with 2 runs scored — the one Angel who showed up — but there was never a moment where Los Angeles looked capable of making this interesting. Luis Arraez quietly contributed 2-for-4 with an RBI and 2 runs scored for SF, a reminder that even the supporting cast was doing damage. This was a complete, wire-to-wire win for San Francisco.