Susac Goes Deep Twice as SF Buries MIL 16-3
Daniel Susac hit two home runs, drove in four, and scored three times as San Francisco dismantled Milwaukee 16-3 on July 29. The story of the night was a relentless SF offense that scored in five different innings and never let the Brewers breathe.
It was over early and it got worse from there. Susac set the tone in the second inning, launching a 411-foot shot to center that scored two and pushed SF to a 3-0 lead — a swing that moved the home win probability from 71% to 87%. Milwaukee clawed back to within one by the fourth, getting runs in the third and fourth innings to make it 3-2, and for a moment it looked like this might be a game. It wasn't. Logan Webb did his job in the meantime, working 6.0 innings and allowing just 2 earned runs on 5 hits with 4 strikeouts, keeping SF in front long enough for the offense to detonate.
The sixth inning is where Milwaukee's night ended in everything but the official scorebook. SF sent a parade to the plate and scored eight runs without hitting anything particularly hard. Koss singled to score one, Arraez singled to score another, Ramos singled to right and scored two more, a catcher's error let in a fifth run, and then Jung Hoo Lee doubled to right to score two and push the lead to 10-2. Five hits, an error, and eight runs — Thomas Pannone had already been pulled after three innings, and Milwaukee's bullpen had no answers. SF added three more in the seventh on singles by Arraez and Lee, and then Susac put the exclamation point on his night in the eighth with a 379-foot homer to left center, his second of the game, to make it 14-3.
Heliot Ramos went 4-for-5 with 3 RBI. Luis Arraez went 4-for-5 with 2 RBI. Lee finished 2-for-6 with 3 RBI. Christian Koss went 2-for-5 with 3 runs scored. This was, by any measure, a complete offensive performance — the kind where it appears every spot in the lineup contributed and no single at-bat felt wasted. Brice Turang's 2-RBI night was the lone bright spot for Milwaukee, but 3 runs against 16 is a margin that renders individual performances irrelevant. SF's pitching staff — Webb followed by Caleb Kilian and Keaton Winn — combined to allow just 3 earned runs total. This was a thorough, professional dismantling.