US EditionGiants Meet the Athletics After Flores' 3-Home Run Game
- The San Francisco Giants secured a 13-5 victory over the Athletics on Friday night in San Francisco, with Wilmer Flores powering the team by launching three homers, including a grand slam.
- This achievement came after Flores reached new personal bests in home runs and RBIs during the Giants' opening game against the Athletics this season, a contest from the former Bay Bridge Series.
- Giants ace Logan Webb started strongly, pitching eight innings with one run allowed and four strikeouts, while the Athletics' starter JP Sears allowed four runs in four innings.
- Flores hit his seventh career grand slam in the third inning off Sears and added a three-run homer and a solo shot later, driving in eight runs total.
- The Giants’ win improves their home record and demonstrates momentum as they prepare to face Athletics again on Saturday with starting pitchers Luis Severino and Landen Roupp expected to start.
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East Bay Times
Red Bluff Daily NewsAthletics’ phenom Jacob Wilson debuting at Giants’ ‘beautiful ballpark with Coke bottle’
SAN FRANCISCO – Shortstop Jacob Wilson played just 13 games at the Oakland Coliseum last season, then the Athletics moved out, denying the Bay Area a true chance to watch one of baseball’s most exciting prospects. At least now the Giants are hosting him – and the Athletics — this weekend for his Oracle Park debut. “I definitely like the outfield stuff — the Coke bottle and stuff it’s known for,” Wilson said before Friday’s opener. “I’ve heard it…
Jackson Progress-Argus
Giants' Wilmer Flores socks 3 HRs, ruins A's return to Bay Area
Wilmer Flores set career highs with three homers and eight RBIs as the San Francisco Giants spoiled the Athletics' first return to the Bay Area representing West Sacramento with a 9-1 shellacking on Friday.
Associated Press News
Flores hits 3 homers and drives in 8 runs to back Webb as Giants thump A's 9-1
Wilmer Flores homered three times — including a grand slam — and drove in eight runs to back a strong start by Logan Webb, leading the San Francisco Giants past the Athletics 13-5.
Marin Independent Journal
Chico Enterprise-RecordFlores hits three homers as SF Giants rout A’s in return to Bay
SAN FRANCISCO — Have a night, Wilmer Flores. Flores enjoyed the best game of his 13-year career, hitting three home runs — a grand slam, a three-run homer and a solo shot — en route to recording a career-high eight RBIs as the Giants beat the Athletics, 9-1, in their first game back in the Bay Area. Flores provided more than enough run support for Logan Webb, who allowed one run over a season-high eight innings with four strikeouts. In the botto…
What we learned as Flores' monster game fuels Giants' win vs. Athletics
BOX SCORE SAN FRANCISCO — Goodbye Bay Bridge Series, hello … Highway 80 Series? Friday marked the beginning of a new era for the Giants and their former intra-market rivals, the artists previously known as the Oakland Athletics. The Green and Gold paid their first visit to Oracle Park since their move to West Sacramento, and while the rivalry doesn’t have nearly the same significance it once did, even as recently as last year, the atmosphere sti…
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