Victor Bericoto’s 385-foot blast provided the lone run in a 1-0 victory for San Francisco against the Milwaukee Brewers.
The San Francisco Giants have struggled through a difficult season. They have a 24-38 record, leaving little room for error almost every night.
Against the Milwaukee Brewers, they found enough yesterday.
The difference came from one swing by a rookie and another dominant outing from Logan Webb.
Webb gave San Francisco everything it could have asked for on the mound, carrying a no-hit bid deep into the game and keeping the Brewers off balance throughout the night.
Offensively, the Giants generated almost nothing.
But one opportunity was enough.
Victor Bericoto entered the fifth inning having spent just 13 days in the major leagues. Facing Brewers starter Robert Gasser, he worked the count to 2-0 before driving a 385-foot opposite-field home run into the Giants bullpen in right-center field before it bounced into the stands.
It was the first home run of his major league career.
It also became the only run of the game.
That swing placed Bericoto into an unexpected piece of franchise history.
Wednesday marked only the third time in Giants history that the club won a 1-0 game on a player’s first career home run.
The previous examples came on June 10, 1954, when Bill Taylor homered against the Milwaukee Braves, and again on August 7, 1991, when Darren Lewis delivered a leadoff home run in a winning effort against the Atlanta Braves.
More than three decades separated each occurrence.
Bericoto joined that group less than two weeks into his major-league career.
His moment would not have mattered without Webb’s performance.
The Giants ace retired the first 15 hitters he faced before issuing a leadoff walk in the sixth inning.
Milwaukee finally broke up the no-hit bid in the seventh when a one-out single narrowly got past a diving Matt Chapman at third base.
Webb completed seven scoreless innings while surrendering one hit with four strikeouts and a walk.
He also generated 12 groundball outs and recorded 22 called strikes across 95 pitches.
In a game decided by one run, he controlled nearly every inning.
The bullpen finished the job.
Erik Miller handled the eighth before Keaton Winn entered in the ninth and worked around a leadoff double by Christian Yelich. Winn struck out the next hitter and induced a game-ending ground ball to secure his second career save.
The victory was only San Francisco’s second in its last nine games.
The standings remain difficult and the climb back into contention remains steep.
Still, Bericoto delivered something the Giants have not had enough of this season.
A memorable moment.
A first major league home run is always meaningful.
Doing it to decide a 1-0 game and joining franchise history makes it something even bigger.
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