Improving to 44-33, the Giants are further above .500 than at any point during the 2022 season, with Luis Matos providing the fireworks Saturday.
SAN FRANCISCO — In his first week and a half in the majors, Luis Matos had just about done it all. But the Giants’ 21-year-old rookie was still seeking his first career home run.Matos lined a letter-high fastball from Merrill Kelly over the left-field wall for a two-run shot in the sixth inning Saturday that gave the Giants the lead in a 7-6 win, their 12th in their past 13 games, pulling within 1½ games of the D-backs for first place in the NL West. At 44-33, the Giants are further above .
The only doubt about it was whether it would stay fair. Matos swung with such a fury that his follow through took him toward the left-handed batter’s box, where he watched the ball’s trajectory down the left-field line while still holding his bat in his left hand. He pounded his chest and blew a kiss to the sky upon touching home plate, before returning to a tunnel of high fives in the third base dugout.
San Francisco Giants’ Luis Matos connects for a two-run home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the sixth inning of their MLB game at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday, June 24, 2023. All seven of the Giants’ runs came off Kelly, the D-backs’ starter and an opposing pitcher who had their number for much of the past two seasons. Kelly, who took the fifth-best ERA in the National League into Saturday’s start , had held San Francisco to four or fewer runs in all but one of their first 15 matchups. But after an eight-run outburst in their final meeting last season, the Giants have scored 15 runs in their past two games against Kelly.
Matos’ homer completed a comeback from a 5-3 deficit, after Christian Walker’s bases-clearing double completed a four-run fourth inning for Arizona.
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