Adames, Chapman, Schmitt each hit 2 homers as Giants blast Cubs at Wrigley

CHICAGO - Each hit, each run, each homer elicited a different sonic vibration from the home crowd than the last.

First, there were the familiar acoustics, a blend of shock and disappointment. Then came the agony and torment. Finally, disgust and disdain. Along the way, there were the boos of vitriol, the cheers of sarcasm. For the Giants, inhabitants of Slam Francisco, Wrigley Field's cacophony sounded more like a symphony.

Matt Chapman hit two home runs, including the Giants' sixth grand slam in three weeks, and tied the San Francisco-era record with eight RBIs. Willy Adames had a pair of two-run homers. Casey Schmitt, not to be excluded, smashed two of his own. Rookie Jonah Cox, with the outcome no longer in doubt, hit his first career homer - off Cubs catcher Carson Kelly.

Those seven homers set the tone in the Giants' offensive masterclass, an 18-3 victory over the Cubs that secured a third straight victory.

With Chapman's grand slam, the Giants became the sixth team in MLB history to hit six grand slams in 20 days. San Francisco also became just the third team (since 1901) to hit a grand slam in every leg of a three-city road trip, joining the 2023 Houston Astros and 1983 California Angels. Coincidentally, new third base coach Gary Pettis was the third base coach in Houston that year.

This marks the fourth time that the Giants have hit seven home runs in a single game since moving to San Francisco, most recently on April 3, 2023 against the Chicago White Sox.

Adames gave the Giants a 2-0 lead in the top of the first with his farthest-hit ball of the season, turning a 99.5-mph four-seam fastball from the Cubs' Edward Cabrera into a 427-foot two-run home run that registered at 107.0 mph off the bat.

Cabrera rebounded from Adames' homer by retiring the side in the second and third, but the Giants' offense ambushed him for six runs in the fourth and knocked him out of the game in the process.

The heart of San Francisco's order set the table with station-to-station baseball. Luis Arraez laced a single, notching his latest multi-hit game, and Adames followed by drawing a walk. Jung Hoo Lee struck out swinging, but Bryce Eldridge kept the line moving with an infield single that deflected off Cabreara's glove. Then Chapman delivered the backbreaking blow.

With the bases full, Chapman sent a hanging curveball into the basket above the left-center field fence to deliver the Giants' latest grand slam, expanding the lead to 6-0. Before the shock of Chapman's slam could settle, Schmitt gave the Giants an eight-run advantage by smashing a two-run shot into the left-field bleachers.

San Francisco already had more than enough offense after Chapman's sacrifice fly in the fifth extended the lead to nine, but in the sixth, the Giants landed a devastating seven-run haymaker.

Arraez and Rafael Devers each drove in a run apiece, but the true knockout blows were from Adames and Chapman. Adames launched his second two-run homer to expand the Giants' lead to 13-0, and three batters later, Chapman absolutely torched a 432-foot, 109.6-mph three-run homer.

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This story was originally published June 5, 2026 at 7:17 PM.