Jung Hoo Lee salutes $151M Giants star after grand slam heroics

The Sam Francisco Giants turned things around in their four-game series after back-to-back wins against the Colorado Rockies to lead 2-1. A 6-3 win for the Giants on Saturday, sets up an intriguing series finale.

Saturday's win for San Francisco came on the back of star third baseman Matt Chapman's clutch performance. Champan smoked a grand slam in the bottom of the sixth inning to overturn the Rockies 3-2 lead in the game.

Chapman, who signed a six-year, $151 million contract extension in September last year, received a shoutout from his teammate Jung Hoo Lee after Saturday's heroics.

"C," Lee wrote in his Instagram story with a salute emoji, resharing the Giants' post for the infielder.

The Giants took an early 1-0 lead after Luis Matos' solo home run in the bottom third. The Rockies fought back with a three-run burst at the top of the inning to lead 3-1.

Jung Hoo Lee cut the deficit with an RBI single in the bottom sixth before Matt Chapman went deep for the seventh time this season to clear the bases and drive in four runs.

Matt Chapman's third career grand slam continued Giants' comeback habit

Matt Chapman entered Friday's game going 6-for-43 in his last 13 games. However, the five-time Gold Glove winner has now home runs in consecutive games and highlighted the importance of his hit.

“I felt like I’ve been hitting a lot of balls hard, even in the last month, and just finding gloves sometimes,” Chapman said. “I feel like I’ve been taking a lot of walks, hitting balls hard. It’s nice to have some balls go over the fence.”

Chapman's go-ahead grand slam helped the team to a 6-3 win as the Giants have come back from a two-run run deficit for the 11th time this season. Manager Bob Melvin reflected on the team's fighting spirit, saying:

“Obviously, [Chapman’s grand slam] was the hit of the game, but this is something we’ve been doing for a while now. If we do get down, we don’t really fret. We continue to push and grind on it.”

The consecutive wins improved the Giants to a 21-13 record this season. They will look to make it three wins in a row in the series finale on Sunday to keep up with the Los Angeles Dodgers (23-10) and the San Diego Padres (21-11) in an intense NL West.

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Chaitanya Prakash is an editor who covers US Sports at Sportskeeda. His first brush with sportswriting was in 2012 when the greatest football manager of all time, Sir Alex Ferguson, bid farewell to the beautiful game.

Although having started out professionally as a cricket writer in 2022, Chaitanya's curiosity and indiscriminate interest in all sports in general eventually introduced him to America's favorite pastime.

While Chaitanya's favorite player from the current crop is the dynamic Venezuelan Ronald Acuna Jr., his all-time favorite, however, is Pedro Martinez, for his self-belief and consistency. He also rates Jose Bautista's iconic bat flip in 2015 as his favorite moment in baseball history.

Chaitanya specializes in reporting on technical aspects of the game or analyzing patterns behind specific plays. He also likes pondering over players' self-assessments following the conclusion of a game as it helps him get an idea of how they think about the sport in general.

When not cheering for his favorites across sports, Chaitanya likes being transported to the past through a good war documentary or a historical documentary in general.

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