The result was the Giants’ worst loss of the season, an 11-5 blowout at the hands of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night that knocked them back down to second place in the NL West. Before a ridiculous ninth inning, San Francisco was looking at its worst margin of defeat this season.

Yamamoto tossed Schmitt a 1-1 splitter; Schmitt sent the offering towards Glendale. Schmitt’s grand slam wasn’t just his second home run of the season, but his second home run since stepping in for Chapman. In four games as San Francisco’s temporary start, Schmitt is 6-for-15 (.400) with the aforementioned two homers and seven RBIs.

The first Dodgers-Giants series of the season ends with an evening game on Sunday night at Dodger Stadium. Dustin May makes his second start of the week for the home team, with left-hander Kyle Harrison on the mound for San Francisco.

The Giants were 1-5 at Dodger Stadium last season and lost nine of 13 in the season series to their archrivals.

The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants will break a National League West deadlock on Saturday night, when they play the second in a three-game series at Dodger Stadium.

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto revealed his thoughts on his performance against the San Francisco Giants on Friday.