2025 stats: 160 G, 686 PA, .225 / .318 / .421, 30 HR, 87 RBI, 111 OPS+ (108 wRC+), .321 wOBA, 3.6 bWAR, 5 OAA (90th percentile)
Matt Chapman launched a Pierce Johnson curveball into the left field seats for a walk-off two run shot against the Braves on June 7th. Oracle Park went bezerk as Chapman rounded the bases and stomped on home plate as his teammates mobbed him. Willy Adames led the celebratory charge: first one over the railing as the baseball took flight, first one at the plate, first one with the cooler for the obligatory Gatorade soaking.
Adames had gone 0-for-3 that day with two strikeouts. The Giants were ten games above .500 at that point. They had just secured the series win against the Braves and won their fourth straight one-run game in a row, and in that stretch, their s