San Diego Padres at San Francisco Giants: Final Score & Recap
Line Score
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| SF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
The Story
The San Diego Padres handed the San Francisco Giants a 5-1 defeat at Oracle Park on May 6, 2026, in a game that was never particularly close once San Diego seized control through the middle innings. The DiamondIQ model entered the night giving the home Giants a 31 percent chance of winning, and while that number briefly ticked upward when Rafael Devers connected on a solo home run off Matt Waldron in the bottom of the fifth to pull San Francisco within one, the model's estimate for a Giants win ultimately fell to zero percent by game's end. San Diego's pitching staff, led by Waldron and supplemented by Adrian Houser and Adrian Morejon, combined to hold the Giants to three hits, and Houser's contribution was particularly significant, his work generating a WPA of plus-20.3 percent for the Padres.
The decisive sequence came in the seventh inning, when Ty France delivered the single most impactful play of the night, a triple off Matt Gage that swung win probability 24.4 percentage points in San Diego's favor. That blow was the centerpiece of a two-run seventh that pushed the Padres' lead to three, effectively sealing the outcome. Xander Bogaerts added a home run off Ryan Walker in the eighth for an additional 12.4 percentage-point swing, and Gavin Sheets had earlier set the tone with a solo shot off Adrian Houser in the fourth worth plus-11.6 percent. The Giants' best chance to claw back came in the seventh when Freddy Fermin's flyout off Keaton Winn erased 11.3 percentage points of San Diego's cushion, but the moment passed without damage.
Among individual performers, France finished as the game's top batter by WPA at plus-24.3 percent with an RE24 of plus-1.3, his triple proving the fulcrum of the Padres' winning effort. Bogaerts followed at plus-12.4 percent with an RE24 of plus-1.6, and Devers paced the Giants at plus-10.2 percent despite his team's loss. San Diego's final line of five runs on six hits with no errors against the Giants' one run on three hits with one error reflected a clean, efficient performance on the road.