Devers, Koss Each Go Deep Twice as SF Buries NYM 9-5
Rafael Devers and Christian Koss both hit two home runs on Saturday, combining for six RBI as San Francisco rolled to a 9-5 win over New York. Five Giants went deep in total, turning what briefly looked like a Mets game into a long-ball showcase.
The game had a false start for San Francisco. Devers opened the scoring with a 351-foot shot to right in the first, but Ewing answered in the second with a two-run blast to right center — 407 feet — that flipped the win probability from 52% to 73% in New York's favor. That's the moment the Mets looked like they might control this one. They didn't. Koss erased the deficit immediately in the third, taking Zac Thornton deep to left center (368 feet) with McCray aboard to put SF back on top 3-2, and the Giants never trailed again.
The fifth inning is where Thornton's night fell apart completely. Koss went back-to-back with a solo shot to left (383 feet), and then Devers followed with his second homer of the night — 391 feet to left, Cox scoring ahead of him — to make it 6-2. Thornton finished with 7 hits and 6 earned runs allowed over 5.0 innings, and the story of the night was that San Francisco's lineup simply had no patience for him. Anthony Molina, meanwhile, was the opposite of a problem: 5.0 innings, 1 hit, 0 earned runs, 6 strikeouts. The Giants' starter looks like he gave his offense every opportunity to do exactly what it did.
New York made it cosmetically interesting late. A Baty walk in the seventh scored a run, and in the ninth, Baty doubled to left to score Ewing and Young — a play that survived an umpire review — cutting the deficit to 9-5. But by then, Basabe had already gone deep to left center in the eighth (375 feet, two RBI), and McCray had added a 420-foot solo shot to center to open the ninth. The Mets' final push was too little, too late. Devers (2-4, 2 HR, 3 RBI), Koss (2-4, 2 HR, 3 RBI), Basabe (1 HR, 2 RBI), and McCray (1 HR, 1 RBI) all left marks on the box score. Five home runs, nine runs, and a starter who barely broke a sweat — this one wasn't as close as the final score suggests.