Homestand opens with good Roupp start, Schmitt RBI

SAN FRANCISCO – Before the Giants can finally welcome the Dodgers to Oracle Park this season on their way into the All-Star break, the National League East-leading Phillies are here first as a three-game undercard.

It’s a high-powered homestand, and it got off to a victorious, tension-filled start Monday night with the Giants prevailing 3-1 before a sellout crowd of 40,043.

“Two really good teams are coming in here and we just have to keep playing baseball,” Giants pitcher Landen Roupp said. “Guys are hitting, making plays and we’re throwing the ball well. We have to keep it going.”

Swept by Miami their last time at home, the Giants produced two runs in an eighth-inning rally dependent on ground balls and batters hit by pitches.

The winning rally, step-by-step:

— Willy Adames, having already extended his hitting streak to a season-best eight games, led off by getting hit by a pitch from reliever Orion Kerkering.

— Matt Chapman, in his third game back from a sprained wrist, battled to a full count before grounding a single to right and moving Adames to third. “It’s a big homestand for us, so it’s big to get this first one for us,” Chapman said after getting a celebratory water shower on NBC Sports Bay Area’s postgame show.

— Wilmer Flores, the Giants’ RBI leader, got hit by a 3-1 pitch to load the bases.

— Casey Schmitt, in his first game off the 10-day Injured List, hit a grounder to shortstop to bring home Adames for a 2-1 lead; Schmitt beat the relay throw to first to avoid a double play.

— Jung Hoo Lee rattled a grounder to first baseman Bryce Harper, whose wide throw home allowed Chapman to slide in head first for an insurance run and a 3-1 lead.

Camilo Doval came on for his 14th save in 18 opportunities, and that capped a top-notch night for the Giants’ bullpen in relief of Roupp’s start. “It hasn’t been his best here recently. But he’s finding a way to get it done,” Giants manager Bob Melvin said.

Doval, like Monday’s pitching predecessors, allowed the leadoff runner to reach (Max Kepler; walk). Schmitt made a leaping snare for the inning’s first out (on Doval’s 13th pitch to J.T. Realmuto). Bryson Stott then grounded to Flores at first for what would be a game-ending double play.

The Giants (50-42) have won three in a row. The Phillies (53-38) had won their previous two.

The Giants parlayed a bases-loaded rally in the second inning into a 1-0 lead, with Chapman scoring that lone run when Luis Matos’ RBI grounder was botched by shortstop Trea Turner, who potentially could have started an inning-ending double play had he cleanly fielded the ball. Chapman had led off with a single, followed by a Flores single and Schmitt walk.

Roupp opened with four scoreless innings, while twice striking out All-Star Kyle Schwarber.

Then the ball literally bounced the Phillies’ way as they pulled even in the fifth inning. Bryson Stott scored on a wild pitch from third, but only after Stott reached base when a bad-hop grounder clanked off first baseman Flores’ right foot and between his legs on its way down the right-field line for a leadoff double.

“The ball to Flo, it took a left turn. I don’t know what happened there. That was one of the worst hops we’ve seen so far,” Melvin said. “Other than that we played clean baseball, and you have to when you’re not scoring a lot of runs. … We pitched and played defense.”

Roupp escaped further damage in the fifth, thanks to Luis Matos making a diving catch on a Schwarber liner before Harper struck out looking on a high, full-count sinker.