Bailey walks off Phillies in Giants’ most thrilling win of 2025

The Giants catcher hit a three-run, walk-off, inside-the-park home run to stun the Philadelphia Phillies — and the Oracle Park crowd — for a 4-3 win

No one in major league baseball had hit an inside-the-park walk-off home run since 2016. That is, until Patrick Bailey did it Tuesday night.

The San Francisco Giants came away with their fourth straight win on an improbable, ridiculous, and dramatic three-run inside-the-park home run from Patrick Bailey that gave them a 4-3 win. Bailey might have been the least likely Giant to hit a home run, or run fast enough to leg out an inside-the-parker, but his massive blast off Jordan Romano (1-4) caromed off the right-center field wall past two Phillies outfielders to score Casey Schmitt and pinch-runner Brett Wisely, then Bailey himself.

“I don’t think I’ve ever run that hard,” Bailey said in his post-game interview, struggling for breath after his sprint around the bases, and it didn’t get easier to breathe after Willy Adames drilled him with a celebratory Gatorade bath.

The Giants seemed destined to waste another solid pitching performance with bad hitting going into the bottom of the 9th, after Kyle Schwarber’s two-run blast into McCovey Cove gave the Phillies a 3-1 lead in the 7th.

The Giants threatened in the 8th by getting the first two runners on, but Adames struck out and Romano came in to retire Matt Chapman and Mike Yastrzemski. Then Casey Schmitt, quietly hitting .328 and slugging .552 since the beginning of June, led off the 9th with a double, followed by a one-out single from Wilmer Flores, who Wisely pinch-ran for. One pitch later, the game was over.

The wild deflection could have only happened at Oracle, but at the same time, Bailey’s blast would have been an outside-the-park home run in the other 29 ballparks.

Robbie Ray went 5 ²⁄₃ in his first start since being named an All-Star, giving up one run, four hits, and three walks while striking out five. He didn’t give up a hit until the third inning, when he got in trouble after Johan Rojas walked, Trea Turner singled, and they both pulled off a double steal. But Ray struck out Schwarber and got Bryce Harper to ground out, then stayed out of trouble until the 6th.

That’s when he hit Schwarber and the beefy DH stole his 9th base of the season. He pushed his luck trying to steal third on Bailey while Alec Bohm walked. That hurt the Phillies after Nick Castellanos followed with a single and Otto Kemp double him home to tie the game at 1-1 and chase Ray from the game.

It was quite a 10-minute stretch for Kemp, who also robbed Yaz with a diving catch the previous inning.

Schwarber was hard to stop Tuesday night unless he was stealing third. He had a two-run homer, a HBP, and a 9th-inning double off Scott Alexander. After Alexander walked Harper, Ryan Walker (2-3) came in and got a one-pitch win by getting Alec Bohm to ground to first with a single sinker.

The Giants got on the board first against Taijuan Walker when Yaz walked, Jung Hoo singled, and Dominic Smith drove in Yaz with a check-swing single to left. Look, Smith’s half-swing was far more effective than a lot of full swings from the Giants this season, they’ll take it.

Lee went 2-for-4 and now has 8 hits in his last six games. Rafael Devers had an all-or-nothing game with two walks and two strikeouts, taking exactly four swings in four plate appearances. Bailey went 2-for-4 and after the game, Bob Melvin thought the game might have helped Bailey turn the corner at the plate.

The June Swoon appears to be over. No Giants third baseman has been injured in over a week. And a catcher hit an inside-the-park home run for the first time since since 1926 — shout out to Bennie Tate of the Washington Senators.

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