SF Giants' Devers continues heating up in big win vs. Dodgers

Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News on May 12, 2026

Published in Baseball

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LOS ANGELES — As Rafael Devers goes, so too does the Giants’ offense. And if it wasn’t evident by now, Devers is heating up in a hurry.

Devers had another big game as the Giants kicked off their three-city, 10-game road trip with a 9-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on Monday night, reaching base four times on a single, two walks (one intentional), a home run, three runs and two RBIs.

San Francisco’s offense, as a whole, had an encouraging night, totaling a season-high six walks and 12 hits. Along with Devers, first baseman Casey Schmitt reached base four times (walk, hit by pitch, two singles) while left fielder Heliot Ramos and shortstop Willy Adames each contributed two and three RBIs apiece, respectively.

With steals from Schmitt and Jesús Rodríguez, the Giants also stole multiple bases in a game for the first time this season.

Right-hander Trevor McDonald had to work around a lot of traffic in his second start of the season, allowing three runs on nine hits and two walks over 5 1/3 innings with four strikeouts.

Since last Monday’s roster shakeup, the Giants have scored at least five runs in four of their last seven games. In their first 34 games, by comparison, San Francisco’s offense had only 10 occasions of scoring at least five runs.

Devers gave the Giants an early 1-0 lead in the top of the second with one of his most impressive plate appearances of the season, an eight-pitch battle that ended with a solo home run. The slugger fell behind 1-2, worked the count to 3-2 and fouled off a pair of pitches before pulling an outside splitter into the right-field bleachers.

The Giants had an opportunity to tack on more runs in the third when they loaded the bases with one out, but they were left empty-handed as Devers flew out to shallow right field and Heliot Ramos grounded out.

Los Angeles, by contrast, didn’t waste their chance with the bases loaded in the bottom of the fourth en route to taking a 2-1 lead. The Dodgers strung together four straight singles to tie the game at one apiece, then took the lead when Andy Pages grounded into a bases-loaded 6-4-3 double play.

Ramos gave San Francisco a 3-2 lead in the top of the fifth with a two-run double, but Max Muncy immediately responded with a game-tying homer. Los Angeles’ Teoscar Hernández knocked McDonald out of the game with a single, but lefty Matt Gage kept the game tied by retiring pinch-hitter Miguel Rojas and four-time MVP Shohei Ohtani.

The Giants took a 6-3 lead in the top of the seventh when Devers drew a bases-loaded walk and Adames drove in two with a single, then put the game out of reach with three more runs in the ninth.