Devers delivers Giants' latest grand slam to secure series victory over White Sox

Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News on May 24, 2026

Published in Baseball

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SAN FRANCISCO — Welcome to Slam Francisco.

An afternoon after Harrison Bader hit his second grand slam in a week, Rafael Devers powered the Giants to an 8-5 win over the Chicago White Sox on Sunday afternoon at Oracle Park with San Francisco’s third grand slam in the last eight days.

This marks the first time since 1924 that the Giants have hit three grand slams in eight days, as well as the first time since 1970 that San Francisco has hit three grand slams in a seven-game stretch.

Devers entered May with a .540 OPS, but he has slowly raised that figure to .700 over the last three-and-a-half weeks. Devers is hitting .301/.344/.590 with five home runs and 13 RBIs this month, looking much more like the foundational offensive centerpiece the Giants expected when they acquired him 11 months ago.

Devers’ opposite-field grand slam, the seventh of his career, shifted the energy at Oracle Park following a brutal top of the fifth.

The Giants entered the frame leading 4-2, but left-hander Robbie Ray walked two straight batters to open the inning before being pulled, ending his afternoon with a career-high seven walks. Manager Tony Vitello took his time walking to the mound, then lingered for a couple of moments before signaling for right-hander Keaton Winn.

Winn walked the first batter he faced, loading the bases with no outs, and Chicago tied the game at four on a groundout by Colson Montgomery and an RBI single by Edgar Quero. Second baseman Luis Arraez had a chance to turn a double play on Montgomery’s grounder but fumbled the ball and had to settle for one out.

The energy at Oracle Park turned back in the Giants’ favor in a hurry. Willy Adames led off the bottom of the fifth with a double, setting the table for the heart of the order. Arraez painfully reached base when he was plunked in the lower back, the second time Chicago’s Noah Schultz had hit Arraez in that spot. The home crowd mercilessly booed Schultz as Arraez jogged off the pain, then cheered even louder when the pitcher was pulled from the game.

Casey Schmitt, who homered in the third, loaded the bases by drawing a walk against newly installed reliever Grant Taylor to load the bases. Then, Devers unleashed the swing of the afternoon, hitting his seventh homer of the season and his first grand slam as a Giant.

Schmitt stayed hot by hitting another two-run homer after doing the same on Saturday. Schmitt, who started at first base on Sunday after playing left field on Saturday, has now homered while playing five different positions (first base, second base, third base, left field, designated hitter).

The utilityman has already hit a team-leading 11 home runs over 45 games, one away from matching the career-high 12 homers that he hit last season. Schmitt is on pace to hit 34 home runs this season and is making an early compelling case to make the All-Star team despite not having a defined position.

Ray endured another rough outing after surrendering a career-high 10 runs in his last start, issuing a career-high seven walks over four-plus innings en route to allowing four earned runs.

The Giants won their third series of the last five and will host the Arizona Diamondbacks in a three-gamer beginning Monday afternoon at Oracle Park after being swept last week in Phoenix.

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