Adames went 1-for-4 with a solo home run in a 7-5 win over Atlanta on Wednesday.
Adames smacked his 12th homer of the season in the second inning off JR Ritchie with a deep drive to left field. The veteran shortstop has now homered in back-to-back games, but he still has just three hits in his past 36 at-bats and is batting .170 through 14 games in June.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Back in lineup Friday
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Adames (lower body) will start at shortstop and bat sixth Friday against the Cubs, Evan Webeck of the California Post reports.
Adames sat out the Giants' last game Wednesday due to pain in his lower half, but he's been cleared to return to action for Friday's series opener against the Cubs. The 30-year-old backstop has slugged three home runs in nine games since the start of June but is 0-for-17 with nine strikeouts in his last four contests.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Nursing lower-half injury
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Giants manager Tony Vitello said that Adames is out of the lineup for Wednesday's game against the Nationals after experiencing some lower-half pain from his "knee to hip" during Tuesday's 6-3 loss, John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Despite dealing with some discomfort, Adames still played the full nine innings Tuesday, finishing 0-for-4 with a walk. The veteran shortstop will hit the bench for just the second time all season Wednesday, but Vitello indicated that Adames shouldn't be headed for any further absences. The Giants are hoping that getting a game off from starting coupled with Thursday's off day will provide enough time for Adames to recover from the issue and rejoin the lineup Friday versus the Cubs.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Rare day off
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Adames is absent from the lineup for Wednesday's game versus the Nationals.
Adames will get just his second day off of the season and first since April after going 0-for-17 with a 1:9 BB:K over his last four contests. Casey Schmitt will fill in at shortstop for the Giants while Adames gets a breather.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Two-homer effort in win
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Adames went 2-for-2 with two walks, two home runs, four runs scored and four RBI in Friday's 18-3 rout of the Cubs.
Three different Giants hitters launched two long balls on the afternoon, with Adames' pair coming in the first inning off Edward Cabrera and in the sixth off Hoby Milner. Adames has 11 homers on the season, with eight of them coming in his last 17 games -- a stretch in which the shortstop is batting .297 (19-for-64) with 16 RBI and 17 runs.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Blasts grand slam
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Adames went 3-for-5 with a grand slam and a walk in Sunday's victory over the Rockies.
Adames' three-hit effort was highlighted by a 108.8 mph grand slam that extended the Giants' lead in the fifth inning. After mustering just a .553 OPS across 25 games in April, the shortstop slashed .292/.325/.504 with 13 extra-base hits (five homers), 17 RBI, 16 runs and a stolen base over 28 contests in May. His season line now sits at .243/.281/.426 with 26 extra-base hits (eight homers), 23 RBI, 28 runs and a stolen base through 58 games.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Tallies two doubles in loss
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Adames went 2-for-4 with two doubles and a run scored in Wednesday's 3-2 loss to the Diamondbacks.
Adames doubled in the second inning before coming around to score, and he added another two-bagger in the eighth. The 30-year-old shortstop has logged multiple extra-base hits in back-to-back games and has safely reached base in 16 of his last 17 outings, slashing .343/.387/.629 with 13 runs scored, 12 RBI and 11 extra-base hits, including four homers, in 75 plate appearances during that span. Overall, he's slashing .243/.282/.423 with 27 runs scored, 18 RBI, seven long balls and a stolen base across 234 plate appearances this season.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Belts homer in loss
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Adames went 1-for-3 with a solo home run and a walk in Tuesday's 5-3 loss to the Diamondbacks.
Adames is nursing a bruised thumb, but it didn't cost him a start after his early exit Monday. The shortstop has homered in consecutive contests and is batting .400 (16-for-40) over his last 10 games. For the season, he's batting .240 with a .668 OPS, five homers, 15 RBI, 19 runs scored, 14 doubles and a stolen base across 48 games. Adames doesn't often maintain a high batting average, but he should settle in around his current season-long mark once this hot streak fizzles out.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Back in starting nine
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Adames (thumb) will start at shortstop and bat fifth Tuesday against the Diamondbacks, Shayna Rubin of the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Adames suffered a bruised right thumb after misplaying a groundball in Monday's game, but it won't be enough to keep him from starting Tuesday's contest. The 30-year-old slugger has been starting to turn things around at the plate after a slow start to the season, slashing .405/.436/.568 with eight RBI and four runs scored across his last nine games.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Nursing bruised thumb
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Adames has been diagnosed with a bruised right thumb, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports.
It's not clear whether Adames will be in the starting lineup for Tuesday's matchup. The Giants figure to re-evaluate the injury in the morning to determine whether he can take the field for the second game of the series in Arizona.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Knocks three hits in win
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Adames went 3-for-5 with a double and two RBI in Saturday's 6-4 win over the Athletics.
