BOX SCORE
SAN FRANCISCO — As a team, there’s not much for the Giants to play for this weekend. Sure, they’d like to finish strong, and a .500 record is certainly better than finishing with a losing season, but they were eliminated from postseason contention on Tuesday and can’t even play spoiler.
But there’s a lot on the line individually during the final series of the year, both in terms of milestones and impressing the front office. In that respect, it was a good night for quite a few Giants.
Willy Adames got closer to breaking the 30-homer curse, Heliot Ramos hit a loud three-run shot, and Trevor McDonald continued his September surge as the Giants beat the Colorado Rockies 6-3. They’ll send Justin Verlander and Logan Webb to the mound the next two days in hopes of sweeping the Rockies and finishing the year at 81-81.
Here are some of the boxes that were checked in Game 160:
One He Won’t Forget
This was always going to be a memorable night for Adames, who was honored before the game after winning the Willie Mac Award. In that speech, Adames noted that it was a special honor because it was voted on by teammates, and he later caught ceremonial first pitches from his parents.
A few minutes later, Adames blasted a two-run shot to left, ending a run of 14 games without a homer. The shortstop is now at 29 and has roughly nine or 10 at-bats against a bad pitching staff to try and become the first Giant since 2004 to hit 30 homers.
WILLY ADAMES BLASTS HIS 29TH HOMER OF THE SEASON
JUST ONE AWAY FROM BREAKING THE STREAK 👀 pic.twitter.com/K0T4I5UoCn
— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) September 27, 2025
The 29th of his first year in San Francisco left the bat at 110.2 mph, making it his hardest-hit ball of the year. Adames flew out, got hit by a pitch, struck out and walked in his next four plate appearances.
Milestone Night
With a single in the bottom of the fifth, Matt Chapman reached 1,000 hits in the big leagues. He had 509 in Oakland, 245 in Toronto, and now 246 in San Francisco. Chapman also made one of his better plays of the year …
A five-time Gold Glove Award winner, Chapman might have a hard time defending his NL crown, in part because he missed 32 games with hand injuries. He is third among NL third basemen in Outs Above Average, but at four OAA, he is well behind Ke’Bryan Hayes, who has 21 and was the 2023 NL Gold Glove Award winner at third. The SABR Defensive Index, which accounts for roughly 25 percent of voting, also ranked Chapman well behind Hayes in the most recent public update.
Remember The Name
McDonald has been on the 40-man roster all year, but he didn’t get called up until last week. There might not be anyone in orange and black who has done more recently to improve their standing heading into next spring.
Five days after he opened eyes with a strong start at Dodger Stadium, McDonald struck out 10 and walked none over seven innings. The lone blemish came in the fifth, when he gave up a couple of singles and then hung a curveball that Ezequiel Tovar lined over the center field wall. McDonald got 18 swinging strikes, which is tied for the eighth-most by a Giants starter this season.
The Giants are likely to seek multiple rotation additions in free agency, but McDonald has certainly passed a few other young starters on the organization’s overall depth chart. At the very least, he should get a chance to follow the 2024 Landen Roupp path and win a bullpen job.
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