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ESPN News Services
Jul 23, 2025, 03:51 PM ET
ATLANTA -- Justin Verlander ended the longest streak of starts successful a play without a triumph successful Giants past astatine 16, allowing 1 deed successful 5 scoreless innings of a 9-3 triumph against the Atlanta Braves connected Wednesday.
The 16 starts without a triumph by the 42-year-old Verlander (1-8), who overcame 5 walks, is the longest agelong by a Giants pitcher successful a azygous play successful franchise history. The three-time Cy Young victor finalized a $15 million, one-year woody with San Francisco successful January.
Verlander threw 40 pitches successful the archetypal inning, loading the bases without giving up a deed oregon allowing a run. It tied for his third-most pitching successful an opening inning successful his career, and the astir since 2014. He didn't let a deed until the 5th inning.
Rafael Devers, who served arsenic the Giants' designated hitter 1 time aft making his debut arsenic the starting archetypal baseman, drove successful 4 runs with 3 hits, including 2 location runs.
Devers went heavy disconnected Spencer Strider (4-8) successful the 5th for the game's archetypal run. Strider past deed Willy Adames with a transportation earlier Matt Chapman's two-run homer gave San Francisco a 3-0 lead. Devers added a three-run changeable disconnected Dylan Dodd, who was recalled earlier successful the day, successful the sixth.
Eli White's blooper landed just adjacent the right-field enactment to unfastened the 5th for Atlanta's archetypal deed disconnected Verlander. White stole 2nd basal and moved to 3rd connected a chaotic transportation earlier Verlander struck retired Drake Baldwin to extremity the inning.
The triumph was the Giants' 2nd successful a enactment aft ending a six-game descent connected Tuesday. San Francisco outscored the Braves 18-3 to triumph the last 2 games of the bid aft Atlanta won the opener 9-7.
The Associated Press and ESPN Research contributed to this report.
