2025 San Francisco Giants

2025 San Francisco Giants / Franchise: San Francisco Giants / BR Team Page

Record: 81-81, Finished 3rd in NL Western Division (2025 NL)

Managed by Bob Melvin

Coaches: Garvin Alston, Oscar Bernard, Alex Burg, Pat Burrell, Ryan Christenson, Mark Hallberg, J.P. Martinez, Damon Minor, Taira Uematsu and Matt Williams

Ballpark: Oracle Park

Season Highlights

The 2025 San Francisco Giants kept a bizarre streak alive by starting Heliot Ramos in left field on Opening Day, which took place on March 27th against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ballpark. Ramos was the 19th consecutive different player to start the season at the position for the Giants, dating back to 2007, the final year of Barry Bonds. That tied the St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles for the longest such streak in major league history, having done so also in left field from 1937 to 1955 (while also relocating during the streak). The Giants were bound to set a new record, since Michael Conforto, who had started in LF in 2024, was no longer with the team. Incidentally, the Giants went on to win the game, 6-4. The Giants won four of their first five games, with Ramos playing the hero as he collected an extra-base hit and scored a run in each of the games, but that still left the Giants in third place in their own division, as both the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres were still unbeaten at that point. By the end of the season's second week, on April 6th. the Giants were left alone on top of the standings, as both the Dodgers and the Padres had now lost two games, while San Francisco was at 8-1. They were now on a seven-game winning streak and it was their best start since 2003, when they had started the season 13-1 on their way to winning 100 games and a division title.

The Giants went 19-12 in March and April, but fell back to a 13-14 mark in May. However, they put together a seven-game winning streak starting on June 4th, with the first six of these wins being by a single run. In fact, their streak of one-run games was eight, as before embarking on the winning streak, they had lost their previous two games by one run, both against the Padres and in extra innings. The winning streak brought them back to within a half-game of first place on June 11th. They managed a first-place tie two days later, but it marked a high point, as they went 4-11 the rest of the month and had fallen to 8 games back of the lead when it ended. It may just have been a coincidence, but their fall began after the acquisition of slugger Rafael Devers in a blockbuster trade with the Boston Red Sox on June 15th - the Giants gave up two minor leaguers and two pitchers who were not contributing much up to that point in Kyle Harrison and Jordan Hicks. It was not that Devers was a flop either, as he hit as well with San Francisco as he had with Boston. They followed their June swoon with another tough month in July, going 9-15 and were largely written off by that point. One clear sign of that was that they traded away OF Mike Yastrzemski, who had become a team icon since making his big league debut with the Giants in 2019, at the trade deadline.

Now out of the spotlight, the Giants played decently in August, finishing at 14-14, but that was largely due to winning seven of their last eight games. They had been in 4th place, 12 games back on August 22nd, but by also winning their first three games in September, they managed to cut that deficit to 7 1/2 games and were two games above .500. While a division title was not in the cards, a run at the final wild card spot was feasible. The first few games of September featured a bench-clearing brawl against the Colorado Rockies on September 2nd, when Devers stopped to admire a 1st-inning home run and all hell broke loose before he could circle the bases. The next day, the Giants completed their sweep of the Rockies with two homers from 3B Matt Chapman, who had been at the center of the fracas the night before and had earned both an ejection and a one-game suspension as a result (the only reason he was in the line-up is that he had decided to appeal the suspension). With Chapman leading the charge and rookie Drew Gilbert, whose arrival was largely responsible for Yastrzemski's departure, also going deep, the 10-8 win marked the 17th consecutive game in which the Giants had homered. It was their longest such streak since the team had moved to the Bay Area in 1958, and second-longest in franchise history (the 1947 New York Giants had homered in 19 consecutive contests). They hit two more long balls in an 8-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on September 5th, extending their streak to 18 games.

Awards and Honors

• All-Stars: Robbie Ray, Randy Rodriguez and Logan Webb
• NL Gold Glove: Patrick Bailey (C) and Logan Webb (P)

Further Reading

• Maria Guardado: "Giants break out oppo pop in sweep-capping walk-off", mlb.com, April 7, 2025. [1]
• María Guardado: "Giants' new City Connect jerseys a nod to San Francisco music scene", mlb.com, April 9, 2025. [2]
• María Guardado: "Giants win 10th of last 11, make SF HR history behind Chapman's monster night", mlb.com, September 4, 2025. [3]
• Sarah Langs: "The incredible Giants Opening Day streak that goes back to Bonds", mlb.com, March 27, 2025. [4]

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