Game Wrap 4/21/2026: Giants 3 Dodgers 1

The Giants hung a 3-spot on Yoshinobu Yamamoto RHP in the first inning.  Landen Roupp and the bullpen made it stand up for a wire-to-wire win.  Key Lines:

Rafael Devers 1B- 1 for 4, RBI.  BA= .226.  Willy Adames SS and Luis Arraez 2B led off the Giants first inning with base hits and Matt Chapman 3B drew a walk to load to the bases.  This was the place where Devers has started to kill too many rallies this season but he laced a single to RF to drive in the critical first run and everybody moved up a base.  

Jung Hoo Lee RF- 2 for 3, RBI.  BA= .259.  After a Sac Fly by Casey Schmitt DH, Lee lined the Giants 4'th single of the inning and the game to RF to drive in the Giants third and last run of the game.  4 of the Giants 6 hits in the game came in the critical first inning.  Lee is batting .407 over his last 7 games and .315 over his last 15.

Landen Roupp RHP- 5 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 5 BB, 7 K's.  ERA= 2.28.  Roupp was cruising along until the 4'th inning when he inexplicably walked 4 batters and looked like he was on the ropes.  No problem.  He gets out of the inning on a GIDP then came back out to retire the side in order in the 5'th.  Gutsy call by Manager Tony Vitello to bring him back out and a gutsy performance by Roupp.  Roupp!  Roupp!  Roupp!  BTW, 2 of those 4 walks came on challenges:  One by Dodgers Catcher, Dalton Rushing,  that was overturned and one by Patrick Bailey C that was upheld.  

Ryan Borucki LHP- 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K.  ERA= 5.87.  So let me get this straight:  Tony Vitello brought Ryan Borucki into a game to face the Dodgers with a 3-1 lead?  You gotta be......!  And he lived to tell about it?  Talk about a gutsy call.  I am quite sure if that move went the way most fans expected, there would be very loud calls for the manager to be fired.  The move did make some sense.  3 of the first 4 batters scheduled to hit batted left.  The lone RH batter, Teoscar Hernandez LF , doubled.  What if he hit a home run?  

Ryan Walker RHP- 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K's, Save(2).  ERA= 3.60.  Another gutsy call but Walker retired the side on order and struck out two batters in the process.  

With the Win, the Giants record improved to 10-13. They stayed in 4'th place in the NL West 6 games behind the Dodgers and 4 games behind in the Wild Card race.

Tonight's game might be a mismatch with Shohei Ohtani RHP facing Tyler Mahle RHP.