Giants' 2-1 loss to Marlins seals 6th sweep; Devers objects to pinch-runner

Cam Inman, The Mercury News on Jun 21, 2026

Published in Baseball

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Sunday’s 2-1 loss to the Miami Marlins locked up the San Francisco Giants’ sixth sweep this season, already their most before an All-Star break since 2017.

They didn’t leave without first supplying ninth-inning drama at loanDepot Park.

Rafael Devers led off the ninth with a walk, then waved a finger toward the dugout in objection to being lifted for a pinch-runner, to no avail. Speedy Jonah Cox replaced Devers, Jung Hoo Lee followed with a flyout, then Willy Adames grounded into a game-ending double play.

“He was signaling over to us that he is good to run,” Giants manager Tony Vitello said, via NBC Sports Bay Area’s postgame broadcast. “We DH’d him (Friday), and from base-running he had a little soreness in his leg. He’s good to go. A part of (the finger-waving objection) is that. A part of it too is competitiveness; he wants to stay in the game.”

Devers was 0 for 3 before drawing that ninth-inning walk after an 0-2 count. It was the Giants’ only walk in a game they mustered just four hits, two by Casey Schmitt.

“I don’t have a problem with Rafi,” Vitello added. “We talk every day. He’s one of the most entertaining guys to be around. He probably wants to win as much as anybody in that clubhouse. He wants to stay in the game.

“Also, we’ve talked during this road trip about how he feels, and part of that is he’s 100% good to go running-wise.”

The Giants (31-46) had avoided sweeps by winning series finales at home against the Washington Nationals and the Chicago Cubs before starting this road trip, which they did with two wins in Atlanta before getting rained out there Thursday.

Bring on … the A’s? Yep, momentum is not on the Giants’ side as their former Bay Area neighbor comes to town Tuesday for a three-game set.

Neither another eight-inning gem by Logan Webb nor another multi-hit game from Schmitt could prevent Sunday’s sorrow.

Webb (4-5, 3.35 ERA) worked eight innings for the third straight start, the first Giants pitcher to do so since Madison Bumgarner in 2015.

Webb allowed five hits and one walk while striking out five in 103 pitches. While his previous two starts helped the Giants avoid sweeps to the Nationals and Cubs, their offense wimpered.

“He was outstanding,” Vitello said of Webb. “He took control of the game and the biggest thing is he got out of that jam in the eighth when (he) was at 100 pitches, to give us a chance to win.”

The Giants fell behind 1-0 when Webb’s first pitch of the second inning (a 91-mph sinker) resulted in a 426-foot home run to center by Kyle Stowers; Webb’s first pitch of the game was a 91-mph sinker Jakob Marsee looked at for a strike.

That homer to Stowers matched as many runs as Webb allowed his previous three starts combined on a historic stretch. He was as the first Giants pitcher since Juan Marichal in 1965 to allow one earned run or fewer plus one walk or fewer (none) over a three-start span.

Webb hadn’t allowed a home run in his past four starts for the Giants, and it was only his fifth all season. Stowers, with his eighth home run this season, was the Marlins’ only baserunner through three innings.

Stowers put the Marlins ahead again in the fourth, when he reached on a two-out walk and scored on Otto Lopez’s double to the right-center gap for a 2-1 lead.

A two-out rally in the third pulled the Giants even at 1-1, with Schmitt’s RBI single to right scoring Luis Arraez, who doubled and was followed by a Bryce Eldridge walk. Schmitt, moved up to No. 3 in the lineup, extended his career-high RBI total to 42, giving him the team lead ahead of Matt Chapman (41).

Schmitt went 7 for 11 with four RBI in Miami, and 11 for 19 on the road trip. His final at-bat was a 399-foot flyout to the center-field wall in the eighth.

The Giants’ leadoff batter reached in three straight innings – fifth, sixth, seventh — but none scored or even reached second base. Chapman got hit by a pitch to open the sixth, only for Gilbert to hit into a double play.

The Giants have Monday off before the Athletics arrive for a three-game set. Probable pitchers for the Giants are Robbie Ray (5-6, 4.07 ERA) on Tuesday at 9:45 p.m. ET; Tyler Mahle (1-7, 6.04) on Wednesday at 9:45 p.m.; and, Landen Roupp (5-7, 4.15) on Thursday at 3:45 p.m.

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