Giants amass 20 hits in 12-9 win vs. Brewers to secure series split

Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News on Jun 4, 2026

Published in Baseball

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MILWAUKEE — Headlined by Eric Haase’s grand slam, San Francisco beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 12-9, on Thursday afternoon at American Family Field, securing a series split after dropping the first two games.

There was no shortage of notable stat lines on an afternoon when every starter had at least one hit and the Giants (25-38) amassed 20 hits, the second-most in a single game this season.

Casey Schmitt (2 for 5, 2 RBIs) set the tone for the afternoon with the first leadoff homer of his career, his 14th of the season. Rookie Bryce Eldridge (3 for 4, one walk, two runs) reached base four times for the second time in the last five days. Jung Hoo Lee had another four-hit game and scored three runs, raising his batting average to .322 and extending his hitting streak to 12 games. Matt Chapman totaled three hits and two RBIs.

For all of the fireworks on offense, the highlight of the afternoon belonged to center fielder Drew Gilbert, who scaled the right-center-field wall in the bottom of the seventh to rob Andrew Vaughn of a two-run homer. Gilbert had two hits to go along with the sensational defensive play.

Despite entering the bottom of the ninth with a six-run lead, things got shaky when rookie right-hander Wilkin Ramos failed to retire any of the four batters he faced. After Ramos walked in a run, cutting the Giants’ lead to five runs, manager Tony Vitello was forced to call upon right-hander Caleb Kilian for the sudden save situation.

The Brewers’ David Hamilton nearly delivered a game-tying three-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, but Hamilton’s deep drive to center field fell a couple of feet short.

Right-hander Adrian Houser, who made 129 appearances for the Brewers over seven seasons, allowed three runs (two earned) over 4 1/3 innings in his first appearance at American Family Field since he was traded in December 2023.

Coincidentally, Milwaukee’s starting pitcher on Thursday was Coleman Crow, whom the Brewers received from the New York Mets in exchange for Houser and outfielder Tyrone Taylor.

The Giants spotted Houser three quick runs in the top of the first inning, sending all nine batters to the plate before the frame was over. Schmitt started the afternoon with a bang by homering on the very first pitch by Coleman Crow, and San Francisco added two more runs on a pair of RBI singles from Eldridge and Chapman.

Milwaukee got a run back in the bottom of the first, but the Giants put up another three-spot in the top of the third as Lee doubled home Willy Adames, Chapman singled home Lee and Schmitt drove in Eldridge on a sacrifice fly. By inning’s end, San Francisco had a commanding 6-1 lead.

Houser was cruising along through the first four innings, but the top of the Brewers’ order put an early end to his afternoon in the fifth. Christian Yelich pulled a one-out double down the right-field line, and Jackson Chourio followed Yelich with an opposite-field two-run homer that trimmed the Giants’ lead to 6-3. After allowing a double to Brice Turang, manager Tony Vitello pulled Houser and went to his bullpen.

With the Brewers threatening to come back against the Giants’ shaky bullpen, San Francisco’s offense delivered a devastating blow by putting up six runs to blow the game open.

Lee, Eldridge and Chapman set the table with three consecutive singles — Eldridge knocked the Brewers’ Grant Anderson out of the game by hitting a line drive off Anderson — and Haase delivered the big blow with his third career grand slam.