SAN FRANCISCO — Casey Schmitt did it again.
The day after giving the Giants the lead with a late blast to left field, Schmitt showed off his clutch gene to the Marlins’ bullpen fora second time in as many games.
Schmitt launched a three-run shot to left in the seventh inning that broke a tie and gave the Giants their first lead in an eventual 6-3 win to secure the three-game series.
The heroics ensured the longest start of Landen Roupp’s career didn’t go to waste.
Roupp took the mound to start the eighth inning for the first time in his career and was serenaded by a standing ovation as he walked back to the dugout with two outs.
The walk that ended his outing was only the fourth Marlins batter to reach base against him and snapped a streak of 18 retired in a row.
The only blip on Roupp’s pitching line came in a 29-pitch second inning, when he allowed the first two batters to reach. It looked like he was going to work out of the jam, but after getting Graham Pauley down 0-2 with two outs, the Marlins’ No. 8 hitter punished a curveball over the brick wall in right field that cashed in their only baserunners until the eighth inning.
It appeared the early 3-0 lead would hold up as the Giants stranded runners in scoring position twice in the first five innings. But Rafael Devers woke up with an RBI double to get them on the board in the sixth, and Schmitt did the rest the following inning.
The Giantsearned their second come-from-behind win in as many games to finish the homestand 4-2 and win their third series in a row. San Francisco had been 1-13 when its opponent scored first before prevailing the past two games.
Jung Hoo Lee moved into the leadoff spot for the first time since the opening series of the season and kept on raking with his fourth multi-hit effort of the six-game homestand.
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