Logan Webb might need to finish what he starts Sunday afternoon when the San Francisco Giants attempt to avoid a three-game sweep in their home series against the Chicago Cubs.

Using eight doubles and four home runs, the Cubs have overpowered the Giants both at the plate and on the mound in the first two games of the set, winning 5-1 and 6-1.

Runs have been hard to come by for the opponent, however, since Webb returned from the injured list on May 29. He has limited the Colorado Rockies, Milwaukee Brewers and Washington Nationals to a total of two runs and nine hits over 19 1/3 innings.

The Giants have lost two of those games, including Monday against the Nationals when Webb (3-4, 3.88 ERA), having thrown 99 pitches, was pulled with a 3-1 lead after eight innings.

Reliever Keaton Winn then served up three runs in the top of the ninth, denying Webb a win and sending the Giants to a 4-3 defeat.

Giants manager Tony Vitello said the pitch count for a player who had missed 3 1/2 weeks with knee soreness played a major role in the decision to deny Webb a shot at what could have been just his fourth career complete game.

The veteran right-hander, who has gone 2-1 with a 4.01 ERA in six career appearances (five starts) against the Cubs, made one thing clear after the loss: the knee pain is ancient history.

“It’s been back to normal for the last two (starts),” he assured reporters after the game. “I feel a lot better now, so I’m just happy I can contribute.”

The Cubs have to be feeling pretty good about the way they’ve peppered the ball around San Francisco’s pitcher-friendly Oracle Park in the first two games of the series.

Nine different Cubs have hits in the series, including six with doubles and four with home runs.

Chicago likely will have to play the series finale without Seiya Suzuki, who injured his right knee trying to make a catch in the outfield Saturday night. Afterward, the club was calling the injury “discomfort.”

Suzuki has been one of the chief offensive contributors in the wins with three hits, including a pair of doubles.

Shooting for a third straight impressive pitching performance by their pitchers, the Cubs have scheduled left-hander Ryan Rolison (5-1, 2.25) in likely an opener role for Colin Rea (5-4, 5.19) in the series finale.

Rea is 1-4 with an 8.80 ERA in six career starts against the Giants. Rolison got the win by pitching a scoreless 10th inning on June 6 when the Cubs defeated the Giants 3-2.

While a bulk of the work probably will be done by Rea, all eyes will be on Rolison in the first inning or two, when he most likely will have to deal with San Francisco lefties Luis Arraez, Bryce Eldridge and Rafael Devers.

That trio has combined for eight of the Giants’ 11 hits in the series. Rolison has held left-handed hitters to a cumulative .182 average this season.

“Ryan’s been a really, really nice development on this team,” Cubs manager Craig Counsell said of the waiver claim from the Chicago White Sox. “He’s pitched in some enormous moments, and he’s delivered in those situations.”

— Field Level Media

After their first home series win since April, the Boston Red Sox go for a series sweep against the visiting Texas Rangers on Sunday evening.

The Red Sox are now 2-8-1 this season in home series and interim manager Chad Tracy knows if Boston is going to climb out of the American League East cellar, it will have to improve its performance at home.

“It’s been a minute (since a home series win) and it feels good,” Tracy said. “It’s no secret. We all know we have to play better at home. We played two really good ball games and now have a chance to go sweep a series. It feels good for the guys for sure.”

While Red Sox fans haven’t had a lot to cheer about at home, Ceddanne Rafaela changed that – for an afternoon anyway – with a clutch, two-run go-ahead single that came with two outs in the seventh to give Boston a 4-2 lead.

The 25-year-old center fielder ranks second on Boston in batting average (.291), doubles (14) and stolen bases (seven).

“Every win matters,” Rafaela said. “Especially at home. I want the fans to be happy, that’s what we are showing up for to try and accomplish.”

With two straight wins, Jarren Duran said Boston has to stay focused as it has the chance to get on a roll. Duran launched a two-run homer in the eighth to provide the Red Sox bullpen with breathing room.

“We are picking it up, which is good,” Duran said. “We just need to put our heads down and keep going.”

