Detroit's 10th-Inning Burst Silences San Francisco, 3-1
Detroit scored twice in the 10th inning to pull away from San Francisco, winning 3-1 on the road. The decisive blow came when Hao-Yu Lee singled to right to score Greene, swinging San Francisco's win probability from 53% all the way down to 28% — a 24-point collapse in a single at-bat.
For nine innings, this game was a pitching showcase dressed up as a baseball game. Logan Webb was exceptional for San Francisco — 8.0 innings, 4 hits, 1 earned run, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts — and Troy Melton matched him pitch for pitch through six, allowing 4 hits and zero earned runs while striking out five. The Giants had every reason to feel good about their position heading into extras. They didn't hold it long.
The scoring told a back-and-forth story before Detroit finally broke it open. Detroit drew first blood in the 6th when McKinstry scored on a Torres groundball double play — an ugly way to give up a run, but it gave Detroit the lead. San Francisco answered in the 7th when Drew Gilbert reached on an infield single to third and Basabe scored to tie it at 1-1. Gilbert finished 2-for-4 with that RBI, and Rafael Devers also went 2-for-4 for the Giants, so San Francisco's offense wasn't completely absent — it just couldn't push ahead when it mattered. Then came the 10th. Lee singled to right, Greene scored, and that was the gut punch: home win probability cratered from 53% to 28% in one swing. Clark followed with a fielder's choice that scored Lee, and Detroit had a 3-1 lead that looked and felt insurmountable.
What sealed it was Detroit's bullpen doing what elite bullpens do. Kenley Jansen worked a perfect 8th inning — 1.0 IP, 0 hits, 0 earned runs, 3 strikeouts. Tyler Holton matched that exactly in the 9th: 1.0 IP, 0 hits, 0 earned runs, 3 strikeouts. Six combined strikeouts, zero baserunners allowed. The story of the night, it appears, was Detroit's ability to grind through a dominant Webb performance, stay patient into extra innings, and then execute when the game opened up. Spencer Torkelson went 2-for-4 and was on base when the 10th-inning rally unfolded, and Lee — who went 1-for-1 with an RBI and a run scored — looks like the kind of player who shows up when the moment is biggest. Detroit takes this one, 3-1.