Adames has turned things around lately with six multi-hit efforts over his last nine games. He's gone 15-for-39 (.385) in that span, though just three of those hits have gone for extra bases. The shortstop is batting .235 with a .628 OPS, three home runs, 13 RBI, 15 runs scored, 14 doubles and a stolen base over 45 contests. Adames is a three-time 30-homer man, but he needs to convert some of those two-baggers into over-the-wall power. to get close to that production again.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Logs two hits in loss
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Adames went 2-for-4 with a double in Friday's 5-2 loss to the Athletics.
Adames singled in the fourth inning and doubled in the sixth, marking his 13th two-bagger of the season. The 30-year-old shortstop has recorded five multi-hit performances over the last eight games, batting .353 with five RBI, two runs scored and two doubles in 35 plate appearances during that span. Overall, he's now slashing .225/.258/.348 with 15 runs scored, 11 RBI, three long balls and a stolen base across 186 plate appearances this season.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Multi-hit effort in victory
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Adames went 2-for-4 with a run scored in Tuesday's 6-2 win over the Dodgers.
Adames singled in the seventh inning before coming around to score, and he added another base hit in the eighth. The 30-year-old shortstop has recorded at least two hits in four of the last five games, batting .391 with five RBI, two runs scored and a double across 23 plate appearances during that span. Overall, he's slashing .222/.253/.347 with 15 runs scored, 11 RBI, three long balls and a stolen base in 174 plate appearances this season.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Tallies three RBI
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Adames went 2-for-5 with three RBI in Monday's 9-3 win over the Dodgers.
Adames joined the offensive outburst by delivering a two-RBI single in the seventh inning before driving in another run with a single in the ninth frame. Monday marked the shortstop's first three-RBI effort of the season, as he has still struggled to a .215/.247/.344 slash line with three homers, 12 doubles, 11 RBI, 12 runs and a stolen base through 40 games. Adames has now recorded multiple hits in three of the past four contests and will look to continue trending upward after a difficult start to the campaign.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Receiving first day off
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Adames is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Marlins, Shayna Rubin of the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
It's the first day off this season for Adames, who has gone 1-for-27 with 13 strikeouts over the past six contests. Christian Koss will step in at shortstop while Jung Hoo Lee moves up to the leadoff spot.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Multi-hit effort in win
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Adames went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and a double in Friday's 10-5 win over the Nationals.
Adames singled in the second inning before coming around to score. The 30-year-old shortstop also hit a double and added another run in the fourth. He has delivered six multi-hit performances over the last 10 games, batting .350 with eight doubles, eight runs scored, three RBI and two long balls across 43 plate appearances during that span. Overall, he's slashing .269/.321/.513 with 10 runs scored, six RBI and three home runs in 84 plate appearances over 20 games this season.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Stays hot in Tuesday's loss
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Adames went 2-for-4 with a solo home run in Tuesday's 2-1 loss to the Reds.
All the game's scoring came on solo homers, with Adames accounting for the Giants' only run when he hammered a Brady Singer sweeper over the left-field fence in the fifth inning. The shortstop has racked up five multi-hit performances over the last seven games with seven doubles and two homers among his 11 hits, but somehow he has only three RBI to show for that impressive surge as the rest of the San Francisco offense struggles around him.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Goes yard Friday
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Adames went 2-for-5 with a solo home run, a double, an additional RBI and a strikeout in Friday's win over the Orioles.
Adames snapped his eight-game homerless drought with a shot to right-center field in the top of the third inning, and he'd later add another RBI with a double in the top of the fourth. The veteran shortstop extended his multi-hit streak to four games, and all but one of those hits have gone for extra bases. He's hitting .471 with a 1.500 OPS over that four-game stretch, which is a marked improvement over the .184 average and .560 OPS he posted in the first 10 games of the campaign.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Multi-hit effort in defeat
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Adames went 2-for-4 with two doubles, a walk and a run scored in Monday's 6-4 loss to the Phillies.
After going 1-for-18 with three walks and an RBI over his previous five games, Adames bounced back Monday. The veteran shortstop hit a leadoff double in the third inning before coming around to score. He added another double in the ninth, marking his second multi-hit effort of the season. Over 11 games, Adames is slashing .214/.283/.381 with three RBI, three runs scored and one home run across 46 plate appearances.
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Giants' Willy Adames: Busts slump with big game Tuesday
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Adames went 4-for-5 with a home run, a double, two total runs and two total RBI in a 9-3 win against the Padres on Tuesday.
Adames had been very quiet coming into Tuesday, going 2-for-15 with six strikeouts and no RBI over his first four games. The veteran shortstop wasted no time erasing the poor start from memory, going deep to left field to lead off the contest. Adames added an infield single in the second inning, an RBI single in the sixth and a double in the eighth to round out his night. He bumped his season OPS from .266 to .800 with the performance.
