MILWAUKEE (AP) — Willy Adames couldn’t have scripted a much better scenario for his return to Milwaukee to face his former team.
The San Francisco Giants shortstop just would have preferred a different ending.
Adames homered twice Friday as he played at American Family Field for the first time since leaving the Brewers, with one of his solo shots coming on the first pitch he saw.
“It felt like a movie,” Adames said afterward. “It felt like somebody wrote it in a book or something. That’s how it felt.”
But the Giants still lost the game 5-4 on William Contreras’ walk-off homer in the ninth.
Adames helped lead the Brewers to three playoff appearances from 2021-24 before the Giants signed him to a seven-year, $182 million contract. He remains enormously popular with Milwaukee fa