Giants' Gilbert, Schmitt, Ramos all homer in win vs. Marlins

Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News on Apr 25, 2026

Published in Baseball

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SAN FRANCISCO — Casey Schmitt slammed his right hand on the dirt near second base, cursing himself for his second baserunning mistake in less than 24 hours.

Schmitt began the second with a leadoff bloop double, but instead of kicking off a rally, Schmitt was thrown out at second when he overshot the bag. The Miami Marlins’ Otto Lopez threw backwards to second base, and Schmitt couldn’t scramble back in time. He had a similar gaffe on Friday, rounding second too hard on an infield single by Jung Hoo Lee and being thrown out at second.

By the end of the San Francisco Giants’ 6-2 win on Saturday afternoon, a day that began by celebrating the career of former Giant Brandon Belt, Schmitt found a way to make up for those mistakes. Home runs of the no-doubt, go-ahead variety tend to have that effect.

Schmitt, making his first start at third base this season, hit one of San Francisco’s (12-15) three home runs on Saturday afternoon, a go-ahead two-run shot in the bottom of the sixth. Drew Gilbert and Heliot Ramos both had solo homers that landed in the right-field arcade as well, giving the Giants their second three-homer game of the season.

Robbie Ray grinded through five innings of one-run ball, totaling three walks to four strikeouts and throwing 97 pitches. This marks Ray’s (2-3) first start this season that he has ended a game with a no-decision.

The Marlins succeeded in running up Ray’s pitch count, making him throw 31 pitches in the first and 27 pitches in the third. Through three frames, Ray had already thrown 74 pitches. While Ray had to labor through the first three innings, the left-hander only needed 12 pitches in the fourth and 11 pitches in the fifth to complete five frames.

San Francisco’s bullpen had another excellent collective effort as Matt Gage, Keaton Winn, Erik Miller and Ryan Walker combined to allow one unearned run over four innings.

The Marlins scored the game’s first run in the top of the third on a check swing RBI single from Xavier Edwards, which had just enough air to float over the glove of first baseman Rafael Devers and score Agustin Ramírez.

Following four scoreless innings from Eury Pérez to start the afternoon, center fielder Drew Gilbert tied the game at one apiece in the bottom of the fifth with his second home run of the season.

After tying the game in the fifth, San Francisco took a 4-1 lead in the sixth on Schmitt’s two-run home run and an RBI single from Patrick Bailey.

Ramos padded the lead in the bottom of the eighth with a solo home run, the 80th opposite-field home run by a right-handed hitter in Oracle Park history. After Bailey walked and stole second, Luis Arraez tacked on another insurance run with an RBI double to extend the lead to five runs.

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