Casey Schmitt’s big day in Milwaukee helps SF Giants snap four-game losing streak

Facing one of the top pitchers in the majors the Giants proved that sometimes patience can be the cure to a issue in their - mastery over the Brewers For five scoreless innings on Saturday evening San Francisco flailed against Freddy Peralta - the National League s leader in wins The -year-old was a bit erratic but still effective He issued four walks but also allowed only two hits keeping pace with Logan Webb in a classic pitcher s duel But with the Giants bats floundering against Peralta Brewers manager Pat Murphy gave the Giants a major break by yanking his ace after pitches With Grant Andersen on the mound and facing a - deficit the Giants took advantage of particular hittable pitches and a handful of errors to jump all over Milwaukee Casey Schmitt starting at second drove in four runs Willy Adames who received another standing ovation before his first at-bat in his old stomping grounds got on first to lead off after Andruw Monasterio committed an error Following Dominic Smith s single Schmitt tied the meeting with a double to left Then the red-hot Luis Matos got on base thanks to another error by corner infielder Anthony Seigler allowing Smith and Schmitt to amount and give the Giants a - lead Matos had two hits and now has six overall in three games since being called up from Sacramento Schmitt padded the lead with a three-run -foot homer to center in the seventh and Patrick Bailey got his second hit of the night to give the Giants a - lead With their aces on the mound runs were hard to come by for each group early on Caleb Durbin doubled in Milwaukee teammate Jake Bauers in the second inning to give the Brewers a - lead It was not until Peralta was pulled after five innings that the San Francisco offense ascertained its footing against the top gang in the National League One of San Francisco s top bats participated in the offensive explosion After being on the injured list for the past days with right-hand inflammation he was back starting at third base and drew two walks He s the leader having him back there on the field just makes us that much better Schmitt revealed on the NBC broadcast That put Webb in line to get the win after he threw six innings and allowed five hits and had six strikeouts He improved to - on the season If the Giants can knock off the Brewers on Sunday they will win a series for the first time since Aug against the Pirates Robbie Ray is expected to pitch for San Francisco Fitzgerald sent down To make room for Chapman the Giants sent Tyler Fitzgerald back down to Sacramento He was just of at the plate while splitting time between his natural second base position and right field