Giants built their advantage with defense, then piled on with Lee’s first career homer and Conforto’s second of the season.
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 30: Jordan Hicks #12 of the San Francisco Giants celebrates after the final out of the fifth inning during a game against the San Diego Padres at PETCO Park on March 30, 2024 in San Diego, California. SAN DIEGO — The Giants piled on late Saturday, with Jung Hoo Lee’s first career home run and a grand slam from Michael Conforto, to pad their lead enough to survive a chaotic ninth inning and prevail, 9-6 over the Padres.
It was all about defense, and the Giants’ glovework — and the contrast to their opponents’ lack thereof — was on display for much of the afternoon. Third baseman Matt Chapman backhanded a grounder from Fernando Tatis Jr., twirled and threw to first in time to end the third inning, and it was Ahmed again who made Tatis the victim to end the fifth, charging a softly hit grounder, barehanding the ball and making the throw to first just in time.
There was nothing cheap about the double that drove home Conforto, though, a 109 mph rocket down the left field line from Murphy. That was only the start of the celebration, though, as the Giants would load the bases only for Conforto to promptly unload them with one swing of the bat, his second home run in three games, raising his early season OPS to 1.539, the fifth-best mark in early action in the National League.
Hicks needed 15 pitches to record the first two outs of the game, pumping a 97 mph sinker past Xander Bogaerts on the seventh pitch of his leadoff at-bat, but recovered and required only 80 to complete five innings before handing off to Taylor Rogers, who allowed one run before Doval and Erik Miller combined to allow five in the ninth.
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