ARLINGTON, Texas—Michael Conforto hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the seventh inning, Wilmer Flores went deep twice for his first multi-homer game of the season and the San Francisco Giants beat the Texas Rangers 5–2 on Friday night.
Logan Webb (5–5) won for the first time in four starts after allowing two runs and five hits with six strikeouts and no walks over seven innings while throwing 94 pitches.
With the game tied at 2, Conforto launched a 3–2 cutter from David Robertson (2–3) over Texas’ bullpen in right-center with one out.
Heliot Ramos added an RBI single for San Francisco in the eighth. He has been on base nine times in the last two games with one homer, four singles and four walks.
Camilo Doval pitched a perfect ninth for his 10th save in 12 opportunities for the Giants, who have won two in a row following a season-worst six-game losing streak.
The Rangers have lost three of their last four.
The game pitted Rangers manager Bruce Bochy, who last season brought home the club’s first World Series title, against the franchise that he led to three championships.
Flores has three home runs in two games, including a grand slam at Arizona on Wednesday, among his four homers this season. It was his sixth career multihomer game.
Flores had a chance to extend a 2–0 lead in the fifth, batting with the bases loaded and two outs.
But Texas’ Jonathan Hernández, who relieved starter Michael Lorenzen one batter earlier and struck out Jorge Soler, got Flores to chase an 0–2 slider low and outside for strike three to end the threat.
The Rangers then tied it at 2 in the fifth on Robbie Grossman’s sacrifice fly to score Nathaniel Lowe and Ezequiel Duran’s single up the middle against a drawn-in infield to bring home Wyatt Langford.
