WASHINGTON — Heliot Ramos and Matt Chapman hit fifth-inning solo homers to break a 3-3 tie and the San Francisco Giants beat the Washington Nationals 7-4 on Wednesday night.
Ramos homered for the second straight game, and Chapman finished a triple short of the cycle for the Giants, who have won nine of 12. Mike Yastrzemski added a solo homer and an RBI triple.
San Francisco has homered 15 times over its past six games.
''It makes a huge impact,'' Giants manager Bob Melvin said of the power surge. ''When you're not having to string a ton of hits together, and situationally we haven't been great lately, so those homers have a big impact in the game, put a lot of energy in our dugout.''
Blake Snell (2-3), coming off a no-hitter against the A's in his last start, gave up three runs on four hits over six innings, retiring the last nine hitters he faced. He had allowed only two earned runs total in his five starts since coming off the injured list. Snell, who struck out eight and walked one, threw 93 pitches.
''Had to battle sweat today,'' Snell said of the hot, humid Washington weather. ''It was tough. Made pitching a lot harder than it needed to be, but found ways to make a quality start out of it, so that's good. Felt good, just had to battle a lot more because of that.''
The Nationals loaded the bases against closer Camilo Doval with one out in the bottom of the ninth, but Doval got Alex Call to ground into a double play for his 22nd save.
''We got the winning run up to the plate and I was just trying to move the line,'' said Call, who crashed into the wall making a leaping catch to end the top of the ninth. ''Didn't work out.''