Boston starter Connelly Early (5-4, 3.30 ERA) is scheduled to make his first career appearance against the Rangers. The left-hander allowed two runs on five hits with four walks and six strikeouts over 4 2/3 innings in a 3-1 loss in his last start at the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday.

The Rangers will counter with Nathan Eovaldi (5-7, 4.26 ERA), who took the loss in a 5-3 setback at the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday. The veteran right-hander surrendered four runs on four hits with three walks and three strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings.

In 12 appearances, including 11 starts, against one of his former teams, Eovaldi is 4-1 with a 4.68 ERA. He’s racked up 46 strikeouts in 59 2/3 innings pitched.

After scoring just four runs in the first two games of the series – a 10-1 loss on Friday and a 6-3 setback on Saturday – Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said his club’s offense has to provide more support for its pitching staff.

“The challenge for us is providing more cushion on the offensive side for our starting pitchers,” Schumaker said.

Jake Burger provided some offense with a solo shot in the eighth, his 100th career home run. Burger leads the Rangers in homers (12) and RBIs (42).

Michael Helman also contributed to the Rangers’ offensive output with an RBI sacrifice fly that tied the game 2-2 in the fourth. But the center fielder, who has 30 at-bats in 15 games, was hit by a pitch on his right hand in the eighth, and after being checked out by the Rangers’ training staff at first base, he exited the game.

“Michael has multiple fractures in at least one finger, if not two,” Schumaker said. “He will be out for a bit, (the pitch) got him pretty good.”

-Field Level Media

The Tampa Bay Rays could become the answer to this trivia question: Who are the only two teams the Los Angeles Angels have swept in 2026?

The Angels will look to add the Rays to their short list of sweep victims — the Texas Rangers are the other — when they host them on Sunday afternoon in Anaheim, Calif.

Right-hander Grayson Rodriguez (2-2, 8.10 ERA) will make his sixth start since missing almost two years with assorted injuries. The Rays, who have lost four straight road games and eight of their last nine away from Florida, will use right-hander reliever Casey Legumina (2-1, 3.07 ERA) as an opener.

Rodriguez is 3-0 with a 2.16 ERA in four career starts against Tampa Bay with the last one coming in 2024 before he was shut down for the season on July 31. He missed all of 2025.

He picked up a no-decision in his most recent start, a 5-4 loss in 10 innings to the Houston Astros on Monday. He allowed three runs (two earned) on six hits over 5 1/3 innings, walked two and struck out six while averaging 97 mph with his four-seam fastball.

Legumina will be making his second career start. He is 1-1 with a 1.80 ERA in eight career appearances against Los Angeles.

Los Angeles tied a season-high four-game win streak with a 8-0 victory on Saturday, pounding out 15 hits in the process. Jo Adell went 4-for-5 with a double and three runs, and Jose Siri smacked a two-run homer for the Angels.

It was the third four-hit game of Adell’s career and second in a week.

The Angels, 12-8 over their last 20 games, will be trying for their first five-game win streak in over a year. The last time that happened was May 16-23, 2025, when they won eight in a row.

Jose Soriano, hit in the right chest area by a 105 mph comebacker by Jonathan Aranda in the first inning, picked up his eighth win, allowing three hits and striking out five over five innings. He left after throwing just 76 pitches.

“We just wanted to be really cautious,” Angels manager Kurt Suzuki said. “It was smoked right off his chest. He gave us five good innings, and we felt like that was the right time to get him out of there.”

Soriano said it was actually his left hip, not his chest, that was bothering him.

“I was trying to get away from the ball, and when I tried, I just felt my leg (get) stuck,” Soriano told The Orange County Register. “That’s when I started feeling a little bit sore. And every inning, it felt a little bit worse.”

Soriano said he doesn’t expect the hip injury to sideline him.

“I feel I can be good for my next outing,” he said. “We’ll just keep working on that and I’m gonna be good.”

Tampa Bay managed just five singles but also walked four times in Saturday’s loss. The Rays were 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position and have scored just three runs on 12 hits in the first two games.

“Our offense is going through it a little bit right now,” Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash admitted. “We’ll come out of it. We just need to find a way to get a couple of those big hits in bunches.”

–Field Level Media